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Title: The Rebel Angels

Subtitle: The Cornish Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Robertson Davies

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 173 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young businessman who inherits some troublesome paintings are all helplessly beguiled by the same coed. Davies weaves together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern university.

©1981 Robertson Davies; (P)1997 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"[Davidson] accomplishes the task of preserving this restless story with a flowing narration. He modulates the voice of Maria, a graduate student, separating her from male companions with expressive accuracy. His slight English accent and dry, earthy elocution soundly stir this fiction to its concluding moment." (AudioFile)

"A compelling performance." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

must love academe circa mid 20th C

-- or at least love to laugh at it. A quirky love story told from two perspectives serves as a framework for a meditation on human nature. There are Classics specialists cavorting with Roma to trump academic rivals, with Jungian archetypes, alchemy, Tarot, and scientists studying feces thrown in, set in what appears to be U of Toronto before the university "modernized" (or post-modernized).

Though characters are immersed in Classics and Medieval studies, you don't need to be an academic to follow the fun. You can listen to the novel with with a Jungian ear, or you can listen to it as a bizarre tale, well woven, well written, well-narrated and often humorous (but not in the light hearted campus comedy tradition). Warning: There are with several scenes of lengthy debate among academics.

Volume two of the trilogy is on Audible ('What's Bred in the Bone') but not tagged as v. 2. V. 3 ("Lyre of Orpheus") is tagged as such.

If the arguing academics put you off the download, try v. 2., which is more a ride through the early 20th century with an eccentric, with even more Jung thrown in.

Not my favorite Davies novel

I've read all of Robertson Davies novels, and would say he's among my favorites. I usually enjoy listening to books I have read before--it brings out the best in a good book. This one, however, turned out to be an exception to that rule. Or maybe when I read it before I just wasn't as aware of how much the plot depends on creepy sexual predation attempting to disguise itself in mystical symbolism. There's some mildly entertaining academic satire here, but I could have skipped the rest. If you've never read Davies, start with Fifth Business.

Marvellous Tale, Howlingly Funny, Flawlessly Read

Robertson Davies is one of the great writers of our time, and if you fancy yourself an enlightened, educated individual, this will put you right. If you have anything to do with a "higher education," this ought to be required reading. Hah!

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Title: Moon Palace

Author: Paul Auster

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 78 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the '60s, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction.

Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Paul Auster's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a writer whose work shines with intelligence and originality." (Don Delillo)

"In somber, cerebral, and terse narratives, Paul Auster has hunted down his obsessions. The missing father, the limits of language, the past as a crime we are driven to solve: from these themes, Mr. Auster has built a reputation as a post-modern gumshoe, fusing the conventions of detective fiction with Beckett-like despair." (The New York Times)

"The moon as a poetic and planetary influence over earthly affairs runs as a theme, wittily ransacked, throughout this elegant fiction." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

I don't get it, I thoroughly enjoy it though.

It feels like an ode to storytelling itself. Each chapter is its own like individual colors of a mosaic. Beautiful and engaging

Only Auster should narrate Auster

A fantastic, captivating story, but it should not be narrated akin to a radio play. Only Auster should narrate Auster. I hope he gets to narrate Moon Palace. If so, I will definitly purchase it again.

My favourite Paul Auster novel

Would you listen to Moon Palace again? Why?

I have already listened to it three times, and never tire of it, so yes I would listen to it again

What other book might you compare Moon Palace to, and why?

I can't think of another book I'd compare it to. It's written in the style of a 'roman d'apprentisage', used by many of the classic nineteenth century novelists, but with the added elements Paul Auster finds interesting, in particular how chance affects our lives and decisions.

Which character as performed by Joe Barrett was your favourite?

The main character, Marco Fogg.

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

Yea, but it was too long for that

Any additional comments?

Well, I have mentioned it is my favourite novel by Paul Auster. It has all the elements his novels are known for, but readers of his work will know that his later work is not very satisfying for many reasons. If someone asked me the best introduction to his work, I would say this one because for me it has stood the test of time, unlike his classic 'New York Trilogy', which I have as an audio book, but which I now find dated and tiresome.

First Paul Auster (I can't believe he passed me)

This is a beautiful book. The American novel at it's very best. Slow and steady, the narrative builds and the author engages and seduces. Don't expect fast food but expect a meal of exquisite proportions.

