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Title: Mothers and Other Liars

Author: Amy Bourret

Narrator: Blair Sams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

How far will a mother go to save her child? Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting 19-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a precocious, animal loving imp, and Ruby has built a family for them with a wonderful community of friends and her boyfriend of three years. Life is good. Until the day Ruby reads a magazine article about parents searching for an infant kidnapped by car-jackers. Then Ruby faces a choice no mother should have to make. A choice that will change both her and Lark's lives forever.

Critic Reviews:

"Watch your back, Jodi Picoult! Here comes Bourret, a Yale-trained lawyer who practiced child-advocacy law and draws on past experiences for her gripping first novel.... Bourret nails the character development and pacing that make a good novel compelling. She unfolds her well-written, dramatic story in tidbits that will make readers hungry for more. (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Listened far into the night: Hooked!

Great reader for this surprisingly well-written and engrossing novel about a young woman who discovers an abandoned infant in a rest-stop trash receptacle and decides to keep her. A decade later the child's biological parents are identified, throwing her life and that of her family into chaos and despair. Although unrealistic at times, it's a fun read.

A Fun Read.

Narration was spot on for this emotional rollercoaster. A wonderful story full of surprises. Very entertaining and even moving at times.

I dont know what to make of this book.

At first I liked it because it moved along quickly but after a while I felt it was TOO fast, like it started in the middle and rapidly sped through the chapters, which felt like a few sentences each. Every now and again it slowed to a complete stop when Ruby pondered the future or recalled the past like a screeching halt before barreling onwards. It got annoying after a while because the tempo never felt right and it became a little distracting.

The plot itself sounded interesting when I read the synopsis, and as the novel progressed it did keep me wondering what would happen next, however the more it went on, the more I thought that it was just one preposterous calamity after another.

In the end, it was a little too much over the this is too farfetched line for me to say I really liked it.

Depressing Narrator

Not a bad story, but the narrator's voice was SO depressing! She read as if she were going to burst into tears at any second and really (at least in my opinion) dragged the story down. I would have given the book another star, were it not for the narration.

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Title: Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

Subtitle: A Novel in Two Books

Author: Walter Moers

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 133 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Set in the land of Zamonia, this exuberant, highly original fantasy from Walter Moers features an unlikely hero. Rumo is a little Wolpertinga domesticated creature somewhere between a deer and a dogwho will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed with Dandelion, his talking sword, he fights his way through the Overworld and the Netherworld. He meets Rala, a beautiful Wolperting female; Urs of the Snows, who thinks more of cooking than of fighting; Gornab the Ninety-Ninth, the demented king of Netherworld; Professor Ostafan Kolibri, who goes in search of the Non-Existent Teenies; Professor Abdullah Nightingale, inventor of the chest-of-drawers oracle; and, worst luck, the deadly Metal Maiden.

Astonishingly inventive, amusing, and engrossing, Rumo is a captivating story from the unique imagination of Walter Moers. Filled with humor, this novel puts a new spin on the usual epic fantasy. The comparisons are manyDouglas Adams, Lewis Carrol, J. K. Rowling, Dr. Seuss, and R. Crumbbut Moers is clearly an original. Long live Zamonia!

Critic Reviews:

Equal parts J. K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silversteina work of monumental silliness. (Washington Post)

ExuberantFull of sly humor, this rambunctious novel will appeal to fans tired of the usual epic fantasy. (Publishers Weekly)

A brilliantly imagined, well-executed jaunt through strange lands full of wild characters. (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Headphones NOT recommended!

Any additional comments?

First of all, let me say I never write reviews, but have been driven to do so by the sheer awfulness of this book's sound-editing.

This was the usual Moers' listen. The story is full of tangents and is completely zany, but really a blast once you get in the groove. And quite a bit of Pinchot's narration is really quite good - the voices are definitely distinct characters and he paces things well.

HOWEVER. Whoever did the sound editing on this should be shot in both knees...twice. I was using earbuds when the character Dandelion was introduced, and I think my hearing has been permanently damaged. Whatever computer effects have been used on that voice are absolutely terrible: it sounds like a shrill, sing-song chipmunk on helium and is, if you're using any type of headphone, quite literally painful. I've switched to external speakers to finish the book to prevent hearing loss, but am now at risk of boyfriend loss as he's threatening to leave me if I don't make the "chipmunk from hell" stop.

So. Great book, but I think I'll finish it in print.

Hard to Listen to in Spots

The story is quite good, and even though this is apparently part of a series, I feel that the story stands by itself. The narration, however, varied from exceptionally good to exceptionally bad. The characters of Dandelion & Gornab were almost impossible for me to listen to. They were read in such a screeching voice that I often had to turn the volume down so far that I missed subsequent lines by characters who were read in almost a whisper.

A book for Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams Fans

A whacky witty read. Not for those with irony poor blood. The narration and performance were well suited to this story.

Miraculous Indeed

It took me a couple hours of listening to get into it, but once I did I was hooked.

