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Title: The Actual

Author: Saul Bellow

Narrator: A. C. Fellner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: Audible Modern Vanguard

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In this wise and dazzling work of fiction, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and tragically about the tenacity of first love. The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere: not in the Chicago orphanage where he was sent by his mother, not in high school (too brainy), not even on the streets, where his vaguely Asian features set him apart from the rest of the pack.

Behind his stoic mask, Harry harbors some intense feelings for a certain woman. That woman - the object of some 40 years' passion - is Amy Wustrin, a twice-divorced interior designer who's walked through her share of life's ups and downs. Thanks to Sigmund, she walks unexpectedly into Harry's life. And this time he's not about to let her go.

As an added bonus, when you purchase any of our Audible Modern Vanguard productions of Saul Bellow's books, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview.

Critic Reviews:

"A mature distillation of Mr. Bellow's work...a gem." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Love this late Bellow

This is a small thing, almost throwaway for Bellow, but it's him, brilliant and funny as always. Arch plot points, but not implausible, mention of Donald Trump, and a line you'd only get from Bellow: "Shoot me in the heart." You'll have to read the book for context that makes the line work.

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Title: Snow White

Author: Donald Barthelme

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Donald Barthelme's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview where James Atlas interviews Tracy Daugherty about the life and work of Donald Barthelme begins as soon as the audiobook ends.

Critic Reviews:

"A staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays....An amusingly refurbished fairy tale novel of the absurd." (Time)

"We hear the singing dwarfs of our childhood, and the voice of a splendid writer who knows how to turn spiritual dilemmas into logic, and how to run that logic into comedy, which is the true wised-up story of our time." (Newsweek)

Members Reviews:

Excellent performance

Hi! I just wanted to say a big thank you to the people involved into making this audio recording of Snow White. Performance just could not been any better. Great job!

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Title: Drs. P leest 3 eigen verhalen

Subtitle: o.a. Sven de Bevrijder plus enkele Olleke Bollekes

Author: Drs. P

Narrator: Drs. P

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: First Monkey Media

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Dutch.

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Title: Between the Assassinations

Subtitle: A Novel in Stories

Author: Aravind Adiga

Narrator: Harsh Nayyar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 106 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A twelve-year-old boy named Ziauddin, a gofer at a tea shop near the railway station, is enticed into wrongdoing because a fair-skinned stranger treats him with dignity and warmth. George D'Souza, a mosquito-repellent sprayer, elevates himself to gardener and then chauffeur to the lovely, young Mrs. Gomes, and then loses it all when he attempts to be something more. A little girl's first act of love for her father is to beg on the street for money to support his drug habit. A privileged schoolboy sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. And the loneliest member of the Marxist-Maoist Party of India falls in love with the one young woman, in the poorest part of town, whom he cannot afford to wed.

A blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The White Tiger, showcases the most beloved aspects of Aravind Adiga's writing to brilliant effect and enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.

Critic Reviews:

"As a portrait of India, it's far richer and more nuanced [than

The White Tiger], encompassing the perspectives of Muslims, Hindus and Christians; rich and poor; young and old; upper caste and lower. ... Indians may not always like what Adiga has to say, but their future depends on his freedom to keep saying it." (

Newsweek)"With richly detailed descriptions of life in Kittur, from the cart puller to the journalist to the scion of the town's richest man, Adiga achieves in a dozen pages what many novels fail to do in hundreds: convincingly render individual desire, disappointment and survival. ... In many ways, the vignettes in

Between the Assassinations flesh out the question at the heart of

The White Tiger: Where is the justice in one man ruling another simply though the accident of his birth? (

San Francisco Chronicle)"The hearts of his characters are where Adiga reveals the greatest depth and breadth, spanning the ages from youth to late maturity. ... Adiga creates these, and other distinctive characters, with the ease of a god, and deftly tells their sometimes comical, often tragic stories against the backdrop of an often corrupt, and sometimes lovely South Asian world." (

Dallas Morning News)

Members Reviews:

EXCELLENT!

This is an important book by an important author who has already won a Booker prize. It captures the rich complexity of India on every level possible; no easy task. Adiga casts a keen eye towards social, political and economic injustices without a heavy hand. Rather, he creates a a deeply textured protagonist whose life tells us all we need to know about these larger issues from a personal and intimate viewpoint.

The success of this unabridged audio version is clearly the talent and skill of the narrator, Mr. Harsh Nayyar. Mr. Nayyar 's timing is always perfect, his voice captivating, his pronunciation perfect. He draws us into the story immediately, before we even become invested in the main character. He transforms the reading of audio books to the level of sheer art.

