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Title: Oddments

Subtitle: A Short Story Collection

Author: Bill Pronzini

Narrator: Lou Hecker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-12

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of short mystery stories by award-winning author Bill Pronzini. In "The Man Who Collected the Shadows", a mild-mannered file clerk with a passion for pulpy detective stories learns that he has supernatural powers. In "Shade Work", a con man picks the wrong marks. Fans of mysteries and detective novels will enjoy listening to these 14 entertaining stories.

Members Reviews:

Very upset that I'm paying $4 for this book

There were at least 3 stories in here that are in other Pronzini anthologies --- you should not do this...Very disappointed.

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Title: Don't Mean Nothin

Subtitle: Vietnam War Stories

Author: John Mort

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

These 12 stories reflect the combat infantry experience of the Vietnam War - in the gritty Tanks, Called of God, and Incubation Period. Theres also the womans perspective of Arlene, a naive Red Cross volunteer or Doughnut Dolly, in A Mans World. Mort captures veterans experiences in Rest Stop, a woeful, divorced mans tale; Hallelujah By and By, a dark, almost supernatural story set in the Arkansas Ozarks; and Behind Enemy Lines, the story of a homeless, damaged man who at last finds his way home. All but two of these stories were previously published in such magazines as GQ and the Missouri Review, or in the collection, Tanks. Mort served with the First Cavalry in 1969 and 1970, near Tay Ninh, as an RTO.

Members Reviews:

I wouldn't waste my money.

This was NOT what I expected. The narrator sounds like a backwoods hick and doesn't do anything toward telling the stories with his, well, I would say "countryfied" accent but that would be an insult to the intelligence of those who live in the country. Some of the stories were completely pointless and hard to follow. I managed to struggle through it but wouldn't do it a second time. Invest your money in a better novel such as Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes.

This Book SUCKED !

Of all the books I have listened to or read about Viet Nam this was the worst one. This is comming from a Viet Nam Vet who served with the 5 th. Infantry Div, and the 101st Airborne Div. Recon Team LRRP.

Awful Narrating

Potentially good subject matter ruined by the horrific narrator.

To my ear, his accent does not lend its self to narrating, coupled with his inability to capture the listeners attention due to his mumbling drone.

10 minutes was all I could stand, then deleted it from my device.

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Title: Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (9) - Ladies Dancing

Author: Stuart MacBride

Narrator: Ian Hanmore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Ninth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season. Kayleighs a professional. But lap-dancing has rules. And when someone breaks the rules.

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Title: Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas - Lords-a-Leaping

Author: Stuart MacBride

Narrator: Ian Hanmore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Tenth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season. Lord Peter Forsyth-Leven, MSP, is about to discover that having it all just means youve got more to lose.

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Title: Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas - Calling Birds

Author: Stuart MacBride

Narrator: Ian Hanmore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Fourth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season. Working in a call centre normally offers few career opportunities. But it looks as if Tracys about to get her big break.

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Titolo: Il Gatto

Sottotitolo: Racconti d'autore

Autore: Italo Calvino, H. P. Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway

Narratore: Daniela Bruni

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 13 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 11-24-11

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Valutazioni: 4.5 su 5 su 2 voti

Categoria: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

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Title: Leaving Home

Author: Jodi Picoult

Narrator: Jodi Picoult

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-11

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and Measures", deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and, "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.

Jodi Picoult has the remarkable ability to portray an event's key moments and feelings in a potent narration that tugs at the heartstrings. Leaving Home's three emotionally charged stories deal with a gamut of pain, regret, unconditional love, memory, motherhood, and friendship that the author renders almost palpably.

Critic Reviews:

"Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance." (Stephen King)

"Picoult is a master of the craft of storytelling." (Book Review, AP news wire)

Members Reviews:

Left me wanting

Personally I didn't really connect with this collection of stories. I enjoyed the letter most. Weight and measures I didn't really understand at all ! I felt like I had missed something early on when they were growing/shrinking?? I thought the ritz didn't meet its potential as an insightful peace to a mothers life. Too obvious to really enjoy

Not an interesting story

The story Did not come up to expectations and was boring to listen to ...... This is surprising for me as I have read a lot of jodi,s books ...... Do not buy this one

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Title: Someday This Will Be Funny

Author: Lynne Tillman

Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-11

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators - by turn infamous and nameless - shift within their own skin, struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling arpeggio of Tillmans preferred subject: the unsettled mind. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by loves shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor: a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves. They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of wordplay and invention - stories that affirm Tillmans unshakable talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining experimental short fiction.

