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Title: Stuck with a Stiff

Subtitle: The Stuck with a Series, Book 1

Author: D. D. Scott, David Slegg

Narrator: Karyn O'Bryant, Jeffrey Kafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-13

Publisher: D. D. Scott

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 77 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Amazon Top 100 Best-Selling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery author D. D. Scott is back...this time, with a brand new series and a new co-author, too.

The Stuck with a... Series is Castle-gone-country with the mom squad, Betty Boop, and My Cousin Vinny in the barnyard.

But this ain't no ordinary barnyard.

There's a lot more than a crazy rooster missing from the chicken coop, a bad ass cow causing a bunch of trouble, and a dog looking like a creature out of a storybook. There's a stiff too. A stiff - as in a dead guy - in a snow drift near the chicken coop.

Things aren't lookin' too good for Nicky Blane, who owns the farm. He's used to creating fictional stiffs for his best-selling novels, not defending himself from being framed for murder.

Bonus content included: In case you missed D. D.'s Stuck with a... Series Prequel Stuck with a Schmuck - which gives you a superfab fun setup to Stuck with a Stiff - no worries...'cause it's included!

About the authors:

D. D. Scott is an Amazon Top 100 Best-Selling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery author. She's also a Writer's go-to-gal for muse therapy and indie epublishing, the co-founder of The WG2E - The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing, and the founder of The RG2E - The Reader's Guide to E-Publishing. You can get all the scoop on her, her books, her online classes and live workshops, plus juicy tidbits too from her new cyber home...D. D. Scott-ville.

David Slegg is a debut humorous mystery author. He grew up on a cattle farm on the banks of the Wabash River and studied Ag Economics at Purdue. He's been just about everything under the sun - a waiter, a research technician, a bouncer, a salesman, a mapmaker, a bookseller, an ultra-marathon runner, an AutoCAD drafter, and an editor. In his spare time, he recently earned his MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) from Simmons College in Boston. His friends have been telling him for years that he should write a book. Let's just say he's had an unusually high number of improbably unlucky experiences. We're talking about the sorts of things that you'd find humorous if they were happening to a character in a novel but not so funny if they were happening to you. He's happy to be inflicting some of these situations on his characters. Hell, it's probably therapeutic.

Critic Reviews:

"....[O]ne of the top Romantic Comedy/Humorous Mystery writers out right now." (Ereader News Today)

"Superfab! WTG, DD & Dave, the hot, new fun couple of serial!" (Ruth Harris, New York Times best-selling author)

Members Reviews:

Had to check to see if it was abridged

Would you try another book from D. D. Scott and David Slegg and/or Karyn O'Bryant and Jeffrey Kafer ?

maybe, if it was really cheap

What could D. D. Scott and David Slegg have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

flesh it out -- it has a clever premise, but the jumps are too sudden. I kept thinking it was a badly abridged version. The extended family premise was pretty much wasted: they set up these potentially interesting relationships then did nothing with them.

What didnt you like about Karyn O'Bryant and Jeffrey Kafer s performance?

Dual-narration either works or it doesn't. This doesn't. The voices didn't complement each other.

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Title: 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' & 'An Urban Night Before Christmas'

Author: Clement Clarke Moore

Narrator: K. Anderson Yancy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-13

Publisher: SonicMovie.net, ChicagoWood Media, Wollcott & Sheridan, WSAPL.com

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore & "An Urban Night Before Christmas (Parody)" by Unknown

1. "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore: A father shares with his family what he learned from Santa's visit the night before.

2. "An Urban Night Before Christmas" by Unknown: In a parody of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus makes a visit to a housing project in "da hood".

Members Reviews:

story

They both were good stories. The second was very funny and creative. The bobby pin had me.

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Title: The Perfect Totem

Author: M. C. A. Hogarth

Narrator: Peter Katt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-13

Publisher: Maggie Hogarth

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Selling people new totem animals to solve their personality problems isn't a great way to make a living, but Sue doesn't complain until she gets a particularly annoying repeat customer. How many problems - and avatar animals - can one man possibly have?

Members Reviews:

Delightful Story with Great Narration

If you could sum up The Perfect Totem in three words, what would they be?

Insightful, Funny, Enjoyable

Who was your favorite character and why?

