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Título: Un Escandalo en Bohemia [A Scandal in Bohemia]

Autor: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrador: Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 59 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-13-11

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 5 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

¿Quién es Irene Adler?¿ Que es lo que tiene esta mujer para haber impresionado tanto a Sherlock Holmes?

Irene Adler ha sido la única mujer que ha conseguido que Sherlock Holmes, cambie su criterio respecto a la capacidad e inteligencia de las mujeres.Un nuevo cliente de Holmes, miembro de la realeza, tuvo hace tiempo un affaire con Irene Adler y ahora estando próxima su boda con la heredera de una corona europea, tiene que recuperar urgentemente algo..... que prueba que tuvo una relación con Irene Adler y que se encuentra en poder de ésta. La elegancia con la que Irene elude las investigaciones de Holmes al tiempo que mantiene su independencia y seguridad frente a su ex amante, le hacen ganarse todo el respeto y admiración de Sherlock Holmes y quizás algo más.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Five Stars

Mi hija ama este libro

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Title: The Defenders and Other Stories

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: William Coon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-11

Publisher: Eloquent Voice, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In a 1978 interview, Phillip K. Dick said "I've always had this funny feeling about reality. It just seems very feeble to me sometimes. It doesn't seem to have the substantiality that it's suppose to have."

Fortunately for us, Dick translated his feelings about reality into some of the greatest science fiction writing of all time. This collection features five stories from early in his career, when he found his voice as a writer.

In "The Gun," a planet lies dead, destroyed by a devastating war. Only a powerful weapon remains as protection, but what's left to protect?

In "Beyond the Door," a man buys 'a cuckoo clock for his wife - without knowing the price he would have to pay.

In "The Crystal Crypt," three earthlings attempt to gain advantage over the entire population of Mars, in order to advance Earth's commercial interests.

In "The Skull," an imprisoned hunter is offered redemption, if he will agree to embark on the most unusual hunt of several lifetimes. Finally, in "The Defenders," a population of robots fights an Armageddon-like war, while humans live underground, feeding the war machine. But what does winning really mean? These five stories allow us an early glimpse into the mind of the Hugo Award winning author.

Critic Reviews:

"The world's most consistently brilliant science fiction writer...." (Paul Williams)

Members Reviews:

Way overpriced for 4 public domain short stories

I highly recommend the stories but the price is far too high for a 66 page book containing only public domain stories. Entire novels of copyrighted material are available in paperback for less. Project Gutenberg has these stories and others by Philip K. Dick for free. I think it is unethical for the publisher not to disclose the public domain status of the contents in the description on the site. Unless you think the cover art is worth the cost of this book, give the book a pass and download the stories from Project Gutenberg or other sites that have them. If you want a hard copy to read print them out in the font size appropriate for you (especially important if you need large print to read well). Use the money you saved for something else such as Nick and the Glimmung or The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick 1980-1982.

Lame!

The only thing that was good about this book was that it was short. So on the positive side, I didn't waste much of my life reading it. But hey, if you enjoy story lines that read like the author went to a kindergarten class for ideas, this may be the book for you.

good stories... but only three total

i bought this expecting four total stories, but there are only three. i am going to contact amazon about a refund.

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Title: Time Before Midnight

Author: L. A. Wilson

Narrator: Aaron Tucker, Melissa Exelberth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-11

Publisher: Mind Wings Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

T. J. Durant, a limousine driver and single mother, has struggled and salvaged herself from the desperation of street-life. She has a weakness for flawed men and finds herself in the middle of a murder because of her connection to disabled private eye Jackson Bonner. As the danger deepens, she is unwilling to completely abandon Jackson.

Editorial Reviews:

A pulp novel of urban crime, L.A. Wilsons Time Before Midnight focuses on T. J. Durant, a tough, limo-driving single mother with a penchant for finding trouble. Melissa Exelberth and Aaron Tucker perform the text, which makes broad use of urban pronunciation and slang, at a brisk clip. The listener is taken deep into T. J.s world as her connection to a murder case closes in on her. At the center of T. J.s problems is private eye Jackson Bonner, who may prove to be T. J.s greatest weakness.

Members Reviews:

The time before midnight

Good story but, I wish it was a longer tale so, you embrace the characters more...

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Title: Ten Minutes after Midnight

Subtitle: Harry Landers, PI Series, Episode 4

Author: Jack Bates

Narrator: Bruce Reizen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-10

Publisher: Mind Wings Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

How do you hide a dead guy everyone wants to kill? When Private Investigator Harry Landers gets strong armed into helping a marked man hide, he learns that the line between his own good doing and the crimes of his client is a very thin one.