Great Listen, wonderful narrator!

Enjoyed these thoughtful stories very much, and particularly liked having a narrator with an appropriate accent, very clear to understand and hear, and read extremely well.

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Title: Some Things That Meant the World to Me

Author: Joshua Mohr

Narrator: Ben Rameaka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

When Rhonda was a child - abandoned and ignored by his mother; abused and misguided by his mother's boyfriend - he imagined the rooms of his home drifting apart from one another like separating continents. Years later, after an embarassing episode as an adult, Rhonda's inner-child appears, leading him to a trapdoor in the bottom of a dumpster behind a taqueria that will force him to finally confront his troubled past.

In the spirit of Cruddy and Hairstyles of the Damned, Joshua Mohr has created a remarkable and unforgettable character in this charmingly poetic and maturely crafted first novel.

Members Reviews:

Narration at times odd. Otherwise insanely good.

This book is insanely well written. I enjoyed every part of the imagery.

I'm not one to ever complain about a voice/narrator. I normally love them even if other people didn't. In general this Ben was amazing... However, I must admit that I was constantly knocked out of my suspension of disbelief whenever he did a Female character voice.

The way that this narrator does women would be perfect for an autobiography read by the author if the book was "Pee Wee Herman's Life Story"

His take on women is comical... and albeit distracting, it does sort of work for the story.

I hope Ben Rameaka was being directed to read this way and doesn't really think that this is how women sound. Its a tad bit demeaning.

The book and story are worth the annoyance/comic relief though. SO listen anyway.

I tried

The book simply stinks. Not everything has to be a nicey-nicey feel-good book. I like serious, and sometimes dark stories, but this just was not compelling. Sad things happened to main character, but it was hard for me to like him nevertheless. The rest of the characters were completely uninteresting & unlikeable. The story just never got better. At a little more than halfway through I realized I was wasting my time. Good luck if you download it.

Like Watching a Train Wreck

Sad, ugly little story that somehow manages to keep you in. It reads like a dime store dective novel. Harsh and bitter it tells the story of a young man who dysfunctional upbringing is the source of his multiple personality disorder and disassociative states, his search for love and for home. A hundred times I wanted to turn it off and not go back to it but it was just like a train wreck - you can't not look. Uncomfortable and challenging and not at all pleasant and yet I think it will stay with me for quite a while.

Publisher's Review = Wronger than Wrong!!!

I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but, this book was AWFUL, TERRIBLE and the narration made me cringe! It is sad really that you can't get your money back when a book is this bad. I primarily had a problem with the narration though and how the story was all over the place. Never a cohesive thought was presented in my opinion. I started this audio over about 7 times before I gave up and knew I would never finish it because it just was not interesting enough. The narrator really did not help this book at all. His voice as a woman, any woman drove me crazy! Oh, well better luck next time.

awful

It's like an acid trip through wonderland...but not in a good way

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Titel: Alle sieben Wellen

Autor:: Daniel Glattauer

Erzähler: Andrea Sawatzki, Christian Berkel

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-10-09

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 7 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Auch die halbjährige Sendepause hat nichts daran geändert: Sie sind und bleiben ein Traumpaar. Keiner passt so gut zu Emmi wie Leo. Keine pariert Leos Ausweichmanöver so schlagfertig wie Emmi. Eine perfekte Beziehung. Wenn sie nicht einen Makel hätte: die beiden haben schriftlich Millionen von Wörtern gewechselt - zärtlich, werbend, barsch, schwärmend, hochfliegend, traurig. Aber sie haben sich noch nie gesehen.

Es kommt zu einem "ersten und letzten", es kommt zu weiteren Treffen. Leo verrät Emmi, warum er nach Boston geflüchtet ist: Ehemann Bernhard, der heimlich Emmis Mails gelesen hatte, bat den "virtuellen" Rivalen, den Kontakt zu Emmi abzubrechen. Und nun ist auch noch Pamela in Leos Leben getreten. Doch sie sind süchtig nach ihren Worten, und sie können es nicht lassen, einander weiter zu schreiben. Bleibt es für Emmi und Leo wirklich nur bei der elektronischen Liebe?

(c) + (p) 2009 HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

kann einem tüchtig auf den Wecker gehen

ich fand beide Stummen etwas ätzend. es zog sich zu sehr raus. Englische Aussprache war auch nicht toll

Eine Schönheit!

Daniel Glattauer weiß einfach, wie man mit Worten umzugehen hat! Das, zusammen mit einer aufreibenden, humorvollen und alles in allem schönen Geschichte, macht "Alle Sieben Wellen" zu einem absoluten Genuss. Die Leser (Andrea Sawatzki und Christian Berkel) verstehen es diese Worte gefühlvoll und mit Emotion vorzutragen, sodass ein wahres Meisterwerk an Hörbuchkunst entsteht.

