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Title: Other People

Author: Sol Stein

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of three very different men in love with the same woman. It is also the story of that woman, Francine Widmer.

Francine, 27, beautiful, intelligent, and resourceful, insists on running her own life. Suddenly, control of Francine's life falls apart when she is raped and finds that the doctors and the police are indifferent to the enormity of the crime. Francine wants revenge, and she selects as her instrument the best criminal lawyer in the country. Then more secrets of the dark side of love come to light through the rapist's wife and the attorney's immigrant father.

As each brilliantly rendered character brings his or her case to center stage, we see how varied the shapes of love are, until there comes the one that proves irresistible. This is the triumphant story about the true source of all of life's difficult problems and exciting opportunities: other people.

Members Reviews:

A very entertaining and interesting book

If you like psychology you will definitely like this book. It is well written, beautifully narrated and very interesting with some deep insights into people's psyches. But above all it is entertaining. The author takes you inside the mind of several people that are brought together as a result of the rape of a young woman. The rapist, the analyst, the father and the lawyer and how it affects all of them including the victim who is above all a survivor. It does not dwell into the ugliest aspects of rape but more into how everyone involved deals and is affected by it and how it brings out sides of people's personalities that would otherwise be kept hidden. It is a wonderfully long book that I heard in two sessions. I hope Audible publishes more by the same author Sol Stein and if possible also narrated by Marguerite Gavin who does a wonderful job.

Intense and enjoyable

I bought this book after listening to Sol Stein's book on writing. It is evident after listening to Other People that he employs the techniques he teaches. The narrator is difficult to understand at first and seems to clip words to make the story seem fast pace...The story is good enough to stand on its own and draws the reader despite the narrator's interpretation. It is quick paced, unpredictable enough to be interesting and quite enjoyable even though it was very graphic at times.

Soft Porn

It's a shame that there's not a minus stars for this book. This is the worst book I have downloaded. I am not a prude; however, this is nothing but soft porn and it is not even good porn!! This book is so bad it should be taken off audible.

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Title: The Laments

Author: George Hagen

Narrator: Richard Matthews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-04

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Constantly moving, from South Africa to the Persian Gulf, to Rhodesia, to England, and ultimately to suburban New Jersey, the Laments are a quirky and lovable family who live by the motto "anywhere but here." The main character, Will Lament, whom the Laments take home from the hospital as a result of a bizarre mix-up, grows up feeling that he doesn't belong. For after all, there is his father, an idealistic engineer; his mother, a woman of indomitable spirit with a passion for Shakespeare; and his brothers, twins Marcus and Julius, who are nothing but trouble. What makes this quirky family so universal is Will's search for identity and the Laments' unwieldy love for one another, even in the most difficult of times.

©2004 George Hagen; (P)2004 Books on Tape

Critic Reviews:

"A family story on speed, with a jolt of black comedy that makes it a close relative to that greatest of all American family stories, The Simpsons." (The New York Times Book Review)

"A funny, touching novel about the meaning of family." (Publishers Weekly)

"Mr. Hagen has shaped an affectionate family portrait in which the characters come vividly to life, no matter how adrift they may be." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Highly original

This was one of the most enjoyable novels I have read in a while. I can't exactly say why I enjoyed this book so immensely. Perhaps, the story of this family that picks up and moves to different parts of the world every few years strikes a chord for how we all sometimes experience the feeling of being an outsider. Who but an outsider can appreciate the dysfunctionality that everyone else inside a culture takes for granted? Who but an outsider can feel the loss of not belonging? This is a quick-paced, very entertaining book. While it has its share of tragic moments, it is also full of "laugh out loud" humor, intelligent asides, and dialogue that rings true. The characters of all ages - from the young children to the grandmother - vividly drawn. The narrator did an excellent job. He not only gave each character a voice, but changed accents (South African, British, American) adroitly.