Words on longing

as i remember it from years ago.

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Title: The Rules of Attraction

Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Narrator: Jonathan Davis, Danny Gerard, Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 121 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan '80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.

Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.

Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor, who split for Europe months ago, and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letters to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren - even if he ends up in bed with half the campus - and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed to Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Bret Easton Ellis' book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

Critic Reviews:

"Serves to establish Mr. Ellis's reputation further as one of the primary inside sources in upper-middle-class America's continuing investigation of what has happened to its children." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Ellis is, first and last, a moralist. Under cover of his laconic voice, every word in his [novels] springs from grieving outrage at our spiritual condition." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"Inspired. A wonderfully comic novel." (Gore Vidal)

Members Reviews:

Not Ellis's best work

I am a huge fan of Bret Easton Ellis, but this was my least favorite of his books. I enjoyed it okay for about the first half, and the writing and narration is good, but then it started getting old and didn't go anywhere (I ended up giving up and not finishing it).

A very directionless story, which sometimes I don't mind, but there were sooo many characters (each chapter is written in a different character's voice) and they all were pretty similar so I couldn't keep them straight, much less really care about them. Maybe in a written format it would have been easier. There are many better ones-- Less Than Zero, Lunar Park, Glamorama.

Dark, shallow, disgusting, and so much fun!!

The dating scene in college is one long gross orgy. This book gives good voice to the reasons why I don't chill with frat guys and won't date sorority girls.

Great book

Characters that speak to youth in every generation it's prolific. I really enjoyed it and it spoke to me as a 23 year old.

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Title: Gun, with Occasional Music

Author: Jonathan Lethem

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 188 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In this brave new world, Metcalf has been shadowing the wife of an affluent doctor, perhaps falling a little in love with her at the same time. But when the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in the crossfire in a futuristic world that is both funny - and not so funny.

Editorial Reviews:

Narrator Nick Sullivan serves this dialogue well, and has great fun with the accumulation of wisecracks. Lines like "The Bay View was a vacation spot for people vacating from their husbands and wives" are delivered with perfect timing, fitting for the kind of deadpan one-liners that are stock in trade of gumshoe narratives. If he perhaps emphasises the comic and cartoon at the expense of the story's darker undertones, then it is compensated by his well-drawn cast of characters, including a lugubrious villain and a tough-guy kangaroo hoodlum.

Although not as substantial as Lethem's two masterpieces, Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Gun with Occasional Music clearly sets forth the author's predilection for genre-bending, being somewhere between Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick perhaps with a touch of Who Framed Roger Rabbit thrown in.

Critic Reviews:

"This colorful first novel is a fast and lively read, full of humorous visions and outlandish predicaments." (Publishers Weekly)

"[A] sparkling pastiche of Chandleresque detective fiction displaced to an almost comical postmodern landscape." (Booklist)

"Marries Chandler's style and Philip K. Dick's vision...an audaciously assured first novel." (Newsweek)

Members Reviews:

SF SLAMS into a hard-boiled, noir pulp!

Science fiction slams into a hard-boiled, noir pulp (imagine 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' written by Chandler and directed by David Lynch'). Fun, quick and in parts even close to brilliant.

Noir detective novel meets alternative future...

This book was in my library for a very long time... I think I thought it was a different kind of book than it actually was. It is billed as a noir-detective type novel, but I would have to say that it is equally an alternative future/sci-fi type novel.

It does have the Chandler-esque tone to it: making it on the dark side, and the action is short and succinct. It is not particularly violent or graphic, but has an over-arching depression about it. (i.e. you won't find a feel-good sensation at the end).

There is significant drug use - in fact, this is the component that sets the novel out as alternative future-ish... drug use has been legalized, and, even more disturbingly, made customizable for users. In fact, it changes society completely at the end - and it adds a layer of bleakness to the story, while still remaining believable. If you look at it quickly, you might think the drug use was just this detectives' booze (after all, don't all noir detectives have addictions?), but I think it was actually the component that carved out this world: the very world became the way it is in the novel because of this drug 'reality'. And the ending of the novel wouldn't have worked without it.