Für mich ist und bleibt dieses Hörbuch ein All-Time-Favorite, auf den ich jederzeit gerne zurück greifen.

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Titel: Das Spiel des Engels (Friedhof der vergessenen Bücher 2)

Autor:: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Erzähler: Gerd Wameling

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-23-08

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 3 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der junge David Martín fristet sein Leben als Autor von Schauergeschichten. Als ernsthafter Schriftsteller verkannt, von einer tödlichen Krankheit bedroht und um die Liebe seines Lebens betrogen, scheinen seine großen Erwartungen sich in nichts auszulösen. Doch einer glaubt an sein Talent: Der mysteriöse Verleger Andreas Corelli macht ihm ein Angebot, das Verheißung und Versuchung zugleich ist. David kann nicht widerstehen und ahnt nicht, in wessen Bann er gerät, und in welchen Strudel furchterregender Ereignisse.

(c)+(p) 2007 Argon Verlag

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Title: Carpentaria

Author: Alexis Wright

Narrator: Isaac Drandich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-08

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, Australia.

©2008 Alexis Wright; (P)2008 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

Editorial Reviews:

A rich and inventive tapestry of interwoven tales set among the aborigines of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Author Alexis Wright experiments with both form and language to create a startlingly original story that's both tragic and comic, using tales that blend the political with the mythological, the local and the universal. Although sometimes challenging, listeners are likely to enjoy the trip, and the novel coheres in startling ways at its center. Performer Isaac Drandich's deep, friendly voice provides an accessible narration that counterbalances some of the more challenging material.

Critic Reviews:

"Wright breaks all the rules of grammar and syntax to sweep us along on a great torrent of language that thrills and amazes with its inventiveness and humour and with the sheer power of its storytelling. It's brutal and confronting and it's sad and funny at the same time. Like the Gulf Country itself, this is big enough to lose yourself in." (Sydney Morning Herald).

"A swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel: stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humour, sweetened by spiralling lyricism and swaggering with the confident promise of a tale dominated by risk, roguery and revelation." (The Australian)

Members Reviews:

disappointing

Whimsical with little or no direction...little substance but good narrator who tries to maake sense out of nonsense...couldn't finish it

Mumbling narrator

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I couldn't continue listening so I am going to buy the book. The story is important and well written but the narrator ruined it for me.

Would you be willing to try another one of Isaac Drandichs performances?

Never!

Masterpiece

An extraordinary confluence of culture, politics, environment and imagination, brilliantly written and brilliantly read. Savour it.

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Titel: Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran

Autor:: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Erzähler: Matthias Ponnier

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 19 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-09-08

Herausgeber: Der Audio Verlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der elfjährige Moses lebt allein mit seinem Vater, einem verknöcherten Rechtsanwalt, in Paris. Täglich kauft er in Monsieur Ibrahims Laden ein, dem Araber in der Rue Bleue, die so wenig blau wie Monsieur Ibrahim ein Araber ist. Denn "Araber" bedeutet in der Branche: durchgehend geöffnet, von 8 Uhr bis Mitternacht. Zwischen dem alten Mann und dem Jungen, der am Haushaltsgeld spart, um zu den Huren zu gehen, entspinnt sich eine wunderbare Freundschaft.

Mit dieser Erzählung, die auch die Spielarten des muslimischen Glaubens thematisiert, schuf Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt eine zauberhafte Parabel über Toleranz, Weisheit, Fatalismus. Den Überraschungs-Bucherfolg aus Frankreich, der auch in Deutschland die Bestsellerlisten stürmt, liest Matthias Ponnier.

(c)+(p) 2006 Der Audio Verlag

Kritik Bewertungen:

"Ein unendlich zartes, schönes, liebevolles Buch. Lesen!"

--Elke Heidenreich

"...zählt zu den seltenen Hörbüchern, die eine stille Zufriedenheit verbreiten."

--MDR Figaro - Hörbuch des Monats Februar 2004

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Titel: Ein Strand für meine Träume

Autor:: Sergio Bambaren

Erzähler: Markus Hoffmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-04-08

Herausgeber: steinbach sprechende bücher

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Als er es wagt, loszulassen und zu verzichten, findet er nicht nur den Strand seiner Träume, sondern auch den Schlüssel zum eigenen Glück - die wertvollste und schönste Erfahrung seines Lebens. Eine bewegende Geschichte voll Wärme und Menschlichkeit.