Reminded me of a John Irving novel

I tremendously enjoyed this audiobook and was constantly thinking of how very John Irving-like the story seemed....it's a bit weird, with tragic moments presented in a very unsentimental way. Seems contemporary and realistic even in its portrayal of the past, very appealing, drew me in immediately. The reader does a good job and I would be very eager to read another book by this author or to hear this narrator again.

I loved this book.

I read this book in hardcover and then listened to it again. It was even better the second time around. George Hagen has an engaging style and kept my interest from start to finish. I hope that he will write more in the future.

Surprisingly engaging

My book group really liked this book. The characters were interesting, and the Laments' saga made for engaging discussion.

Wonderful narration, well-written character study

Would you listen to The Laments again? Why?

The characters stay with you though it may be due as much to the identities created by Richard Matthews' narration as the written word.

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Title: The Malefactor

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-03

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Seton ultimately sets his sights on the woman who conspired to betray him with her husband. He takes great pleasure in watching them suffer the pain he inflicts upon them. But a new young lover slowly starts to thaw the Malefactor's icy heart, prompting him to abandon his misanthropic plans. Is it too late?

Members Reviews:

New Ears Please.

The Malefactor, is an intriguing story that I almost didn't get to hear the end of. John Bolen has almost destroyed the only E. Phillips Oppenheim story on Audible's current list. I found it painful to listen to, especially his attempts at any female voice (which all sounded the same), and at one point had resolved to turn it off and buy the text instead as my own imagination could hardly have been worse. My two stars rating are both for the story, - about a man wrongly sent to prison for ten years to save the honour of the woman he loved. Once his sentence is served, he emerges a different creature, sworn to create as much hurt and wreak as much destruction on society as he has suffered in his life to date. Can human nature really be so permanently warped by injustice, or is healing possible for Sir Wingrave Seaton? My advice is to find a good copy of the book, read it, and enjoy finding out. Hopefully more Oppenheim titles are added to Audible one day, but please find a better narrator, - it shouldn't be hard!

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Title: The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Author: Sax Rohmer

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-03

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Fu-Manchu summons a poisonous cat, fiery hands of death and a mummy to hunt down the Reverend Eltham and obtain the coveted name of a secret agent in China. Neyland Smith and Dr. Petrie are subjected to the tortures of the wire jacket and Six Gates of Joyful wisdom as they attempt to thwart the evil Doctor and they narrowly escape death on the moors of West England. Has the beautiful Karamaneh returned to aid the nefarious Chinaman, or Smith and Petrie? Can the relentless, cruel master of the Yellow Peril be stopped this time?

Editorial Reviews:

Fans of classic dime-novels and Saturday TV serials will welcome The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu. Listeners approaching this tale as a cultural relic will have the best chance of sidestepping the hokey and rank stereotypes that drive this story of a "murderous Chinaman", endowed with "all the cruel cunning of that eastern race accumulated in one giant intellect". For those who like their fiction with a high pulp quotient, the villainous Fu Manchu's ingenious and unlikely ways of dispatching his victims will provide a series of cliffhangers that will tickle for hours, and narrator John Bolen brings an array of accents and a hamminess appropriate to the subject matter of Sax Rohmer's classic tale of histrionic Oriental villainy.

Members Reviews:

Mystery-Adventure at its Finest

In the first half of the 20th century, Sax Rohmer was one of the most widely read and highest paid popular fiction writers in the world. In the Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, he shows why.

Professor John Michael does a fine job putting the novel in historical context in his introduction. He describes Fu-Manchu as an embodiment of England's "King Fear" - that violence practiced by the West in the East will come back to haunt the West, and that a global insurgency will arise, intent on violently upsetting the balance of world power. No one in the US cannot presently identify with these terrific fears.

As for the novel itself - no, it is not Literature, but the stories are superbly crafted and always ingenious; you are constantly immersed in an ominous London mist where consciousness is as tenuous as a spider's web, Death lingers at every turn, and the Hydra-like organization you're up against has every intent in destroying Western civilization and you along with it. The stakes are high, and the enemy is always one step ahead... the novel is filled with so much shadow and fog, so many surprises and so much intrigue, and it is so masterfully drawn, so present, that it can be read repeatedly with delight. Or you can proceed to plow through the entire Fu-Manchu series, which I just may have to do. Come, Petrie!