Critic Reviews:

"Despite the claim of the title, Someday This Will Be Funny, you wouldnt want to reach for Lynne Tillmans new book just for a good howl. In fact, that someday the title promises may never come. Tillmans stories are too piercing, the obsessions of her characters too connected to their psychic wounds, for them to be considered exactly funny. In any case, it isnt someday but rather meantime that counts for readers. And in the meantime, Tillmans fictions tend to be (to steal a line from one of her stories) as outrageously ineffable, obdurate and evasive as the forms of desire they describe. Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic, the stories are ever on point - on point, that is, if the point of your reading has more to do with psychological nuance and bravura performances of language than with conventional story lines." (Forrest Gander, New York Times)

Members Reviews:

the reviews sounded so good....

and I just couldn't get into it:( I hope others do - wish I could have "returned it" from the Kindle. Just not the book for me.

mesmerism

Lynne Tillman is a writer really like no other but if comparisons were forced perhaps Jane Bowles, Thomas Bernhard come to mind. She is at the height of her powers in this collection. She faces death, life, ghosts, memory, time and the absurd business of the human condition with a deft and mysterious touch.

It's the kind of collection you can pick up, read a few of its short, dazzling pieces and feel smarter, graced, less of a failure (for knowing you are one), an enrichment that comes from small phrases of time, an hour here or there. Read the last story, for instance, and feel you love this person and also know how hard it is to be her.

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Title: Sweet Dreams, Caroline

Author: E. Jean Beres

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-11

Publisher: Mind Wings Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

When Carolines sister, Debra, arrives for their grandmothers funeral, Carolines life slowly begins to shatter. Debra clings to Michael, Carolines husband, in a way that should make her concerned, but she tries to brush the suspicion from her mind. When Caroline, Michael and Debra meet with the lawyer for the reading of the will, the real truth about Debra begins to unfold. Caroline is haunted by her grandmothers warning regarding her husband and her sister. Did she really make a mistake marrying Michael?

Editorial Reviews:

The emotionally tense short piece Sweet Dream, Caroline, by E. Jean Beres, is a hauntingly cerebral tale. With performer Laural Merlington's ethereal voice, this audiobook's tone of private tragedy elicits both pain and sympathy.

Nothing seems right about the overly familiar bond between Caroline's sister, and her husband - Debra and Micheal. But, she is willing to put it out of her mind due to the highly emotional state that everyone has been in since the death, and funeral of her grandmother. Until, that is, Caroline is exposed to a recoded warning from her late grandmother concerning the kinship between Micheal and Debra.

Members Reviews:

Cheesy romance

Don't trouble yourself. Anyone looking for a decent plot and fleshed-out characters should find something else.

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Title: Tales My Grandcat Told Me

Subtitle: A collection of folk stories about cats from around the world

Author: Nick McCarty

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-11

Publisher: Crimson Cats Audio Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of folk stories about cats from around the world. There are many folk tales involving cats from every corner of the world. This collection offers 8 of them, some gentle, some amusing, some very dark.

READER: Sean Barrett started his acting career as a boy when television drama was black and white and live. A much later TV highlight was the Father Ted Christmas Special where he played the Priest with the Most Boring Voice. Sean worked with Noel Coward on stage in the West End in his Suite in Three Keys. He was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company and co-narrated the BBC TV documentary series Peoples Century. His films include War and Peace, Dunkirk, Sons and Lovers. Sean is the reader of many audio books, winner of a Spoken Word Award (UK) 2001 and an Audie (US) 2009.WRITER: Nick McCarty has been a professional writer for forty years and has written for television shows such as Bergerac, The Onedin Line, The Six Wives of Henry V111, Z-Cars and General Hospital. In addition he has written award-winning radio drama adaptations including A Tale of Two Cities, Dan Dare, Hard Times, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula as well as many original plays for both the BBC and Commercial Radio. He is also the author of the historical novel Fox which is published by Quaestor Books. The "kittens" were Maddie and Finley Byrne, Ben and Sam Emms. MUSIC: The music was created and performed by James Mair.

Critic Reviews:

"You may adore kittens, but be warned: you may not cleave as closely to these strange, totally unsentimental stories about feline cunning and savagery from all over the world. Enigmatic, sinister, exotic - I loved them. The one from Japan about the boy who painted cats all over the walls of an abandoned monastery makes M. R. James about as spooky as Squirrel Nutkin." (Sue Arnold, The Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Interesting folk stories

What made the experience of listening to Tales My Grandcat Told Me the most enjoyable?

Sean Barrett's narration is amazing as usual but that's not all there is to this book. This book offers a collection of folk stories about cats from around the world. Each of these stories portrays bits of each culture's world views and morals which is very interesting in my opinion. All that said, I don't recommend this book for very young children as some of these stories can be quite scary or harsh for them.

What other book might you compare Tales My Grandcat Told Me to and why?

Tales of the Amber Sea: Fairy Tales of the Peoples of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It's also a collection of folk stories about animals and people.

What about Sean Barretts performance did you like?

He has the ability to bring each character to life and narrate the stories in a calm yet captivating manner. I can listen to him for hours without getting bored.

A Must for Cat Lovers

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If they love cats, absolutely. This is like the audible equivalent to those wonderful comical books full of great and amusing cat pictures, but at the same time, much more classy and worth your money.

What did you like best about this story?

Sean Barrett's narration, of course.