I have read elsewhere that the novel was a commentary on the state of individual detachment from/in the world, and I suppose that could be an accurate description. Except that I didn't read it for social insights or moral issues; I read it for simple enjoyment. Fortunately it delivered.

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Title: American Rust

Author: Philipp Meyer

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 317 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.

Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.

Editorial Reviews:

When Tom Stechschulte lures us with his steady voice into the blighted steel town of Buell, Pennsylvania, Isaac English is on his way out. On Isaac's last night in town, he and his best friend Billy Poe meet up in an abandoned steel mill for some drinks, some laughs20-year-old guy stuff. But what happens to them that night will trap Poe in Buell and send Isaac on the run.

Philipp Meyer's American Rust is a commentary on post-industrial America. Meyer's spare, harsh prose recalls the machismo of Ernest Hemingway and exposes the wounded pride of the men in this story. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, and Stechschulte alters his steely, accent-less voice accordingly, but leaves room in each for a common vulnerability, a confessional tone, that keeps the listener interested.

One by one, Meyer presents the possibility for each character's success or happiness. Isaac scored a 1560 on his SATs. Poe received a football scholarship to college. Isaac's dad moves to Indiana for a better paying job. Poe's mom Grace and the sheriff Bud Harris just might make it as a couple. Isaac's sister Leigh made it to Yale.

And one by one, every single character's hopes are diminished, but not by any single devastating incident. Over a long period of time, through overexposure to harsh sunlight and cold, driving rain, we listen as this steel town rusts.

While rust serves in this novel primarily as a metaphor for the atrophy of American industrial society, the listener is also reminded that rust binds metals together. It is indeed the hope that Isaac and Poe have in each otherthrough all the hardship that follows the night in the millthat makes American Rust well worth the listen. ;Sarah Evans Hogeboom

Critic Reviews:

"Meyer has a thrilling eye for failed dreams and writes uncommonly tense scenes of violence, and in the character of Grace creates a woeful heroine. Fans of Cormac McCarthy or Dennis Lehane will find in Meyer an author worth watching." (

Publishers Weekly)

"

American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer a writer who understands how place and personality and circumstance can converge to create the perfect storm of tragedy." (

The New York Times)

"This bleak but skillful debut novel is both affecting and timely." (

The New Yorker)

Members Reviews:

A Web of Despair and Desperation

Probably 4.5 corroded stars. An amazing first novel that spins a web of despair and desperation set in a degraded rust belt town that is still in the midst of the Fall. It is a novel of hard compromises, silent heros, and people that grind on every day knowing the sun for them will not rise tomorrow.

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Title: The World According to Bertie

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Robert Ian MacKenzie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 432 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The World According to Bertie is the fourth in the series and revolves around the many colorful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, and, most importantly in this novel, the beleaguered Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie. This is classic McCall Smith - clever, witty and entertaining - and beautifully illustrated. A chance encounter with Armistead Maupin in San Francisco inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write this series of novels based around the fictional No. 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh's New Town.

Listen to all of our

titles.

©2008 Alexander McCall Smith; (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

Great visit to 44 Scotland Street

I have always enjoyed the McCall Smith characters and the various series, whatever their locations, Edinburgh or Botswana. I grab each one as soon as it is available for download and I am never disappointed in the economy of expression yet attention to nuance contained therein. McCall Smith has an excellent grasp of the various moral and situational ambiguities inherent in modern life and is proficient as well as entertaining in expressing them.

I thought this latest episode left a few compelling threads dangling, however, although perhaps that was intentional, leaving the reader wanting more. There was also a significant variation in my attention level, as the narrative went from yawn to laugh-out-loud hilarity.

There were a few passages that were not really critical to the story lines that could have been shorter, in my opinion, but at least this listen was around 11 or so hours instead of the usual 6, so there is access to a longer interlude with the inhabitants of 44 Scotland Street and their cohorts.

McCall Smith: What an incredible treat!

I read a review of one of the 44 Scotland Street series which was not at ALL complimentary, to say the least. I was saddened because the writer missed the whole point of these fabulous books and one of the best narrators I have ever heard: Robert Ian MacKenzie. Was he looking for blood? Perhaps, guts? These aren't those kind of books. Instead, McCall Smith gives us a glimpse into an absolutely incredible world of (gasp) ORDINARY people. And I have fallen in love with them. Totally. When one book ends, I feel as if all my friends went on vacation at the same time and I am left bereft and alone...well, maybe that might be overstating it a bit...but, honestly, Bertie, Big Lou, Olive, Domenica, Matthew, Miss Harmony and Tofu, etc... are so very wonderful.