Old-fashioned adventure

There is certainly no lack of adventure or suspense fiction available nowadays - everyone from Tom Clancy to Dan Brown to Lee Child to dozens of others depending on your tastes - but, for better or for worse, these modern novels are a different animal from the classic adventure tales of the early 1900s. Perhaps best exemplified by Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Tarzan series, these stories often bordered on the fantastic but retained a distinctly pulpy sense of storytelling and often a rather Victorian sense of sex and race. Other authors working in this era include the three H's: Haggard (She, King Solomon's Mines), Hilton (Lost Horizon) and Howard (Conan).

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Title: The Putt at the end of the World

Author: Lee K. Abbot, Dave Barry, more

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-01

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sex. Money. International terrorism. And, of course, the ultimate question- Can a compact backswing save the world? A clubhouseful of acclaimed authors pass the baton (or at least the six-iron) to creat an ensemble tour de force of suspense, romance, and hilarity on the links. Golf is not a team sport. But who says fiction can't be? Get ready.

Alfonzo Zamora is the venerable Mexican Senior player who's just discovered he's going blind. Billy Sprague is the country club pro with a swing as elegant as an eagle flight- except when money's on the line. Rita Shughnessy is the hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-luck golfer on the women's pro tour.

All three receive an invitation from mulltibillionaire Phillip Bates, founder of Macrodyne Software. To inaugurate his dazzling new course in Scotland. Bates is spending millions to host a tournament starring the superpro trio. The gala will welcome world leaders in the name of global peace and the universal language of golf. The weekend volley will attract a long scorecard of wild and unanticipated guests, including the world's most elusive environmental terrorist, a caddish pro who can't pass the Rorschard test, a sexy male-female counterterrorist team who keep driving into traps of their own making, a certain naked golfer making a bid for his hole in one, and enough plastique to end the world as we know it . . .

And in an apocalyptic final play that will determine the fate of the world, ecoterrorists will converge on the course for an explosive putt to end all putts. The "Good Walk" has never been more fun!

Chapter One, Deep Rough, Copyright ©2000 by Les Standiford, Chapter Two, Blasting Out, Copyright ©2000 by Ridley Pearson, Chapter Three, Hang Up on the Lip, Copyright ©2000 by Tami Hoag, Chapter Four, Never Up, Never In, Copyright ©2000 by Lee K. Abbott, Chapter Five, Tight Lies, Copyright ©2000 by Tim O'Brien, Chapter Six, Immovable Obstructions, Copyright ©2000 by Richard Bausch, Chapter Seven, Free Drop, Copyright ©2000 by Dave Barry, Chapter Eight, Digital Pronation, Copyright ©2000 by james W. Hall, Chapter Nine, Right into the Heart of the Cup, Copyright ©2000 by Hames Crumley, Epilogue, Curse of the Nineteenth Hole, Copyright ©2000 by Anonymous

Members Reviews:

Not what expected

This is not what I expected from Dave Barry. This is a novel and not the quip political satire i expected from Mr. Barry

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Title: Looking Back

Author: Belva Plain

Narrator: Anne Twomey

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-01

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Then something unexpected happens that forever alters their long, complicated friendship. A pivotal event, a shattering act of betrayal, shifts the balance of power between husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers. And in the months that follow, each of them will look at their families, their lives - and one another - differently.

And Cecile, Norma, and Amanda will never be the same.

Filled with the powerful storytelling and emotional romance that are Belva Plain's trademarks, Looking Back weaves magic as it captures the profound intimacy and drama in the lives of men and women.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Really good story but it seemed to end abruptly. Liked it but not my favorite of her work.

Engrossing story

Hard to put down. You get very interested in the lives of the characters. I didn't give 5 stars because at times the writing seemed like a soap opera.

Another of Belva Plain's good, solid novels.

