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This Strange Eventful History
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Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny. When weathered old sailor Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents, it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. When Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest, where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold.
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A reflective adventure
- De Tad Davis en 09-12-17
De: Robert Louis Stevenson, y otros
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The Jane Austen Collection
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, y otros
- Duración: 45 h
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Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.
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Not a faithful rendition
- De Anne McClain en 12-13-20
De: Jane Austen
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-15
De: Bram Stoker
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Yellow Face
- A Semi-autobiographical Comedy
- De: David Henry Hwang
- Narrado por: Daniel Dae Kim (CK), Ashley Park, Wendell Pierce, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 44 m
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Winner of an Obie and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, Yellow Face is as timely as ever, wrestling with issues of cultural appropriation, complicity, and artistic freedom. It’s brought to life in this audio-only revival by a stunning all-star cast (many playing themselves) led by Daniel Dae Kim.
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Funny, great audible performance, and good dialogue.
- De Ed the Canadian en 05-04-24
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Point Nemo
- De: Jeremy Robinson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At its core is a dead zone, devoid of life, where government agencies crash their obsolete satellites and space stations, confident they won't harm a soul. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it's here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist studying living space dust called xylem, finds herself marooned. Julie's only hope for rescue lies in the hands of her estranged father, Dr. Finn Maddern, a renowned mycologist.
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Totally original-totally feasible!
- De Lawrence Tate en 04-10-24
De: Jeremy Robinson
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The Rip
- De: Holly Craig
- Narrado por: Carly Foxx, Shalom Brune-Franklin
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise. When a child vanishes on the night of the party, their perfect island weekend is ripped apart. Even paradise harbours murky secrets… Has he been taken? Has he drowned? In the panic to find any trace, Penny casts about for someone to blame—even if that person is her own daughter, Rosie. Even clear waters descend to pitch black.
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Intriguing, Engaging, AND BEST NARATORS EVER
- De Hadassah en 03-12-24
De: Holly Craig
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Luciana is the baby of her large Colombian American family. And despite usually being relegated to the sidelines, she now finds herself the voice of reason in the middle of their unexpected crisis. Her older sister, Mari, is away at college and reduced to a mere listening ear on the other end of their many phone calls, so when South Florida residents are ordered to evacuate before a hurricane, it’s up to Luciana to deal with her eccentric grandmother, Abue, who’s refusing to leave. But the storm isn’t the only danger.
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The relationship between Luciana and Abue ♥️♥️♥️
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Long After We Are Gone
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Told in alternating viewpoints, Long After We Are Gone is a searing portrait on the power of family and letting go of things that no longer serve you, exploring the burden of familial expectations, the detriment of miscommunication, and the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children.
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- 05-17-24
Be Prepared for a Jarring Narration
I had been looking forward to listening to this new book by Claire Messud, both for her reputation as a writer and for the subject matter. I purchased the audiobook on the day of publication. Cassandra Campbell has a lovely voice, and I enjoyed her reading of Where the Crawdads Sings. However. A big however. In this book, the characters are multinational, many of them multilingual, with complex personal histories in Beirut, Algiers, Salonica, Paris, Poland, and elsewhere. Understandably, this presents a challenge in voicing the different characters with regard to their accents. Unfortunately, Ms. Campbell, apparently with the assent of the recording's director, has opted for an unbelievably heavy approach, especially with the French accent for the central characters. The "zeess" and "zatt" for "this" and "that" are so thick you can cut them with a couteau - to the point of parody. This is apparent very early in the book with the two young French pied-noir children, a brother and sister, who are in exile in Algiers, and who speak to each other in such heavy French accents that you cannot avoid thinking of Loony Tunes' Pepe Le Pew. Such exaggerated accents are absurd for a brother and sister who would of course hear each other entirely without accent. A light touch to indicate character and native tongue would have been so welcome - a masterful example is David Pittu's narration of Fernando Aramburu's "Homeland", where the characters toggle between Spanish and Basque. Unfortunately, Ms. Campbell seems to treat this narration as an opportunity to demonstrate her prowess with various accents. This range would be amusing, even impressive, as an audition tape, but as the narration for a serious work of fiction, it is impossible to ignore the overkill, and has just about spoiled the book for me. I hope it does not for you, but I recommend listening to the sample before purchasing. I'm sorry to write such a negative review, but this could so easily have been avoided with a firmer hand from the production staff.
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- 05-26-24
Riveting , Elegiac, perfectly Evocative
Beautiful in every way. The characters are deeply portrayed . The historical moments intensely, gently vivid .
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- Bluebird
- 05-21-24
accents drove me nuts
I read great reviews for this book and was anxious to download it. I have two problems with it. First, the accents are a serious distraction, I've stopped the audio at times to get a break from them. Second the book is so darn earnest.
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