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Title: Lance

Author: John Wilcockson

Narrator: Connor Trinneer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

As a superstar in the world of cycling and one of its most interesting personalities, six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has had much written about him. But author John Wilcockson, who has written numerous books about Armstrong and covered his exploits for years sometimes controversially has taken a long, hard, objective look at Armstrong's life. Drawing on talks with teammates, friends and family, Wilcockson delivers Lance Armstrong as the definitive biography of the amazing athlete just as Armstrong comes out of retirement to once again race in the Tour de France.

©2009 Phoenix; (P)2009 Phoenix

Members Reviews:

Great Book But...

This is a great book but as a die hard cycling fan, the mispronunciation of riders names, towns, race names, etc... is VERY annoying! The narrator should have done some more research before recording!

stupidity of description

does anyone on this site do any research as he is a seven times tour de france winner

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Title: Aaron Spelling

Subtitle: A Prime-Time Life

Author: Aaron Spelling, Jefferson Graham

Narrator: Aaron Spelling

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Spelling opens the door to his backstage world with candid observations about Hollywood and the TV business, along with the inspiring rags to riches story of a poor man from Texas who overcame insurmountable odds to become the most successful TV producer ever. His experience is unique, his achievement unparalleled. As he shares what he knows, this becomes a primer for anyone remotely connected with the entertainment industry today.

Members Reviews:

Loved it! Very enjoyable!

I was looking to buy this book since forever because I am a fan of his works and I love all the tv-shows he wrote and produced, but I never found the book at Barnes & Nobles .. so I decided to buy it via Amazon and as soon as I got it I started reading it. Very nice the way he writes also about his life as a poor kid in Dallas. I think he wrote this book in a very candid way. I loved this book a lot!

Audible book really engaging...

Although published 12 years ago (2002), this autobiography is a fun one. In the audio book, Spelling narrates his story with a beautiful balance of retrospection and humbleness. It's a great delivery, that really delivers an uplifting and entertaining story. The script is well-written and engaging. The audio book version is only offered in the abridged format; I was eager for it to be longer.

Interesting, but not particularly insightful

Spelling gives a once-over-lightly review of his life and work. I have to admit I never watched his shows, at least not that I could recall - so I only had the book's description to rely on. After a while, it appears to be something of a stream of name-dropping. But then again - Spelling made most of the actors the household names that they and that their characters became, so I guess he's entitled.

Spelling was basically a feel-good guy, at least that's the way he came across in the book. Nothing wrong with that, but because he really won't criticize or make any harsh observations about anyone he encountered (including types like Eisner and Orvitz) - that limits the depth of his observations and insights. Spelling obliquely observes that Hollywood is a tough town, but really doesn't tell us how tough it can be. Rather interestingly, he remarks that when one of his shows was cancelled - he would go home and spend a few days in bed with a bout of depression.

The book is a worthwhile read if you want to get a sense of some of the history of television programming - Spelling produced something like 3,500 hours - by comparison, Dick Wolf's Law & Order, which seems to be everywhere - is only about 600 hours.

I would have liked Spelling to be a bit more philosophical about what's involved in producing serial television, and his insights as to why his programs were such hits. But you won't find such insights in this book. About all he said in that regard is:

> television is teamwork

> hire the best writers you can and give them credit

> look into the actor's eyes when you audition them - that will tell you who's good

Since Spelling recently passed away, no telling if there is an update or additional biography in the works. I would hope so, and one that would give us more insights into the man, his times and his work.

Entertaining, insightful, and innovative!

Hi,

I found Mr.

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Title: A-Rod

Subtitle: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez

Author: Selena Roberts

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-09

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

His reputation changed drastically in February 2009 when Selena Roberts broke the news in Sports Illustrated that A-Rod had used performance-enhancing drugs during his 2003 MVP season with the Texas Rangers. Her report prompted a contrite Rodriguez to admit illegal drug use during his 2001 - 2003 seasons with the Rangers, who had signed him to the most expensive contract in Major League Baseball history.

Although he admitted to three seasons of steroid use, the man teammates call "A-Fraud" was still hiding the truth.