The girl, she responded realistically to the situations she encountered and I could relate to her.

Which scene was your favorite?

In the backroom when she was looking for something different

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

Yes, being a short story it was perfectly suited for an afternoon coffee break before heading back to work.

Any additional comments?

Great story, great narrator, definitely will recommend to my friends...

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Title: My Wife's Story

Author: Richard Babcock

Narrator: Bud Hedinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-12

Publisher: Richard Babcock

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

In this short fiction with echoes of both O. Henry and Hitchcock, a husband is driven to extremes by the anecdotal story that his wife repeats endlessly. Richard Babcock is the author of two novels and a long-time magazine editor in New York and Chicago.

The story has been a Kindle Singles best-seller since its publication in November 2011.

Members Reviews:

Smart and funny

I laughed out loud several times during this story. It has a dark humor to it, nicely written in a very easy and droll way. As the narrator told his story, I felt his frustration, pain and even hatred about his wife and her infernal little anecdote, and I really shouldn't have been amused by this man's suffering. But I was.

This couple fight in a way only the long-married and long-suffering can do, with a kind of passive aggression that builds up anger and resentment on both sides. And as this husband approaches his breaking point, the reader is sitting there in a ringside seat, waiting to see just who would have the final word. I was very interested in how, or even if, this man would succeed in shutting his wife up. The author kept me completely hooked to the very end, which was delivered with a cleverly ironic twist.

This Kindle Single is a good laugh, just funny and smartly written. It'll probably take about fifteen minutes of your time, but it's well worth it.

Suspend your disbelief -- it grows on you -- and still resonates with someone who shared a wonderful life for 42 years

There's quite a bit to like about this insightful short story; for example, on conversation Babcock has the husband say:

"A true conversation should contain a mutually rewarding exchange of information. She only exploited their words to construct a gateway for herself."

Her husband recognizes how cleverly his wife works her story into conversation after conversation, how she tells it over and over so well that new listeners (and some older ones to whom it is not new) are captivated by it, how many different areas she has become expert in -- the great ocean liners and their layouts, the silks and other finery of the very rich, etc. etc.

Nonetheless, he realizes that she has a totally private agenda -- "You just have to live with it.... She was using her story to slice me into pieces."

He realizes that "our marriage had grown into a finely balanced contest between her pleasure and my pain."

What happens then, how both husband and wife reach various crisis points, how they survive them -- or don't -- resonated with me who lived with great joy -- and some angst -- with the same woman for over forty years.

There was a slice of my life here, actually more than one, and I enjoyed seeing Babcock's version of how differently our lives together might have played out.

Robert C. Ross

April 2012

revised March 2015

Old-fashioned

My Wife's Story is a very old-fashioned story, suitable for a more sophisticated time. I could see this story in a magazine in the fifties or sixties, when the art of short story writing was kept in higher regard, and when a story could be told simply, but have this wonderful subtext. I could also see this, with minimal tweaking, as an Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

MWS is very much about the nature of relationships. I could say the nature of marriage, but I'd say there is some spill over into friendship and familial bonds.

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Title: Lionel Asbo

Subtitle: State of England

Author: Martin Amis

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 88 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behaviour Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love (and to protect a family secret that could be the death of him).

But just as he begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, his uncle - once again in a London prison - wins 140 million in the lottery, and upon his release, hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and poet. Strangely, however, Lionel's true nature remains uncompromised, while his problems, and therefore also Desmond's, seem only to multiply.

Members Reviews:

Jz...us! Just don't buy it for your Grans.

Amis can write the darkest satire with a lyrical heart that beats with warm, soft blood. 'Lionel ASBO' is sad, funny, gratuitous, sick and full of life. It is like Dickens was written by William Burroughs.

Covered in grit, the characters in this Amis novel seem at first like bizarre 21st century, Cruikshank caricatures that just keep bouncing back and forth in my head between the real, the surreal and the unreal -- so I keep on doubting my own palsied view of the world.

Anywho, this novel seems like a better-adjusted, less disquieting version of Amis' magnum opus 'Money'. Lionel ASBO has more heart, and just slightly less art. Amis traded a little of the floating world . . . for the heavy. Just please Jz...us don't buy it for Grans.

A train wreck you cannot look away from...

If you could sum up Lionel Asbo in three words, what would they be?