Plain writes solid, interesting novels. Great story teller. I like the span of generational story telling folllowing multiple characters. Good.

A good read!

I have loved every book she has written and I loved this one as well. If you've never read one of her books, this one may hook you. The best thing is that she has written many wonderful books with some being true classics like "Evergreen".

Compelling, but depressing storyline. Too many deceitful, selfish characters

Rating 2.5 stars. _No graphic sexual content. Stand alone read.

OK READ. Unique storyline told from differing points of view, well developed characters, a complex ending, and an insightful look at the emotional and financial cost of infidelity and betrayal. HOWEVER, the dialogue is sometimes stilted, the deceitful, selfish behavior of several of the flawed characters is unpleasant, the repeated statement that the affair is "not harming" anyone becomes increasingly irritating, but the ultimate betrayal (justified by the betrayer) is so outrageously unacceptable, it is disturbing. Memorable, but not a "read again" kind of book.

THE STORY examines the friendship of three college friends from very different backgrounds. Cecile is stunningly beautiful and born to wealth and status. Norma has body image issues, but is also born to wealth. Amanda is lovely, poor, but so covets the wealth and statue enjoyed by her "best" friends she will do anything. Their futures become irrevocably intertwined by two events, 1) Without love, Amanda marries Norma's brother, who manages the family's real estate business, and 2) Cecile's husband, a gifted architect, works with her family's land development business. Unfortunately, gut-wrenching betrayal impacts everyone's future.

OVERALL, a sad, depressing, yet memorable, story that is often difficult to read. Try one of Plain's other books instead.

You may also enjoy the complex characters and storytelling of N. Bruhns, A. Stuart, and E. Palfrey. For good historical romance writers you might try Susanne Elizabeth, Jill Barnett, Susan Wiggs, or Kathleene Woodiwiss.

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Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 6: The Return of Note & The Ceremony (Dramatised)

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-10

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Warm, humorous, and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smiths hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswanas only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and been translated into 26 languages. These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exotic world of the books vividly to life.

The Return of Note finds Mma Ramotswe in a compromising situation when her past catches up with her. But things are looking brighter for her assistant, Mma Makutsi, when she takes up ballroom dancing...

The Ceremony sees Mma Ramotswes agency work under control at last, so she has time to take care of her own problems. Can she release her fiancé Mr J. L. B. Matekoni from his rash undertaking to do a charity parachute jump? And will the return of an old love jeopardise her plan to spring a romantic surprise on her husband-to-be?

Starring Claire Benedict as Mma Ramotswe and Nadine Marshall as Mma Makutsi, these dramatisations are guaranteed to appeal to all fans of the engaging lady detective.

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Title: No One to Trust

Author: Iris Johansen

Narrator: Kate Burton

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-02

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The best selling author of Body of Lies, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless new thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt - and the woman who is determined to hunt him down.

He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. What Rico Chavez wants most is Elena Kyler - and he wants her dead. Trained as an assassin, Elena now finds herself on the run from one dangerous man and turning to another for help.

Sean Galen was a man without illusions. He knew it was only desperation that caused Elena to accept his help. And yet he was determined to get this woman who had never been able to trust anyone or anything in her whole life to accept him as her ally. Galen and Elena know that Chavez' power and wealth mean there is no place they can be safe and no one they can trust - not even each other.

Soon a trail of horrifying murders will follow Galen and Elena across the country to a shattering showdown. For Chavez is a master of control and he wants more than just to take Elena's life. He wants her alive long enough to see him destroy every reason she has for living. And by the time he is through, he wants her to beg him to take the only thing she'll have left to give: her life.

Critic Reviews:

"With its taut plot and complex characters, this is vintage, fan-pleasing Johansen." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

No One To Trust

Excellent quick moving, writting. An intense read. I reccommend it highly!

Compared to 'Dead Aim' a dead loss

Iris Johansen's outlandish tales usually entertain the reader / listener with the struggles of the respective heroines to find their way in life, more or less grudgingly accepting the help of some special male. This time the story not only openly defies logic several times but also leaves a bad taste with it's careless treatment of the topic of rape. 'No(t) One To Trust' I usually listen to the sample, this time I didn't - and regretted it, since I had to suffer Galen's fake accent for seven long hours.

