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Title: A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas

Subtitle: With Commentary from Alison Larkin

Author: Charles Dickens, Clement Clarke Moore

Narrator: Derek Perkins, Alison Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-16

Publisher: Alison Larkin Presents...British Classic Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore are as different as England and America themselves, and yet almost two centuries later these two iconic tales remain an important part of Christmas tradition all over the world. Now they are brought together in this very special holiday recording.

Derek Perkins is the Audie and AudioFile Earphones award winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks and an AudioFile Magazines Best Voice of 2014.

Alison Larkin is the AudioFIle Earphones award winning narrator of over 150 audiobooks, an internationally acclaimed comedienne and the author of The English American, a novel.

Members Reviews:

A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas

A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas

: Charles Dickens, Clement Clarke Moore

A Christmas Carol has been a favorite story of mine for many, many years. I also like The Night before Christmas. My Christmas Season can now begin! I will be listening to this over and over!!!!!

The short narration in between the two stories was enlightening with information that I didn't previously know. That added just a little more excitement for me.

The narration was well done.The characters were well portrayed by Derek Perkins and Alison Larkin

This is an enjoyable listen and it was free from Audible.

A WONDERFUL holiday recording of two great classic

Would you listen to A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas again? Why?

Oh yes! It was delightful - such a treat - to hear my two favorite Christmas stories in the same recording! And read so beautifully with very interesting commentary in between.

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas?

The moment when Scrooge wakes up and realizes it is not too late!

What does Derek Perkins and Alison Larkin bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

These are two A list narrators - the very best - at the top of their game. Both Mr Perkins and Mis Larkin have a gift for bringing out the author's voice through their own. They do it again here - with two of the greatest texts ever written. I was so happy to hear Derek Perkins reading this - he is SO GOOD. I loved Alison Larkin's narrations of Jane Austen and Lewis Carroll 's novels, which was how I found this. The combination of these two voices makes for a really top notch recording.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes.

Any additional comments?

It was so interesting listening to the short commentary by Alison Larkin in between the tales, linking the two stories in a very interesting way. I won't spoil it - but it's really fascinating!

Loved the voice of Scrooge, a great version

Would you consider the audio edition of A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas to be better than the print version?

Um - hard to answer. Dickens himself read regularly from his work, and it works nicely when listened to.

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Title: Why Are We in Vietnam?

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality.

Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.

Members Reviews:

Fireworks that glitter than go out

Don't waste your time with Mailer's literary pyrotechnics.

Norman Mailer most foul! Should be taught at literature school in Gibberish 101

Calling this book "classic", "war", or "journalism" is totally incorrect. When it came out, the rumor was that Mailer wrote it one weekend while drunk. If you read it, you'll probably see where the rumor came from. It's not about the war, it's about a kid & his friend who are preparing to be inducted and go on a hunting trip to Alaska, and actually, as I remember, the only place Vietnam is mentioned is on the last page, when the narrator says "Vietnam? Hot damn!" You really just read the first paragraph of the book to get an indication of what gibberish it is "Hip hole and Hupmobile, Braunschweiger. You didn't invite Geiger and his counter for nothing. Let go of my dong, Shakespeare" (I realized that I have had that opening line memorized for 50 years, since it first came out). "The Red Badge Of Courage", it ain't

North to Alaska

Why Are We in Vietnam? reads like Ernest Hemingwayâs Green Hills of Africa and William Faulknerâs âThe Bearâ as channelled through Doonesbury. Norman Mailerâs 1967 novel purports to answer the title question through the story of a big game hunt in the wilds of Alaska, which seems to imply that Americans (or at least Texansâthe president at the time was a Texan, you knowâ) are in Vietnam because they like killing and harbor a latent craving for buggery.

I evaluate novels on whether they entertain me, so Mailerâs goofy political theory and pretentious title make little difference to my review. What does make a difference, however, is that is that while Mailer sets up a good story dynamic, he sabotages it with juvenile posturing.

At its core, the book is about the growing conflict between teenaged D.J. and his father Rusty, a senior corporate executive undergoing a midlife crisis who plans the hunting trip in order to bag a grizzly bear and thereby validate his manhood. Joining the two on the trip are D.J.âs best friend Tex, a couple of Rustyâs flunkies and a pair of local guides. The story is told in alternating chapters narrated by D.J. in a bratty foul-mouthed voice and a third person narrator in a bratty foul-mouthed voice.