In the first definitive biography of Alex Rodriguez, Roberts assembles the strands of a bizarre and extraordinary life: from his boyhood in New York and the Dominican Republic through his near-mythic high-school career and fast track to the big leagues, the whole of A-Rod's career mirrors the rise and fall of the steroid generation.

In A-Rod, Roberts captures baseball's greatest player as a tragic figure in pinstripes: the man once considered the clean exception of the steroid generation revealed as an unmistakable product of its greed and dissolution.

Members Reviews:

Loved it! It was very informative about A-Rod

This book was very informative about this Bad Boy of BASEBALL. It shows his human side, explaining his family LIFE. YOUR CHILDHOOD shapes your FUTURE.

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Title: How Harlem Became the Center of the Universe

Subtitle: On the Shoulders of Giants, Volume 1

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrator: Avery Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Basketball legend and New York Times best-selling author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life.

Members Reviews:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores again.

This master piece is a must have. The whole set is a beautiful journey through the Harlem Renaissance, where jazz was king.

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Title: Joe & Marilyn

Subtitle: A Memory of Love

Author: Roger Kahn

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-09

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Joe & Marilyn is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the field, but vulnerable and intensely human off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, "She doesn't need a husband. She needs salvation."

After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead finding a poised and graying man - "a little shy, like me" - impeccably tailored and financially secure. When they married in 1954, reporters called them "Mr. and Mrs. America." But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He wanted a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine months.

In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart friend. But even he could not rescue her. In the end all that was left for him was to plan her funeral. He barred some of Hollywood's most famous names. Why? "Because they killed her," he told a friend.

Members Reviews:

THE BRONX BOMBER AND THE BOMBSHELL

ROGER KAHN DOES A VERY GOOD JOB WRITING THIS VERY INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING STORY. HE DOVOTES THE MAJORITY OF THIS BOOK ABOUT JOE, A SMALLER SEGMENT ABOUT MARILYN AND FINALLY A VERY SMALL BUT INTERSTING SEGMENT ON THEIR LIFE TOGETHER. SINCE THE MARRIAGE ONLY LASTED 9 MONTHS NOT MUCH COULD BE WRITTEN. THE READER GETS A VERY GOOD LOOK AT WHAT BOTH OF THEM WERE LIKE PERSONALLY. SHE CAME FROM A FAMILY OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND WAS VERY VULNERABLE AND INSECURE AND SEEKED THE LIME LIGHT. JOE CAME FROM A LARGE FAMILY AND WAS VERY QUIET, DISTANT AND COLD. HE PREFERRED HIS PRIVACY. SO RIGHT OFF THE BAT THEY WERE A HUGE MIS-MATCH. KAHN GIVES ALOT OF FACTS AND INFO ABOUT BOTH OF THEIR CAREERS AND DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB WITH BASEBALL STATS AND MOVIE TRIVIA. KAHN ALSO DISCUSSES THE QUESTION OF FOUL PLAY IN HER DEATH. ALL IN ALL I THINK THIS IS A NICE READ FOR ALL FANS WHO LIKE BASEBALL AND HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP. WELL WORTH READING.

TITLE IS MISLEADING

The book is a rehash of Dimaggio's baseball career with a small dose of Monroe's life story and a smaller dose of their marriage. The author spends little time on their marriage, which the title of the book implies is the topic of the book.

Mr. Kahn has a good track record as a writer so it is puzzling why he produced such an unremarkable book unless material about their marriage proved to be difficult or impossible to document and the careers became filler for the book.

Fun Listen!

I thought I read all the stories but I enjoyed listening to the well researched background stories and details of both Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.

Fast shipping - thank you!

Probably Better Stories of Their Relationship Out There

The book was very superficial. I did not feel like I got a true sense of their relationship. I would not recommend the book.

Another Hit For Kahn

The always entertaining and interesting Mr. Kahn writes about two of the more fascinating people in American pop culture history. A good read, as always, with this author

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Title: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Subtitle: Chairman Humph - A Tribute

Author: BBC Audiobooks

Narrator: Stephen Fry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-09

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Stephen Fry presents a special tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, the sublime host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, through the eyes of his close pals on the show and distinguished admirers, from Dame Judi Dench to Radiohead. The programme features many highlights taken from his thirty-six years at the helm of Radio 4's perennial antidote to panel games.