Editorial Reviews:

How hard can it be to transport one man from Detroit to Miami? What if that man is Morty Brubaker, and has a penchant for running numbers and a mouth like Rodney Dangerfield? Not to mention the fact that Marty has been declared legally dead. Ten Minutes after Midnight, performed masterfully by Bruce Reizen with the perfect amount of pulp influencing his delivery, is the story of private investigator Harry Landers and his attempt to ride the thin line of what's legal and what's good. Follow along as Landers attempts to escort Marty Brubaker down to Florida, and keep from becoming a marked man himself.

Members Reviews:

Couldn't finish the book.

What disappointed you about Ten Minutes after Midnight?

I was very distracted by the accents.

Has Ten Minutes after Midnight turned you off from other books in this genre?

NO

What didnt you like about Bruce Reizens performance?

I couldn't connect with the story. I thought it sounded good in the example but, between the accents and disconnect from the story line I just couldn't finish it.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disinterest

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Title: Murder Is My Racquet

Subtitle: Fourteen Original Tales of Love, Death, and Tennis by Today's Great Writers

Author: Otto Penzler (editor), Lawrence Block, James W. Hall, John Harvey, Jeremiah Healy, Stephen Hunter, Judith Kelman, Robert Leuci, Peter Lovesey

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Murder Is My Racquet is the most thrilling way to read about murder, intrigue...and tennis. This collection of stories by famous mystery writers, including Ridley Pearson and Lawrence Block, deals with the prestige of the high-stakes race to become one of the few international tennis stars, the promotional opportunities involved, the elimination of tournament competition, and the strategy of tennis in general. Viewed as an elite game since its beginnings, tennis is the perfect sport for one-on-one play and murder! Authors also include Kinky Friedman, James W. Hall, John Harvey, Jeremiah Healy, Stephen Hunter, Judith Kelman, Robert Leuci, Peter Lovesey, Mike Lupica, David Morrell, Ridley Pearson, Lisa Scottoline, and Daniel Stashower.

Critic Reviews:

"This tome is the perfect companion to have in the bag for those rain delays at Wimbledon." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Mysteries for the tennis fan

As you would expect in a book with 14 authors contributing stories, there is variety here that is both irritating and exciting. The theme is tennis... matches, competition, scoring, and the underbelly of tennis "fandom" and playing... murder, extortion, and more.

Ironically, I bought this book for a tennis fan. It didn't grab her! But I found the stories enjoyable and entertaining. What is it I don't know?

Fab Bunch of Tennis Short Stories

Murder Is My Racquet is an interesting collection of short stories revolving around the sport of tennis, including backyard tennis all the way to the U. S. Open. Usually thought of as a gentle sport, Otto Penzler gathers a collection of stories to change our minds. In "Terrible Tommy Terhume," we meet a good tennis star with a temper problem, but only on court. He goes to great lengths to change his personality. In "Six Love," a loving father tries murder to help his daughter become a champion only to have a surprise ending. In "Promise," a superstar tennis player is blackmailed, only to be shocked when she finds out who.

"A Debt to the Devil" begins with a surprising death which becomes ruled as being a break in. An investigator finds out the amazing truth. "Stephen Longacre's Greatest Match" is about a spoiled rich kid who gets into trouble. Instead of punishment, he must play in a tennis tournament, only to upset the whole country club. In "No Strings," a college tennis squad appears to be under a spell. Anyone who is better than Roy Duchamps gets hurt, one way or another. "A Killer Overhead" tells about a father's concern that is taken care of differently than expected. Death happens on Court Eleven in the short story "Needle Match." In "The Rematch," we learn of an umpire who gets his revenge. A tennis coach is murdered holding his racquet using his beloved Continental Grip in a story of the same name. "Close Match" is a story about a superstar tennis player trying to forget about being blackmailed.

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Title: Ford County

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: John Grisham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-09

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for 11 years. It could well be their last visit.

Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.

Quiet, dull Sidney perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton's most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney's wife.

Three good ol' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.

One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face to face with someone you've beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.

Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated.

Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.

Members Reviews:

Disappointing

I couldn't get to the end of this book. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to get the author to read this book was sadly mistaken. He might be able to write good books but he has no ability to read them. I found his performance distracting, if not irritating. One of those books through which it is difficult to concentrate and follow the story. I was also disappointed with the stories, which quite honestly were bland.