The best parts of Why Are We in Vietnam? are those describing the actual hunting activities and the behavior of the wildlife, which do evoke Hemingway and Faulkner, and thatâs a good thing. However, Mailerâs descriptions of the humansâ activities are undermined by the caricatured way they are presented and by narrative voices that sound like Beavis and Butthead on an off day.

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Título: El maravilloso mago de Oz [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]

Autor: L. Frank Baum

Narrador: Nuria Trifol

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 09-01-16

Editor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 9 votos

Categorías: Classics, American Literature

Resumen del editor:

Alfaguara Clásicos nos trae este precioso audiolibro de El Mago de Oz, obra clave de la historia de la literatura infantil, mundialmente conocida y alabada. Dorothy no podía imaginarse que la casa donde se resguardaba de los tornados saliera volando y aterrizase... en otro mundo. Deberá buscar la manera de regresar con su perrito Toto a casa. Para ello, viajará hasta la Ciudad de las Esmeraldas, donde el maravilloso Mago de Oz le concederá su deseo (o al menos eso le ha dicho la Bruja buena del Norte). El viaje no será fácil, pero con la compañía de un espantapájaros, un hombre de hojalata y un león cobarde, Dorothy recorrerá Oz y se enfrentará a sus miedos, y también a cierta bruja malvada que busca venganza...Clásicos inolvidables para disfrutar, compartir y dejar volar la imaginación.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Excelente

Una magnífica historia, bellísima y agradablemente narrada.

Es fácil ver por qué se convirtió en un clásico.

Muy recomendable tanto para niños como para adultos.

amazing narrator

the voice acting/narrating for this audiobook is brilliant, the best i have come across on audible, you won't be disappointed

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Title: The Offshore Pirate [Classic Tales Edition]

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: B. J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-16

Publisher: B. J. Harrison

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Ardita Farnam, flapper and demimondaine, has a feisty will and a fiery tongue. But when seven hulking musicians seize her yacht while her rich uncle goes ashore, she soon discovers the limits of her persuasive powers, and a battle of wits begins.

Members Reviews:

Good short story.

This story was short and to the point. Enjoyed the narrating and character personalities performed.

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Title: The Beasts of Tarzan

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

America's favorite jungle hero returns for a third time in The Beasts of Tarzan.

The legendary Tarzan claims his birthright title as Lord Greystoke and starts a small family with Jane, now his wife. But just when things are going right, the evil Rokoff kidnaps Tarzan's infant son, Jack, luring Tarzan into a trap. After Rokoff exiles him on an island near the African coast, Tarzan uses his skills learned from the jungle to win the favor of various wild animals. Tarzan must enlist these creatures to help him track down Rokoff in order to save his family from certain demise.

Members Reviews:

good til the last page

Tarzan to the rescue! :) good ending, and you never know which way is gonna go throughout! love the narrator, Jeff Harding does a wonderful job! I wish he narrated the rest of the series! but to my dismay he does not.

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Title: Pierre; or, the Ambiguities

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Robin Field

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Pierre Glendinning is the 19-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother, Pierre encounters the dark and mysterious Isabel Banford, who claims to be his half sister, the illegitimate and orphaned child of his father and a European refugee.

Driven by his magnetic attraction to Isabel, Pierre devises a remarkable scheme to preserve his father's name, spare his mother's grief, and give Isabel her proper share of the estate.

First published in 1852, Pierre; or the Ambiguities was condemned by critics of the time: "a dead failure", "this crazy rigmarole", and "a literary mare's nest". Latter-day critics, however, have recognized in the story of Melville's idealistic young hero a corrosive satire of the sentimental Gothic novel and a revolutionary foray into modernist literary techniques.

Members Reviews:

A rare treat for Melville fans

The novel is incredible and this audiobook provides an unabridged edition - this is important because many who are familiar with Pierre these days are familiar with the abridged edition edited by Herschel Parker and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. I personally appreciate this full unabridged edition and find it indispensable to an understanding of Melville and his work.

It is easy to call the novel itself "flawed," as indeed it has been so called, but it's quality is of the sort that rather than having virtues and flaws it rather seems like a titanic mountain with crags and gorges, roughly but beautifully complex in its textures. If you enjoy Melville in general, the narrative voice in this novel is frankly lovable. Listening to it in audiobook form, I felt as if wearing this lovely narrative voice like a cloak. I am loath to cast it off!

Robin Field's reading is generally excellent and his tone, especially as narrator, is quite fine for this writing. However, I did occasionally wince at his reading of female voices - sometimes a little too much of the "damsel in distress" tone that male readers are sometimes wont to fall into. But it is a minor quibble (and some of that tone is in the writing as well, though not so much as it sounds in the recording), especially considering that this is really the only recording of Pierre that I am aware of that is a professional production, and unabridged to boot. Overall, highly recommended!