©2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd; (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Members Reviews:

Laying flowers at Mornington Crescent

This is a fitting tribute to the life and comedy of Humphrey Littleton. You will warm yourself at the hearth of this homage and gain an insight to Humph through the eyes of those who knew him. There are choice clips from ISIHAC and specially recorded testimonials from the likes of Barry Cryer, Germaine Greer and Rob Brydon although I gather the lovely Samantha was too distraught to record her message. A must have if you, like me, are a ISIHAC fan.

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Title: Always By My Side

Author: Jim Nantz

Narrator: Jim Nantz

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

In Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other, 2007 Sportscaster of the Year Nantz recounts how he felt his father's presence every step of the way - and through this championship journey, he celebrates the people and moments that tap into all the goodness that his dad - and his dad's generation - represent.Always By My Side traces Nantz's career, from creating his own imaginary TV studio he created as a boy to his college days rooming with future PGA Tour golfers to his chance meeting with NBC Sports producer Don Ohlmeyer that started him on a path that led to a successful CBS network audition at the age of 26. Along the way, he remembers his friendships with such sports royalty as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Mike Krzyzewski, and Bill Walton - as well as Hollywood A-listers like Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery, all the time remaining humble and grateful for the opportunity to be afforded such an amazing life.

Nantz also recalls father-figures he found throughout his life when his own ailing father was unable to be physically with him: George H. W. Bush, Ken Venturi, Jim McKay, Pat Summerall, Billy Packer, Frank Chirkinian, and others.

Ultimately, Always By My Side is a collection of poignant stories that explore the theme of fathers and sons who have bonded through a common love of sports. It turns every day into Father's Day.

Members Reviews:

1st Person story by Pat was better

I bought this for my mom because her sister is going through something similar to what Jim's father went through. She isnt a big sports person but does like basketball and football and watches some baseball. She preferred Pat Summitt's book because it dealth more with the actual disease and the issues that come with it. She liked this book but the sports announcing part was a bit much for her taste. Over all a good book but the 1st person story told by Pat resonated more with her. It probably helps she is a big Tennessee fan as well :)

Thank you Jimmy!

I've always thought Jim Nantz is the best, or at least my favorite, sports announcer. I admire his background and accomplishments and his way with words, and most of all what seems to be an inherent goodness. His auto biography and story of his relationship with his father gives many great insights into his life as a successful network broadcaster as well as how the bonds between a father and son influence each other's lives. Exceptionally well written by a master story teller with so many cool stories to tell. A quick, engaging and thought provoking read. I would recommend to all highly!

Five Stars

Heartwarming

A Compelling Two-Track Story of Family Love and Broadcasting Excellence

Longtime CBS sports broadcaster Jim Nantz has distinguished himself on the air as a masterful storyteller. Whenever he speaks, you can be sure he will not bombard you with the cliches that have become commonplace among most announcers. Fortunately for readers, he carries his straightforward, succinct style into this compelling book.

The book's first track centers around Nantz's close relationship with his father. As Jim's career blossomed, he turned to his father for companionship and advice. Yet in May of 1995, their consistently close and clear communication began to fade, as Jim heard the dreaded diagnosis: His father had Alzheimer's.

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Title: Twisted Head

Subtitle: An Italian American Memoir

Author: Carl Capotorto

Narrator: Carl Capotorto

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Twisted Head is the comedic story of one hardscrabble, working-class family's life that represents the real legacy of Italian-Americans - labor, not crime. Somewhere in all the rage and madness that surrounded Carl in his youth, he found the bottom line: he loved his family but had to become his own man. Twisted Head is an exorcism of sorts. With plenty of laughs.