The worst Grisham yet

As an avid reader of Grisham books since 'A Time to Kill' and 'The Firm' I usually snap up the latest offering without caring what each book is about but knowing that each book, whilst not as inspired as the two first books would be a good read. This was my first Grisham audible book. Not only were the stories shallow and uninspired, the characters poorly developed and the plots banal but sadly somebody allowed John Grisham to read the book himself. Big Mistake. He may be able to write but he cannot read. His timing is poor, he does not pause as the grammar dictates or read in a way that allows the story to flow. Rather his voice is thin and irritating, it lacks the gravitas of other professionals and when I struggled passed the issues of his reading style I could only conclude, 'Don't give up the day job Mr Grisham.'

Not a thriller, but great stories

There are seven short stories, each of which has a charm and character of its own.

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Title: The Persistence of Desire

Author: John Updike

Narrator: John Updike

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.

Listen to more in

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©1958 John Updike; (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers

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Title: Herbert West

Subtitle: Reanimator

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Kevin Yancy, K. Anderson Yancy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-09

Publisher: SonicMovie.net

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies, hence, SonicMovies. Presented by Wollcott & Sheridan (WSAPL.com) / SonicMovie.net & K. Anderson Yancy.

Members Reviews:

Amateurish at Best

When will people learn that adding sound effects and electronically processing their voice does not make up for a total lack of acting talent?

Because of the effects on the voice, intelligibility is marginal as the main reader stumbles his way through this story.

Doesn't Audible have any kind of quality control?

Get a different version

Any additional comments?

The voice performance was painful. Had a weird cadence to it that was distracting. Sound effects made some parts completely INaudible (see what I did there). Some voices used to indicate other characters were also unintelligible. Basically, I need to purchase another version or get a written copy. Complete waste of money/credits.

Of course, the story itself -- or what I heard of it -- was great.

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Title: Animal Crackers

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Hannah Tinti

Narrator: Laural Merlington, Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-09

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in "Miss Waldron's Red Colobus," a headstrong young woman in Africa is lured by the freedom of the monkeys in the trees; in "Talk Turkey," a boy has secret conversations with the turkeys on his friend's family's farm; in "Slim's Last Ride," a child plays chilling games with his pet rabbit; in "Gallus Gallus," a pompous husband projects his anger at his wife onto her prized rooster.

This fresh, inventive debut will introduce Hannah Tinti as one of the most gifted writers of her generation. Enter her world at your own risk, and you will come away bewitched.

Critic Reviews:

"Animal Crackers is a most promising effort, with remarkable range and inventivenessand a deliciously deadpan sense of humor. [W]hat makes these stories extraordinary is Tintis subtext: what we are capable of doing to each otherand to nature." (Los Angles Times)

"The stories begin with firecracker first sentences, leaving the reader no choice but to read on." (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

"Tintis work is not for the faint of heartgraphic descriptions of violence and human dissection will deter some readersbut those who stick with her will find themselves richly rewarded. In Animal Crackers, Tinti opens the door to a darkness we all fear and bravely steps forth to meet it." (Charlotte Observer)

Members Reviews:

Good, not great. Forgettable.

This book is a book that I have read once and probably will never read again. It's not to say that Tinti's stories weren't good, simply that they are forgettable to my mind, and not one stuck out as "Wow! This is one of the best things I've ever read! Let me pull that out again."

Animal Crackers is bound together by the idea of animals in the lives of Hannah Tinti's characters, and what I did like about this collection was the way that Tinti shows the ways her characters are coping with the problems in their lives. Tinti's characters are all strange people, but in a depressing way. There's a desperately lonely woman who tries to curb the loneliness with the snake her ex-boyfriend left behind and makes a list of the snake's favorite things. A housewife murders her husband's lover, but turns off the stove and oven before leaving the house. A hitman waits for a couple to finish their dessert before shooting the woman, and then shoots the man before he notices that she's dead (a lovely act, in a twisted way). When a mother sees her son throwing his rabbit out of a window for the last time, she doesn't ever think, "My son is a wretched little demon-spawn", she's wondering if the rabbit remembered the last time he was thrown out of a window, if he was afraid, or if he was having fun. It's these little details that add so much to characters.

Overall, I enjoyed Tinti's writing. It wasn't pretentious or flowery, and her style doesn't make the stories drag.

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Title: The Queer Feet

Subtitle: A Father Brown Mystery

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: James Arthur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced, and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails.

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