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Title: I, Regress (Complete Series)

Author: Matt Berry, Tara Flynn

Narrator: Matt Berry, Katherine Parkinson, Morgana Robinson, Simon Greenall, Jack Klaff, Alex Lowe, Derek Griffiths

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-12-12

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Matt Berry plays a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through their subconscious minds. Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who has come to him for a different problem (quitting smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing. Also starring Katherine Parkinson, Morgana Robinson, Simon Greenall, Jack Klaff, Tara Flynn, Alex Lowe, and Derek Griffiths. Produced by Sam Bryant.

Members Reviews:

Great fan of Matt Berry , shame he isnt doing more

loved it ... awesome dark humour. He definitely needs to do more. 'too much hair for a young man' lol

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Title: The Alchemist: CliffsNotes

Author: Adam Sexton

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-12

Publisher: CliffsNotes on Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The CliffsNotes study guide on Paul Coehlo's The Alchemist supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read The Alchemist.

Reading a literary work doesnt mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Coehlo's The Alchemist. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more. For further information on Coehlo's The Alchemist, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com.

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Title: An Unexpected Guest

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Anne Korkeakivi

Narrator: Ellen Archer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband's career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she discovers is a suspected terrorist. More unnerving is a recurring face in the crowd, one that belonged to another, darker era of her life. One she never expected to see again. But it can't be him - he's been dead for 20 years....

Like Virginia Woolf did in Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.

Critic Reviews:

"Anne Korkeakivi's writing has all the best qualities of an Ishiguro novel. Clare, a seemingly selfless diplomat's wife, the epitome of restraint and hermetic detachment, unravels before us into a woman of dangerous allegiances, passions, and moral dilemmas, in prose that is both beautiful and razor sharp. Paris is depicted with subtle complexity, a city that reposes as it threatens, full of scorn and grace. Korkeakivi's sense of detail is remarkable while grounded in authenticity. An Unexpected Guest is a feast of a novel." (George Hagen, author of The Laments)

"A taut, tender, suspenseful novel, delicately told." (Fernanda Eberstadt, author of Rat and The Furies)

"Anne Korkeakivi writes wonderfully about embassy manners, food, and Paris, and she writes even better about the darker world that threatens to disrupt not just Clare's seating plan for dinner but her entire life. An Unexpected Guest, like its heroine, is a novel of great elegance, enormous surprises, and unexpected depths." (Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street)

Members Reviews:

Keeps you guessing.

Enjoyed the inner view of a diplomat's life from a wife's perspective. The intrigue about her past keeps the reader guessing.

One day in the life

When an author can take a few loose threads of a plot and bring them all together in a very full story, I find myself in book heaven. I honestly wasn't expecting that much when I started this book. What could be riveting about one day in the life of a deputy ambassador's wife in Paris preparing a dinner party that evening? Yet, the story builds and builds until you are hooked and can't stop listening.

For a story of this type, characters matter. Anne Korkeakivi delivered with very believable but interesting people.

If you are a fan of the classic novels "Mrs. Dalloway" or "The Hours", you will find this book very comparable. The main difference, and NO spoilers here, but the ending is fantastic.

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Title: Wish You Were Here

Author: Graham Swift

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.

For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey - to receive his brothers remains, but it is also a journey into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellies past.

Wish You Were Hereis both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with Graham Swifts love of the local and full of humor and tenderness in the face of tragedy, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines - the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war - as heartwrenching personal truth.

Graham Swift is the author of eight novels, including the Booker Prizewinning Last Orders and Waterland, which won the Guardian Fiction Award. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He lives in London.