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Título: La isla de los amores infinitos [The Island of Eternal Love]

Autor: Daína Chaviano

Narrador: Pilar Laguna

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 28 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-12-10

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 13 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Tres familias de orígenes y culturas dispares protagonizan esta apasionante saga de emigrantes que recalan en Cuba y cuyos destinos a lo largo de más de 150 años correrán parejos con los de la bella isla. Desde el Miami actual, la historia retrocede hasta 1856, cuando entran en contacto los personajes, procedentes de China, España y África, y surge el amor, que hallará una mágica continuidad un siglo más tarde. Una hermosa historia de esperanzas y sueños rotos, de nostalgia, exilio y amores unidos por el destino.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Chinese influence in Cuba

If you could sum up La isla de los amores infinitos [The Island of Eternal Love] in three words, what would they be?

I really like to learn about the history of civilization and this novel provided a pretty good insight of Chinese emigration in Cuba.

Who was your favorite character and why?

All

What didnt you like about Pilar Lagunas performance?

Uhhh, she have an accent from Spain, perhaps it would had been more appropriate if a cuban desendent have narated the story.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Well a bit sad about what the cuban revolution did to the cuban citizens

Migrants and other ghosts in a classic novel.

This is a great, sweeping, magical realist novel of Cuba and the diaspora to Miami, reminding me of Allende's "The House of Spirits". It is very much a ghost story, with the thread being the tales of the ghost's family over several generations, which finally links with the 'real' heroine's life. The evocation of the attitudes and times of the various branches of the family - negro/mulatto, spanish, and chinese are vivid and interesting, and the recreation of their interaction in Cuba lively and enjoyable. The ghostly elements seemed to fit the characters, and so to be a way of enriching them, even to this rationalist reader. It has a strong theme of what it is to be a migrant and so only partly rooted in the place where each of the characters finds themselves. This range of characters, places, and times, all of which are intercut with the present, was a bit of a challenge in an audiobook. (I think the printed version has a family tree to refer to! This was read out, but my memory is not sharp enough to grasp and recall so much information.) The language is rich and enjoyable but was by itself a challenge to my limited Spanish. In summary, to be recommended as a classic novel, which will encourage me to search out others by Daina Chaviano.I thoroughly enjoyed the reading by Pilar Laguna.

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Title: Once Upon a More Enlightened Time

Subtitle: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Author: James Finn Garner

Narrator: James Finn Garner

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Spurred by the overwhelming success of the million-copy best seller, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, James Finn Garner continues his quest to liberate "classic" fairy tales from their archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist and environmentally unsound prejudices.

In Once Upon a More Enlightened Time, Garner tackles many demeaning, culturally biased viewpoints through his retelling of such well-known tales as "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Tortoise and the Hare". He has striven to fashion these bedtime stories into literature that is totally free from bias and purged from the influences of a flawed cultural past in hopes of freeing our social consciousness from these blights.

If he succeeds, no longer will tortoises, hares, talking frogs, and other citizens of nature bear the burden of our insecurities. No longer will mer-people suffer because of their unique evolutionary niche. And no longer will capable young womyn sleep their lives away waiting for princes to come rescue them.

Members Reviews:

what is in liberals heads

Would you consider the audio edition of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time to be better than the print version?

You feel like you are watching a play, and your imagination can run wild on the set design.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I don't have a favorite character the stories are the way the P.C. world would want them to be.

Which character as performed by James Finn Garner was your favorite?

All

Who was the most memorable character of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time and why?

the witch in Hansel and Gretel

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Titel: Auch Deutsche unter den Opfern

Autor:: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre

Erzähler: Christian Ulmen, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 26 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-30-10

Herausgeber: tacheles! / Roof Music

Kategorien: Fiction, Humor

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Erstaunlich, wo überall Stuckrad-Barre mit Notizblock und Fotoapparat auftaucht, beeindruckend, wie nah er dran kommt, erhellend, was er dabei zu Tage fördert: Mit seinem Verfahren der teilnehmenden Beobachtung findet er Momente der Wahrheit inmitten von Vorgängen, die genau diese verschleiern sollen. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet diesmal die Politik: Stuckrad-Barre begleitet Michael Naumann, Angela Merkel, Frank-Walter Steinmeier und Guido Westerwelle im Wahlkampf, beobachtet mit Hans Magnus Enzensberger Kundgebungen in Bayern - und bei Obamas Rede an der Siegessäule steht der Autor natürlich mitten im Gedränge.

Er schaut Fernsehen mit Dieter Hildebrandt, mietet sich in Udo Lindenbergs Hotel ein, um dessen Comeback mitzuschreiben; er lässt sich von Herlinde Koelbl fotografieren, von Alexander Kluge filmen, und er versucht, mit Günter Grass zu diskutieren. Und so entsteht aus vielen Einzelbeobachtungen ein deutscher Klappaltar, aus vielen Texten eine Großerzählung, und wir sehen: Das ist die Zeit, in der wir leben, das sind die Dinge und Personen, die uns bewegen - das sind dann wohl: wir. Beschrieben von Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, dem Chronisten unserer Gegenwart.