No one was more surprised as I, that I could simply adore books which weren't jam-packed with the requisite blood and guts. You go, Alexander McCall Smith and Robert Ian Mac Kenzie! I'm hooked!

As good as usual...but

Mr. Smith is as good a writer as there is, however, why is this book titled The World According to Bertie? The character Bertie is just about the least mentioned character in the story. I was looking forward to getting a story FULL of information about my favorite Smith character, Bertie. What we get is a pitifully tiny installment on Bertie. I feel as though I've been hoodwinked, promised one thing and getting so much less. I'm very disappointed.

One of my absolute favorite authors!

Alexander McCall Smith is a wonderful author. I love all of his series.

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Title: Lolita

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrator: Jeremy Irons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-08

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 147 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Savagely funny and hauntingly sad, Lolita is Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel. It is the story of tortured college professor Humbert Humbert and his dangerous obsession with honey-skinned schoolgirl Dolores Haze.

Determined to possess his "Lolita", Humbert embarks on a disastrous journey across an American landscape littered with fast-food diners, gas stations and lonely motels. Brilliantly evocative and bitingly satirical in its depiction of postwar America, Lolita still has the power to shock and beguile.

Members Reviews:

Disturbingly Wonderful

Dear reader, listening to this audiobook version of Lolita was a fascinating experience: beautiful and poisonous, loving and loathing, sad and funny, sublime and debased, pure and rotten, refined and vulgar, European and American. The premise, a middle-aged man who is a connoisseur of "nymphets" (pre-pubescent girls with a seemingly "demoniac" and "soul-shattering charm") becomes the step-father of one, may shock or repulse. But Nabokov is unsettlingly effective at making us sympathize with his first-person narrator, Humbert Humbert. The novel is also interesting for being comprised of skewed pieces of various genres: buddy-road-adventure, romance, erotic, metafiction, tragedy, and European critique of America.

There is some French in the novel, but usually the context implies what Humbert is saying.

Jeremy Irons expresses his thorough understanding of Nabokov's novel throughout his reading of it. From the opening foreword by the outrageously pedantic American Dr. John Ray, Jr., followed immediately by the creepy sensual beauty of the opening lines of Humbert's story ("Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta" etc.), Irons' voice helps to seduce the reader more and more into Humbert's head and heart and world than the text does alone. He really becomes Humbert in his various moods, including poetic ecstasy, peevish anger, guilty despair, surreal delirium, and philosophic acceptance. It was a pleasure to hear him speaking in Lolita's vulgar American pre-teen voice one moment and in Humbert's world-weary European aesthete's the next. He also does a fine job with the other supporting characters, like Clare Quilty the amoral and successful playwright who speaks a debauched and effeminate American English that simulates by turns movie gangsters, British upper crusts, or French intellectuals.

Well worth listening to.

Consumate performance of this wonderful book

Jeremy Irons gives a perfect performance as Humbert Humbert (the narrator & fictional author of the story). His tone creates exactly the right amount of compulsion to listen while remaining a repellent character. If you know you want to read Lolita then this is the version you want.

As for the story, the way Nabokov brings the reader in as co-conspirator is both attractive & repellent. If we do not read Humbert's book, his crimes are not witnessed - possibly never committed. As reader we are complicit in every aspect of his crimes.

It's an incredible tale & we are invited right into Humbert's mind, where we are manipulated much the same way he manipulates everyone else around him.

The prose is remarkable.

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Title: The Man of Property

Subtitle: The Forsyte Saga, Book 1

Author: John Galsworthy

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 150 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The Man of Property, the first novel in John Galsworthy's epic social satire The Forsyte Saga, introduces us to Soames Forsyte, a London solicitor and prominent man of his important family. Accustomed to getting whatever he wants, he sets his sights with absolute determination on the beautiful Irene in spite of her pennilessness and indifference to him. Irene, a lover of art and beauty, eventually accepts his marriage proposal over a life of degraded poverty, but she swears to Soames that she will never be his property. When all his money fails to make up for the absence of love and Irene falls for a young architect, Soames resolves to force the obedience he could not buy.

Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 "for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".

Members Reviews:

Five stars aren't enough...

... for this masterpiece of writing and narration. Galsworthy's tender, wicked irony is perfectly captured and conveyed by David Case, who is THE master among book readers. Each character has his or her distinctive voice which perfectly expresses the personality Galsworthy intended. The richness of the relationships, the vivid social commentary, the HUMOR, are indeed Nobel Prize material.

I'm now listening to the whole series of nine novels for the third time, and the experience is as rich this time as it was the first. It's more than just fiction. It's a poem, an opera, a feast.

Brilliant!

Brilliant writing brilliantly read! Best Audible selection of 50 heard over several years.

A tale of epic proportions

I was first introduced to the Forsyte Sage through the 1960s BBC TV adaptation. This audiobook brings it all flooding back. A wonderful portrayal of late Victorian & Edwardian England. It is true that the opening chapters introduce a vast cast of characters, but the tale settles down and they disentangle themselves with skilled assistance of the narrator who is able to play each character quite distinctly. Highly recommended.

Gotta Love Those Forsytes!

I've been meaning to read The Forsyte Saga for years, having enjoyed both TV dramatizations (1967 and 2002). And even though I know the story, I very much enjoyed this first book in the saga. Galsworthy gives us a lush, detailed view of late Victorian England's upper middle class and their mania for property and respectability. Like every family, the Forsytes have their secrets and black sheep, and that makes them all the more intriguing. The focus here is the ramrod-spined solicitor Soames and his unhappy wife, Irene. Soames had courted Irene more for her beauty than for love, treating her like one of his exquisite objéts d'art. So determined was he to have her that he promised to let her go if she wanted her freedom. And here lies the crux of the story: Irene is dreadfully unhappy, yet Soames refuses to let her go.

Galsworthy has created a cast of one-of-a-kind characters (or if they now seem like sterotypes, they were one-of-a-kind when first created).

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Title: Loose Woman & Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Author: Sandra Cisneros

Narrator: Sandra Cisneros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-05

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

©1991 Sandra Cisneros; (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Radiant...these stories invite us into the souls of characters as unforgettable as a first kiss." (The New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Amazing book!!

This book bring so much heritage and culture to the table. This book becomes part of the family as if I'm sitting at the kitchen table listening to my Tia's gossip ;)

Choosing the story to listen to

It would be nice to be able to find Woman Hollering Creek without listening to 7 hours of Sandra Cisnero's work...

Difficult

Difficult stories. If you are looking for a story with a normal plot, this book is not for you.

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Title: Back to the Bedroom

Author: Janet Evanovich

Narrator: C.J. Critt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 323 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

She was the mysterious woman in the long black cloak. He was the sexy guy next door. They shared a common wall between their Capitol Hill townhouses and not much else...until disaster scored a direct hit on the mystery woman's bedroom and the sexy guy's heart. He baked her a cake, she learned to throw a football, there were some misunderstandings in the living room, some mishaps in the yard, and some romantic moments everywhere.

©1989, 2005 Janet Evanovich; (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers

Members Reviews:

SO SO

I usually rip through Evanovich's stories, but this one did not keep me sitting in a parked car with the motor running. It was predictable, scattered and not funny.

okay

this book was not as funny as I expected. It had it's moments but it's not a stephanie bond quality. Not a bad read if you aren't into the bond series. I guess I keep comparing everything to that and it seems as though the characters are repeated in this book just slightly different but not enough to make it better. Could only give it a 3 because it's not bad, not awsome, but not bad either.

Funny and lighthearted...

This was a most pleasant listen. I found myself smiling and even giggling out loud. You couldn't find two characters to like any more. The plot was a little outlandish but thats what generated the humor. The reader was a little stilted at first but all in all she did the voices pretty well. I was sorry to hear it end. I'm going to look for other books by Ms Evanovich.

Fun and quirky cast characters

A book that made me want to race to be with a crayons and my husband.

Super Easy Listening

Typical Janet Evanovich. Lots of aspects reminds me of Stephanie Plum and her boarder of Gandma Mazur. Light, entertaining and forgettable.