Critic Reviews:

Swift weaves a story which is as much a lament for a vanished way of life as an attack on the madness of modernity. With unmistakable echoes of Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster, he portrays a rural England that is no longer merely under threat, but has been comprehensively vanquished. (Times Literary Supplement(London))

Members Reviews:

Winners and losers alike go through abundant pain and scant joy, those who fare best just don't acknowledge defeat

Manly, controlled tale of parting and deaths in a rural family. Winners and losers alike

go through abundant pain and scant joy, those who fare best just don't

acknowledge defeat. Swift is a master story-teller and an immense connosseur of

human emotions, a modern master.Nature is lovingly described, shades of great

English poetry. It stays with you.

intense and too long

I really enjoy Graham Swift. My book group thought it was too long. It really seems like a man's book on the style of "All the Pretty Horses" with very little dialog. It was mostly introspection and the narrator was able to see all the characters' thoughts so you weren't left guessing about motivations.

a good read

There's a lot to discuss in relation to war, nation, and hero discourse. At the asme time, there is a subtle suspense that could be a bit slow, but overall adds to the quiet grace of the novel.

Another must read

One of the best writers of today..........

Extraordinary!

I've followed Swift for years and he just gets better and better. In Wish You Were Here Jack Luxton, a dairy farmer turned resort keeper who is haunted by his family's past, waits for his wife who is out in their car while a storm rages. Jack has his shotgun ready on the bed. This is the frame for what happens in the rest of the novel -the story behind the story. The reader is taken back to this situation as it progresses.

The rest of the tale is comprised of all the threads which lead up to that situation in the bedroom.

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Titel: Freiheit

Autor:: Jonathan Franzen

Erzähler: Ulrich Matthes

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 19 hrs and 28 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-29-12

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Patty und Walter Berglund - Vorzeigeeltern und fast schon ideale Nachbarn in ihrer selbstrenovierten viktorianischen Villa in St. Paul - geben plötzlich Rätsel auf: Ihr halbwüchsiger Sohn zieht zur proletenhaften republikanischen Familie nebenan, Walter lässt sich zum Schutz einer einzigen Vogelart auf einen zwielichtigen Pakt mit der Kohleindustrie ein, und Patty, Exsportlerin und Eins-a-Hausfrau, entpuppt sich als sonderbar. Auf einmal lebt Patty ihre kühnsten Träume, führt sie ein Leben ohne Selbstbetrug.

©2010 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH (P)2010 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg/Hessischer Rundfunk/Der Hörverlag

Kritik Bewertungen:

Jonathan Franzen ist ein Meister des Hinhörens, ein Mann mit einem absoluten Gehör für die zurückgehaltene Aggressivität in Familiengesprächen, für die Zwischentöne des liebevollen Erpressens und des offenbarenden Verbergens.

-- Süddeutsche Zeitung

Franzens punktgenaue Analyse einer sich selbst aushöhlenden, amerikanischen Idylle zergeht Matthes auf der Zunge.

-- Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

Gelesen vom fabelhaften Ulrich Matthes, ist dieses Hörbuch eine der besten Veröffentlichungen des Jahres.

-- Piranha

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Title: The Next Right Thing

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Dan Barden

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Randy Chalmers has to admit he'd be dead or in prison were it not for Terry Elias. Thanks to Terry's coaching and an endless stream of AA meetings Randy's been off the booze for eight years, has a successful new career, and is thriving in a healthy relationship. All is well until Terry is found dead of a heroin overdose.

Convinced that something (or someone) must have pushed him, Randy is soon off on a dry-drunk quest for answers. When his suspicions ultimately connect Terry's death to the activities of a recently appointed Superior Court judge, Randy has to ask himself: Is he really onto something or just suffering from grief and paranoia?

Critic Reviews:

"Everything you could hope for from a novel: The Next Right Thing is suspenseful, hilarious, angry - above all, wildly original. I only wish I'd written it myself. (Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad)

"[An] engaging debut... [Contains] a healthy amount of verve and black comedy... succeeds on the emotional and physical muscle of its narrator." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Dan Bardens The Next Right Thing is The Long Goodbye in rehab. It's fierce and funny and absolutely worthy of its predecessors - like them, Bardens hard-boiled tale is really an inquiry into male love and grief, and the state of the American heart." (Jonathan Lethem)

Members Reviews:

Much ado bout nutin'

What disappointed you about The Next Right Thing?