Kritik Bewertungen:

Gemeinsam mit Christian Ulmen hat Stuckrad-Barre seine Reportagen, Porträts, Mono- und Dialoge jetzt gelesen. Ein feines Sittengemälde von einem Gesellschaftsreporter, der immer besser wird.

--brigitte.de

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Titel: Handbuch des Kriegers des Lichts

Autor:: Paulo Coelho

Erzähler: Gert Heidenreich

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-18-10

Herausgeber: Diogenes Verlag AG

Bewertung: 1 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Handbuch und spiritueller Wegweiser mit Coelhos eigenen Reflexionen und denjenigen seiner persönlichen Wegbegleiter, die - von Sun Tsu und Lao Tse über das "I Ging", Gandhis Schriften und Herrigels "Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens" bis zu chassidischen Meditationen, islamischen Weisheitsbüchern und christlichen Pilgerlegenden - uns Mut und Lust machen, jenseits der Alltagsverstrickungen unser Schicksal anzupacken, den eigenen Lebenstraum zu finden und beharrlich dafür zu kämpfen.

(c)+(p) 2009 Diogenes Verlag

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Title: Dancing Girls

Author: Margaret Atwood

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-10

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers and dancing girls. All are ordinary people. Or are they?

In this splendid collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters that evoke laughter, compassion, terror and recognition.

Members Reviews:

Rich, satisfying and brilliant

Dancing Girls is a fabulous audiobook, the perfect combination of captivating stories, brilliant writing, and flawless reading. Margaret Atwood is a phenomenal writer, her work never fails to please, but there is something extra special about this collection of short stories that examine relationships between women and men - friendships, marriages, affairs. They are so rich that each is as satisfying as a novel, and deserve taking time to pause to reflect, or a second listen, before moving to the next one. The narrator, Laurel Lefkow, deserves a special mention too as her skilful and sensitive narration is the best of any that I have so far heard. She vividly brings the characters to life without obviously 'performing' and her narration perfectly matches the pace and tone of Atwood's writing. My only tiny niggle is with the production, because each story rapidly runs on to the next without pause. It would have been better if a short amount of silence had been added at the end of each story to herald the beginning of the next and allow time to hit pause. This is an audiobook that I will come back to again and again, and will no doubt find new treasures with each listen.

Perfect Match

Short stories are great on audio when you only have short periods to listen. I've been listening in 15 minute fragments when night feeding a new baby or in bed before I go to sleep at night. And as a general rule I prefer reading short story collections by one author.

Margaret Atwood is a consummate storyteller, and though her language is virtuosic in this early collection of stories (first published in 1977), it is never at the cost of story or character. There are repeated motifs and themes (the figure of The Poet looms large), which prove very satisfying if you are listening over an extended period of time. Her later works are foreshadowed here, and if you enjoy these stories I highly recommend continuing to read or listen to her novels.

These stories are not elaborate or complicated but showcase how elaborate and complex each human interior is. Definitely worth a listen.

Brilliant and satisfying

Dancing Girls is a fabulous audiobook, the perfect combination of captivating stories, brilliant writing, and flawless reading. Margaret Atwood is a phenomenal writer, her work never fails to please, but there is something extra special about this collection of short stories that examine relationships between women and men - friendships, marriages, affairs. They are so rich that each is as satisfying as a novel, and deserve taking time to pause to reflect, or a second listen, before moving to the next one. The narrator, Laurel Lefkow, deserves a special mention too as her skilful and sensitive narration is the best of any that I have so far heard.

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Titel: Naiv. Super. Aus der Edition Handverlesen

Autor:: Erlend Loe

Erzähler: Andreas Fröhlich

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 55 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-07-09

Herausgeber: Lauscherlounge

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der Text vermittelt Stimmungen, Atmosphärisches. Interessant ist der Roman, es ist Loes zweiter, weil er uns einiges verrät über das norwegische Lebensgefühl. Er strahlt Gelassenheit aus und macht das Aggressionsarme der norwegischen Welt in all seiner lebenbejahenden Besonderheit erfahrbar. Unterstrichen durch direkte Sprache und seine treffende Wortwahl, erschafft Loe eine ganz eigene Situationskomik.

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Titel: Kräutermärchen

Autor:: Folke Tegetthoff

Erzähler: Folke Tegetthoff

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-27-08

Herausgeber: LangenMüller Herbig

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Folke Tegetthoff schenkt uns in seiner berühmten und unnachahmlichen Erzählweise Märchen von den Pflanzen und Kräutern aus unserer Umgebung und von den Menschen, die sie verwenden. Er lässt so verlorengeglaubtes Wissen um die Kräfte und den Zauber der Natur lebendig werden. Eine inspirierende Sammlung, die schon heute als Klassiker der modernen Märchenliteratur gilt.

(c) 2008 LangenMüller Audio-Books

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Titel: Exit Ghost

Autor:: Philip Roth

Erzähler: Peter Fitz

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-30-08

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Glänzend offenbart der große Schauspieler Peter Fitz die ganze Kunst des Romanciers Philip Roths, er rhythmisiert dieses Meisterwerk, als läse er eine Partitur, wie ein Stück Musik dirigiert er den Strom des Erzählens.