Meet Simon Vance
Vance’s performances have a pied piper quality, able to keep the listener
enthralled over the long haul, no matter the type of story.
Top Performances
Greatest Hits
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Children of Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
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great story, more production problems
- De Ziya en 04-22-08
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God Emperor of Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.
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Almost as good as the original
- De Joel D Offenberg en 12-03-09
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Dune Messiah
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?
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Good-not-great book, not as fond of the narration
- De Joel D Offenberg en 11-13-09
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, y otros
- Duración: 35 h y 5 m
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The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century - and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world". In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts - all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirot's skill and "little gray cells".
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Excellent! (List of Narrators)
- De Margaret C. en 02-25-22
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Children of Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
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great story, more production problems
- De Ziya en 04-22-08
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God Emperor of Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.
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Almost as good as the original
- De Joel D Offenberg en 12-03-09
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Dune Messiah
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?
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Good-not-great book, not as fond of the narration
- De Joel D Offenberg en 11-13-09
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, y otros
- Duración: 35 h y 5 m
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The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century - and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world". In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts - all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirot's skill and "little gray cells".
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Excellent! (List of Narrators)
- De Margaret C. en 02-25-22
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Heretics of Dune
- Dune Chronicles, Book 5
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Scott Brick
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.
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Mixed Feelings
- De John en 12-11-08
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Chapterhouse Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.
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Great Story! Horrible way to compile a narration.
- De Chris Carl en 05-23-14
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Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- De Matthew Salvo en 07-01-21
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
- The Heirloom Collection
- De: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 58 h y 4 m
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.
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A Table of Contents & Audible Part/Chapter Notes
- De SantaFePainter en 11-18-13
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Interview with the Vampire
- De: Anne Rice
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . . He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless," life....
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New Editions!
- De A. Sentoni en 06-04-11
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North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
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An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
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The Burning White
- Lightbringer, Book 5
- De: Brent Weeks
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 39 h y 4 m
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In the stunning conclusion to the epic, New York Times best-selling Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, kingdoms clash as Kip must finally escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?
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An Actual Review, after I got done listening to it
- De The Story Adict en 10-26-19
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Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition)
- 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones
- De: George R. R. Martin
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 26 h y 24 m
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Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen - the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria - took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
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150 years of Westeros history
- De Kingsley en 11-22-18
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The Wolf of the North Trilogy
- Wolf of the North, Books 1-3
- De: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 32 h y 22 m
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Wolf of the North: It has been generations since the Northlands have seen a hero worthy of the title. Many have made the claim, but few have lived to defend it. Timid, weak, and bullied, Wulfric is as unlikely a candidate as there could be. Jorundyr's Path: Jorundyr's Path is walked only by the brave. As Wulfric pursues Adalhaid's Blood Debt, he soon learns that the path to revenge is never easy. The Blood Debt: A blade fit for a hero. An army for a tyrant. A reckoning long awaited, and a tale reaching its end.
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Could have been so much more, a classic even
- De Listener en 01-14-23
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The Queen of the Damned
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3
- De: Anne Rice
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
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In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead.
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Concludes book 2
- De Thomas J. Foote en 01-02-16
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The Blinding Knife
- De: Brent Weeks
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 24 h y 14 m
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Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left - now he has less than one. With 50,0000 refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole 16 years ago.
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Much Better
- De David S. en 09-16-12
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The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- De: Anne Rice
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 21 h y 40 m
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Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
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Finally unabridged! Excellently read, great listen
- De Patricia en 06-29-11
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Murder Your Employer
- The McMasters Guide to Homicide
- De: Rupert Holmes
- Narrado por: Neil Patrick Harris, Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate.
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Great idea; not so great book
- De Michael Ferris en 03-06-23
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The Black Prism
- De: Brent Weeks
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
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Nice first book. slow start
- De Amazon Customer en 12-13-16
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The Broken Eye
- De: Brent Weeks
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 29 h y 33 m
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Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will face a master of shadows as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. With Teia and Karris, Kip will have to use all his wits to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels, and an ascendant order of hidden assassins called The Broken Eye.
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BY ORHOLAM'S BALLS THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!!!
- De Bakerman1016 en 05-14-17
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The Blood Mirror
- De: Brent Weeks
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
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When does an empire fall? The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four—and those are falling before the White King's armies. Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison Gavin may not be alone.
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Filler novel
- De Jason Campbell en 11-03-16
Editor's Pick
"A perfect match for the author and material."
"Sure, this is a great book with a phenomenal heroine, but set that aside—this is a truly special listen. Simon Vance’s delivery is that of a journalist letting you in on an incredible story over a beer, a perfect match for the author and material. He creates a range of subtly delineated voices for characters from all over Europe. And the way he pronounces Swedish names and places is so perfect, you’ll find yourself absentmindedly repeating them to yourself weeks after you finish listening."