I couldn't finish this. All the characters were a bunch of drama queens, getting way too involved in each other's busness and making mountains out of molehills... Hated it!

What do you think your next listen will be?

The possibilities are endless

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He read it aloud.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Not really...

Any additional comments?

No.

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Title: How It All Began

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Penelope Lively

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-12

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter, Rose, cannot accompany her employer, Lord Peters, to Manchester, which means his niece, Marion, has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which isjust the beginning of the ensuing chain of life-altering events.

In this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can cause marriages to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who might never have met to find each other, and entire lives to become irrevocably changed.

Critic Reviews:

" Whatever your age, How It All Began is a splendid tonic." (Telegraph)

"A sublime storyteller." (Guardian)

Members Reviews:

It didn't work for me

This book is about the impossible to anticipate repercussions of a one off event that happens to Charlotte at the start of the book. I liked the idea and so downloaded the book, but I found the characters both unlikeable and unrealistic. The style of writing was jarring as it moved from one story to the next, an effect emphasised by the narrator with a lot of pauses and some truly dreadful accents. I have since wondered if I would have enjoyed the book a lot more if I had actually read it rather than listened to it being read, I think chances are I would have.

If you like a book that fleetingly touches on a number of concurrent tales then this may well be a book for you. If you prefer singular, more detailed accounts then this might not be your cup of tea. That said, it is a very easy listen (awful accents aside) so would probably also suit as a beach holiday book just fine.

A delightful and insightful listen

Every woman will relate to the characters Penelope Lively draws so sympathetically in this beautifully written novel. Charlotte, in her 70s, is knocked down by a mugger and has to adjust to a sudden loss of independence. Her daughter Rose, middle-aged, falls in love. Stella has to deal with her errant husband, and Marion with the challenges of running a business as the recession bites. All their lives, and those of the men in them, change as a result of that casual mugging. The author understands so well what makes them all tick, and writes with delicacy and humour. It would be a great read but is an even greater listen because of Anna Bentinck's perfectly nuanced reading. All the characters come alive and she respects every word of the text. I have listened to it twice and found it as enjoyable the second time around. Now off to get every other Penelope Lively and anything else read by Anna Benctinck!

Multi layered and original!

Any additional comments?

So many books on the subject of women's lives and relationships are formulaic. This was a little different. Intelligently written, rich characters and not the usual predictable stuff. The narration was also first class.

Amusing, enjoyable, lovely structure

Penelope Lively does a very good job with the 'interconnectedness of all things'. The novel is structured with a lot of balance and movement, from person to person, picking up on their changing fortunes and feelings.

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Title: The Great Wheel

Author: Ian R. MacLeod

Narrator: Colin Mace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Locus Winner for Best First Novel.

In a wretched third world of the future, a young priest from England pursues the mystery of a disease. Although Father John has lost his faith, he does his best to administer prayers and medicine to the people of a Borderer town in what long ago was Northern Africa. He wonders why so many in the Endless City are dying of bludrut - myeloid leukemia - and begins to suspect that the reason is the koiyl leaf, which the people chew as an opiate.

Investigating, John encounters poverty and politics. He travels to a far valley of radioactive death, his guide a witch-woman. And as he questions a Europe grown too perfect and falls in love with a Borderer, he is visited, constantly, disturbingly, by childhood memories of harvest fairs at Hemhill and a wonderful older brother.

Members Reviews:

Long and depressing

Well written and atmopheric this is a dystopia set in the middle east of the foture. Could have benefitted from some pruning.

Breathtaking...

There is nothing quite like the keen pleasure of discovering an hitherto unknown author. Ian MacLeod's first novel, The Great Wheel, I found to be extraordinarily good. The writing is gentle, controlled, and luminous, the plot lacking the violent set-pieces that often crop up in contemporary sci-fi, while leading the reader inexorably along on the protagonist's odyssey of the heart, as he seeks to understand his own life as a Catholic priest ministering to the impoverished people inhabiting what's left of the southern Mediterranean in the later 22nd century. I am thoroughly impressed, and looking forward to reading more of this fine author. YMMD, of course...