A distillation of real English people who you would not want to meet.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Lionel Asbo?

Who let the dogs in. And we will never know.

Which scene was your favorite?

The first family meeting at the country manor, Wormwood Scrubs.

If you could take any character from Lionel Asbo out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Definitely NOT Lionel Asbo

Any additional comments?

One of the most well written books I have enjoyed. The prose alone is worth the listen - and the story is superb. But if you are an American anglophile you might want to stay away. As a Brit in the US, the 'orrible English characters resonate - albeit disturbingly!

Classic Martin Amis - for better or worse

If you liked Keith from London Fields, you'll love Lionel. More to the point, you will love the Lionel presented in the voice of the astonishing Alex Jennings. I am sure that I had simply read this book, I would gave hated it. The story is classic Martin Amis, equal parts silly and mean-spirited, but Jennings's voice put it on a different plane. What was facile became cinematic; I could almost picture Ray Winstone, thick fingers wrapped around a can of Cobra, radiating menace as he explained the facts of life to his young protege . . .

amis wins again

wonderful dialogue and a fantastic narration performance which made it real to an American ear.

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Title: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Author: Jasper Fforde

Narrator: Gabrielle Kruger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-12

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself.

Please note: Chapter 13 has been intentionally omitted from this title.

Members Reviews:

wildly confusing - then it becomes gripping

If you could sum up One of Our Thursdays Is Missing in three words, what would they be?

Confusion, exasperation, resignation

What did you like best about this story?

The characters were great and the mad landscape became real

Which character as performed by Gabrielle Kruger was your favourite?

Thursday, of course.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Take a valium before you come.

Any additional comments?

Really enjoyed this book being narrated - I know the books well but this is the first audio version - I will certainly get more.

Clever witty can listen to again and again

Where does One of Our Thursdays Is Missing rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Top 5

What other book might you compare One of Our Thursdays Is Missing to, and why?

The whole series is great. Wish they were all on audible.

What about Gabrielle Krugers performance did you like?

Well paced, clear, correct intonation

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Not that kind of book

Any additional comments?

Really recommend

Worth a listen but not many more

I would like to start with i did enjoy this book. But you need to be able to pay attention to all the information given to you about the written world. I like to listen while doing my cleaning but found this one hard to keep track of the writers descriptions. Not sure if would listen to it again, but would probably find it easier the second time round and more enjoyable.

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Title: Revolting Youth

Subtitle: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp

Author: C. D. Payne

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

This hilarious sequel to the cult favorite Youth in Revolt is now a major motion picture starring Michael Cera and Justin Long.

In the wry and subversive further journals of Nick Twisp, we reunite with America's most literate teen diarist as he accidentally ignites criminal mayhem; seeks union with his love, Sheeni Saunders; and still has to live as a girl to avoid the police - an absolute must-read for all fans of the oddball humor of Youth in Revolt.

Critic Reviews:

"The funniest book you'll read this year." (Los Angeles Times)

"This hilariously cynical sex farce about bright teenagers combines creaky Shakespearean plot twists with real insights about growing up in the present chaos." (The Oregonian)

Members Reviews:

I'm only 10 minutes in...

Any additional comments?

I've read this book a zillion times over the years. I absolutely love this series. I just can't handle the narrator. He sounds like a middle aged county club wife from Birmingham Alabama and I have no freaking clue why. It's pretty ridiculous and really does butcher the Twispian charm. Total shame. I suggest only giving this a shot if you've read the book already. I'm sort of mentally auto correcting the narrator's voice in real time.

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Title: Skios

Author: Michael Frayn

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of science. He turns out to be surprisingly youthful, handsome, and charming. Everyone is soon eating out of his hands. No one more than Nikki, the foundation's attractive and efficient organizer.

Meanwhile, Nikki's old friend Georgie has rashly agreed to spend a furtive horizontal weekend with a notorious schemer. Trapped there with her instead is a pompous, balding individual called Dr. Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper - indeed, everything he possesses other than the text of a lecture on the scientific organization of science.

Critic Reviews:

"A witty Rube Goldberg construction of a novel...Think

Being There set to the staccato pacing of

Noises Off, and hold on to your funny bones." (

Library Journal)

"Entertaining...A lacerating satire." (

Publishers Weekly)

"...Perfect holiday reading...Frayn has a genius for creating believable people out of the most meagre of details." (

The Spectator)

Members Reviews:

Didn't you mean skiers?