Excellent book but read too fast.

The reader was so fast it was hard to understand her. Different voices were good the majority of the time but there were a couple of slips. Story line excellent & kept the listener not wanting to stop - the twists kept it from being too predictable.

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Title: Orphan Train: Summary and Analysis

Author: Bibliomaniac

Narrator: Alan Smithee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-17

Publisher: S&S Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Orphan Train tells the story of Niamh, a young Irish girl orphaned by a fire in 1920s New York. Like many orphans at that time, she is put on a train heading west.

Niamh struggles to find a home, meeting friends and losing them, as well as losing her innocence and missing out on her childhood. It also tells the story of Molly, a foster-care kid who is all prickly edges and anti-social disorders. She is a modern, Internet-searching woman who has grown old fast in the hands of the system. These two women meet, share their extraordinary stories, and in the process find and define their own sort of family.

This summary will allow you to enjoy the story that's being told, and also the wider meaning it explores.

Inside you'll find:

Disclaimer: This book serves as an accompaniment to the best-seller Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline.

It is meant to broaden the listener's understanding of the book and to offer some insights which can easily be overlooked.

You should order a copy of the actual book before listening to this.

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Title: The Boy Who Followed Ripley

Subtitle: A Virago Modern Classic

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Narrator: Peter Brooke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception.

Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.

The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.

Members Reviews:

Very much enjoyed the earlier Ripley books

Very much enjoyed the earlier Ripley books, but this one I think strays too much into hidden homosexual desires of Ripley and convolutions related to that. Don't get me wrong: I don't mind that Ripley has interest in men. But the plot drags on and on, little moments such as a lunch or dinner being elongated - god knows why. I could not finish it.

Not this one

I liked practically all Highsmith's books but not this one. Became repititous and boring and eventually I gave up. The Ripley chracter seemed a totally different person as characterized in previous books.

Tom Ripley In Drag

In "The Boy Who Followed Ripley," the fourth in Patricia Highsmith's five-novel series about Tom Ripley, her engaging hero continues life as a homicidal sociopath still walking free, contented, and dangerous. Frank Pierson, a sixteen-year-old boy from a wealthy family, has run away from the States, read about Tom (His shaky reputation is well-known.), and seeks him out at his villa in France. Frank's father died either by suicide, an accident, or by his son's hand. The two are drawn together by a common bond, rather dubious consciences. Later, Susie an old Pierson servant, intimates that Frank and Tom are cut from the same cloth of evil and malice.

Tom later admits to Frank that he's killed men and had no qualms or despair over it. To him it's a fact of his life. He kills when he feels it's necessary.

If I were Heloise, Ripley's wife, I'd be suspicious of the close relationship between the two males, but Heloise has always been self-absorbed, an enabler for Tom and uncritical of her husband's shady character. She even asks her husband if the boy is gay. She is so into herself that she doesn't seem to care what he's up to.

Tom gets along well with Heloise. He's not that interested in heterosexual relations, and she is not sexually demanding. She's like his beard except he never seems to be involved in sex with males.

Tom becomes Frank's idol, mentor and his doppelganger; he's the young Tom. They become too chummy. Young Frank stays at the Ripley house, travels all over with him. Readers know that Ripley has homosexual tendencies, and they may wonder about this intimate connection. There is always a gay undertone in Ripley's life, and more of it is seen in this book than in Books Two or Three. In Berlin the two visit a gay bar like lovers, Tom even gets in drag; supposedly as a disguise to rescue a kidnapped Frank, but he seems to love it.

Tom in the kidnapping episode does foolish things with the ransom money, and he can put one more notch on his killing belt. (eight so far in the series)

Tom has loyalties to his friends but no moral compass toward humankind in general. Tom is queasy about killing lobsters but not human beings. Tom had never felt guilt about his homicides.