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Title: Stoner

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: John Williams, John McGahern - introduction

Narrator: Alfred Molina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Waterstone's book of the year

Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on best-seller lists across Europe.

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at 19 to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history and reclaims the significance of an individual life.

A listening experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.

Members Reviews:

Beautifully written

Beautifully written but don't expect much more.

There is no beginning middle and end. It flows through one mans life without much excitement but an unexciting life nevertheless is beautifully described.

Probably one of the finest books I have listened to - why isn't this book better known?!

If you enjoy Donna Tartt I think you will enjoy this. I am left feeling bereft after finishing this book, so much so that I am about to start again!

A Truley Great Novel.

Utterly fantastic, moving and expertly composed. Everyone should read this book. The person who read this version was also flawless in his delivery.

Thoughtful and compelling

Any additional comments?

This isn't the sort of book I would normally go for. It took me a while to get into it, but once I did I was hooked. I think comparisons to John Steinbeck are pushing it a bit, but Stoner is a compelling classic American novel with a character I came to really care about.

Excellent Novel

Very much enjoyed listening to this. To say not much happens would be true. But it is a compelling story beautifully told and very well read.

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Title: Great American Short Stories

Author: Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, W. C. Morrow, H. P. Lovecraft, John Kendrick Bangs, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A gripping collection of outstanding American classic short stories by some of America's greatest writers.

Plus 20 more great classic American short stories.

Members Reviews:

A horror in every breathless moment ....

Would you try another book from the authors and/or Cathy Dobson?

No, while all of the authors are enticing, Dobson's performance, however, is not.

What did you like best about this story?

Silent pauses without her dramatics. Gave my ears a rest.

How could the performance have been better?

.... even in the performance! Dobson was stretched beyond her limits.

Was Great American Short Stories worth the listening time?

No.

Great American Short Stories

Hard to follow the story lines. I have listened to other audible books that l liked a lot more than this one.

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Title: A Message to Garcia

Subtitle: And Treasured Wisdom

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Narrator: Mitch Horowitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-16

Publisher: Condensed Classics

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

History's Greatest Motivational Lesson: Now in a Definitive Edition with Gems of Wisdom from Elbert Hubbard

This remarkably concise, powerful statement on what makes a person successful remains as relevant today as when it was written more than a century ago. If you take seriously the principle of Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia, you will become the indispensable, productive, successful, and respected person you have always wished to be. All that is required is for you to "carry a message to Garcia" - which means to do a job simply as it should be done. Discover for yourself the incredible power hidden in this one step.

This edition of A Message to Garcia surpasses other volumes because it includes short passages of life advice from Hubbard that elucidate his message and demonstrate how to put it into action. Selected and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, this slender volume offers a life-changing journey into a single idea that can make all the difference in your earning power, effectiveness, and success.

The Condensed Classics Library "40 Minutes to a New You".

Members Reviews:

Forgotten Truths.

Quoting from "The Richest Man in Babylon":

"Work was my grandfather's secret key to the golden shekels? "

"It was the only key he had when I first knew him. Thy grandfather enjoyed working, and the Gods appreciated his efforts and rewarded him liberally."

If you appreciate that logic, you'll appreciate "A Letter to Garcia"

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Title: The Tell-Tale Heart

Author: Edgar Allen Poe

Narrator: Michael Pearl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-16

Publisher: Brook Forest Voices

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Written in 1843, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a dark and eerie tale of a man's unhealthy obsession that leads him to commit murder. Will his paranoia get him caught? This is one of Poe's finest and most memorable short stories!

Members Reviews:

Cheap and worthless book.

This book looks like it was printed from a home printer and the illustrations are a joke. Do not buy this book, such a let down because the cover looks very nice. Just go online and print it yourself.

Great Graphic Novel

This story was a English assignment for my 8th grade son. When I saw the story in a graphic novel, it was a must have. Very nice book and great pictures. Very satisfied with this book.

Macabre. Well-executed.

The classic short story.

Bone chilling. Macabre. Well-executed.

The beating heart was really CREEPY!

Realistic

First, this isy favorite short story. Since receiving this, my kids (8-10) have asked me to read it to them several times. My only suggestion would be to make the beating of the heart more audible. You can get it but not really hear it. They hold it and pass it around, but a little sound would be nice, since it is the sound of the heart that is central to the story.

Five Stars

I am a fan of Edgar Allan Poe. I wish I had his talent.