Critic Reviews:

"Carl Capotorto's first book was for me a wonderful reading experience. In part because my own upbringing was strikingly similar to Carl's. On the other hand, you don't have to be Italian to be moved by this powerfully touching memoir." (Mario Cuomo)

"Wonderfully entertaining, it made me laugh, cry, and remember a world that is slowly disappearing. I could not recommend it more highly." (John Turturro)

"It made me fall in love with my own imperfect family all over again." (Edie Falco)

Members Reviews:

If you like a great story and a great storyteller

I love the book, and I just love Carl Capotorto's reading. Simpy perfect. This book will make you cry and laugh and you wll want to listen to it again and again. So glad it's the author reading it! A fabulous memoir, one of the funniest and smartest by a male writer.

It was okay

It held my interest for a while but then I found myself wishing he would rap it up already. I would probably recommend it nonetheless but not highly.

A wild rollercoaster ride!

If you could sum up Twisted Head in three words, what would they be?

Comically Engaging, Courageous, Revealing, Heart-Warming.

What did you like best about this story?

The relationship between the author and his father.

Have you listened to any of Carl Capotortos other performances before? How does this one compare?

No I have not.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Entertaining and provocative! A hidden gem.

Any additional comments?

This book is a must read. Go out and get a copy.

Funny and ultimately moving...

I enjoyed Capatorto's reading of his autobiographical coming-of-age tale. While he may not be as technically skilled as many of my favorite narrators (he doesn't really have a great sense of pace variation), he brings to the reading his own personal experience of having lived it, the verisimilitude of which more than makes up for any minor shortcomings he may have as a narrator.

Give it a try.

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Title: Amarcord

Subtitle: Marcella Remembers

Author: Marcella Hazan

Narrator: Concetta Tomei

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-08

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Her story begins in Alexandria, Egypt, where an early childhood accident would alter the course of her life and bring her family back to her father's native Italy for medical treatment. In Italy, Marcella was fulfilling her ambition to become a doctor when she met Victor, the love of her life. After their marriage, they moved to America, where Marcella knew not a word of English or a single recipe. She began to recall and attempt to re-create the flavors of her homeland, giving cooking lessons in her tiny New York kitchen. Soon after, Craig Claiborne invited himself to lunch, and the rest is history.

Amarcord means "I remember" in Marcella's native Romagnolo dialect. Marcella, now 84, looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching, and the twists and turns that brought her love, fame, and a chance to forever change the way we eat.

Members Reviews:

Get a Hard Copy

I wish I had bought a Hard copy, I feel I lost a lot in the transcription.

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Title: Rebound Rules

Subtitle: The Art of Success

Author: Rick Pitino, Pat Forde

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-08

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Yet Pitino's journey has not been without life-altering adversity: After experiencing profound personal and professional losses, including three losing seasons as coach and president of the Boston Celtics, the devastating loss of his infant son, Daniel, and the additional tragedies of losing two brothers-in-law, Pitino writes, "From that point on, my life changed forever. Nothing will ever be the same."

This realization gave Pitino a new perspective, and the failures and tragedies he recounts make this book unique. It's about how to succeed after you've failed; how to pick yourself up after being knocked down; and how to reframe yourself and see the world in a new light. This is a comeback story, a manual for overcoming life's difficulties. In Rebound Rules: The Art of Success 2.0, Pitino's crafted a book that's more deeply personal, more inspiring, more practical, and more powerful than any he's written before.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Super

rules for life

Great book not only about basketball but about life

Five Stars

Fantastic book

Passionate, Hungry, Driven, and yet Empty

Rick Pitino looks for PHDs when recruiting players, those who are passionate, hungry and driven. In reading REBOUND RULES, that rang true and was utterly convincing. But, the book lacked a soul, as if Pitino has been so affected by tragedy in his life that he no longer feels. I don't know if that is true or not, but I do know how the book reads. Pitino is the Type A micro-manager who loves reading motivational books and using business booms and busts as examples of success. He has each second of his day scripted, and undoubtedly has incredible self-discipline. Still, the thrill appears to be gone and the goal seems to be avoiding turnovers in life.

Great Readc

This book was great read. It was full of great stories and situations Rick has been in and how he's dealt with them. It's great book for both younger and older coaches (and non-coaches).