Funny but not slapsticky, and fresh. A good read when you're in the mood for something engaging and light.

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Title: Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Subtitle: Stephanie Plum, Book 15

Author: Janet Evanovich

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-12

Publisher: Headline Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Unbuckle your belt and pull up a chair. It's the spiciest, sauciest, most rib-sticking Plum yet.

Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head - literally. Throw in some spice: Bail bonds office worker Lula is witness to the crime, and the only one she'll talk to is Trenton cop, Joe Morelli. Pump up the heat: Chipotle's sponsor is offering a million dollar reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the capture of the killers.

Stir the pot: Lula recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the moolah. Add a secret ingredient: Stephanie Plum's Grandma Mazur. Enough said. Bring to a boil: Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, A.K.A. Ranger, during the day. Can Stephanie hunt down two killers, a traitor, five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, solve Ranger's problems, and not jump his bones? Warning: Habanero hot. So good you'll want seconds.

Members Reviews:

It was funny, it had a lot of laughs

I usually borrow these books from the online library, but they don't have this one, despite having all the rest, so I had to buy it. I'm not sorry I bought it. It was funny, it had a lot of laughs, and it was true to the series.

I would, however, really like it if JE would stop describing every house everyone lives in and changing a lot of details about things. Just as an example, Morelli's house came from his Aunt Rose. When he got it, the first time it was introduced, she gave all her furniture to his sister and he had to bring in his. Later in the series, some of the furniture was hers to begin with and he inherited it. HUH? I am also tired of reading how the houses are laid out. If you have read the ones leading up to 15, you've learned all that. If you haven't read 1-14, what are you doing with 15 in your hands? I do, however, always read curiously to know who lives in the house shared with the Plum family. Will it be Mrs. Ciak or Mable Markowitz? It changes. Why is that? Does no one edit these books? Does consistency not matter? Whoever she is, she always bakes and is very poor. That remains, but her name switches back and forth. Big Blue is in every book, so we already all know it steers like a refrigerator on wheels and Stephanie hates it.

The thing is that I know these people. I grew up with them. They lived in my neighborhood. They are true to life, according to my real life. I know the sexual tension between two men and one woman, and I know how difficult it is to know what to do. I know the big and beautiful black woman, although my friend was never a "ho". I know the Italian father just trying to cope with the women around him always doing something that makes no sense and him being out of the loop on everything but the fact that his dinner had better be on that table when the time comes!

I laughed out loud at many of the scenes. Lula cracks me up. She is on target with a lot of what she says, she plays her race card as a trump, she plays her big and beautiful card like the ace of trump. She's got it. She's intelligent and it comes out every once in a while, but she plays dumb in a lot of things, too. Stephanie is so hopelessly confused by the men in her life that she can't do much right.

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Title: The Christmas Turkeys and Other Misadventures of the Season

Author: Gerald R. Toner

Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-11

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Whether Christmas is a time of unbridled joy, a season of past reflections, or an ordeal to be endured until the return to normalcy after the New Year, its impact is pervasive in most of our lives. Everyone's feelings are super sensitized, every emotion is heightened. The happy become giddy, the sad become despondent, the lonely become lonelier - unless, yes, unless - the magic of Christmas has its way.

So it is for the characters in these stories. They are ordinary people, grinding through the ordinary events of ordinary Decembers. But all find a moment of Christmas magic in the midst of their misadventures that changes the perspective - making the ordinary slightly extraordinary.

In this new collection of Christmas stories, Gerald R Toner again reminds us that small miracles are revealed during the holidays. Styled 'misadventures of the season', these contemporary tales tell us that the best Christmas gifts are not wrapped in colorful paper and ribbon, but arise from the human spirit. So pour a glass of Yuletide cheer or gather the family around steaming cups of hot chocolate and enjoy!

Members Reviews:

Full of Christmas Spirit!

This is a great book of short stories about wonderful, everyday Christmas stories! Each story is unique- and full of holiday wonder. My favorite was the story about the party in the Village. As I listened I felt like I was there at the party and my heart ached for the neighbor. The ending was unexpected and made me think about the people who live near me and how we really don't take time to know our neighbors. A truly wonderful book!