Well respected short story author's first novel.

Stories by macleod have been in various yr's best for years. Sadly people don't subscribe ,or even know about, magazines like Asimov's ([...]) or interzone. This is considered to be one of the best 1st sf novels of its year. Very British ,with scot elements, but some say the african cultures more detailed. It describes a world ravaged by eco-collapse where 1st & 3rd worlders are almost untouchables to each other. Probably worth a try, but I think macleod's on the literary end of the sf spectrum so it's probably not easy reading.

The sacred and the profane

In a world where viruses are manipulated to protect the first worlders, and a leaf is chewed to control the third worlders, it is comforting to note that faith exists at all, and that the delving into questions of faith is still a worthy topic for discussion. The loss and recovery of faith is the most basic of human stories, which is why this book appealed to me so much. Could it be that the conflict of faith is exascerbated by the separation of the sacred and the profane? Are the concepts of sacredness and profanity useless societal constructs that when torn down lead to a much fuller realization of the potential of the human spirit? This book begins to examine these crucial questions.

Insightful and engaging, but too wordy

This novel is a triumph for first time novelist Ian R. Macleod. The plot development is top notch, matching the character progression. The best thing about this novel is also it's downfall, the detailed description. Although it is obvious Macleod has a talent for imagery, his used of adverbs can become trying on the reader, forcing him/her too slow down and find out what it is they just read at times.

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Title: Bad Kitty

Author: Nick Bruel

Narrator: Vanessa Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-12

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

From the creator of The New York Times best seller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk - four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy hen she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are Asparagus, Beets, Cauliflower, Dill... and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she: Ate my homework, Bit grandma, Clawed the curtains, Damaged the dishes, and so on, through Z. Only when tastier things arrive (An Assortment of Anchovies, Buffalo Burritos, Chicken Cheesecake...) does she Apologize to Grandma.

Members Reviews:

Good book to start the kids.

My daughter has four audible books and she enjoys them. She will listen to them at night to go to sleep or in the car. Short and sweet,she loves them.

3 versions?!?

First, the story is read by Vanessa Williams. Second, it is read by Vanessa Williams with meows on when to turn the page. Third, it is read by Nick Bruel in a classroom somewhere with a bunch of noise and chanting from the students. Argh!

What is wrong with an audio book being an audio book? This download doesn't even contain pictures!

I feel like Bad Kitty! Bad Kitty is bad because the humans ran out of cat food. Cats don't eat asparagus and all the other vegetables listed. My cats would be mad, too! I'm mad because the simple concept of an audio book is lost on people who forget we are BUYING AUDIO BOOKS!!!

Nuf said.

SUCKED !!!WORST THING EVER

THEY DIDNT EVEN READ A BAD KITTY IT WAS JUST ABOUT HIS STUPID FOOD AND HOW BAD HE WAS WITCH WASNT EVEN THAT BAD !!!! Lamest book eveeeeeeeerrrrrr!!!!

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Titel: Rücken an Rücken

Autor:: Julia Franck

Erzähler: Julia Franck

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-02-11

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Julia Franck liest diese Geschichte über eine Liebe ohne Rückhalt und Illusionen mit tragischem Ausgang selbst, balanciert ihre Sätze sanft aus, mit großem Feingefühl und Gespür für das Schicksal ihrer Figuren.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Die Sensation des Hörbuchs ist aber die Lesung von Julia Franck selbst. Zärtlich, mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen, hat die Autorin den Hörer sofort gefesselt.

-- Durchblick

Star-Autorin Julia Franck liest selbst aus ihrem Meisterwerk, das sich von der Familiengeschichte zum Gesellschaftsroman entwickelt.

-- Clivia

Julia Franck ist eine blendende Rezitatorin ihres eigenen Buches.

-- Wiesbadener Kurier