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Title: All Things Wise and Wonderful

Author: James Herriot

Narrator: Christopher Timothy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-01

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1116 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

We meet old friends again - his partner Siegfried, the zany Tristan, the bon vivant Granville Bennett - and scores of new folk, each with a story to tell. James Herriot is back and, as one reviewer said of his work, "If ever you have loved a friend, human or otherwise, these stories are for you."

Critic Reviews:

"...humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness...gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable." (Columbus Dispatch)

Members Reviews:

Excellent story, Poor editing

I love the James Herriot books, and this one is a favorite. Christopher Timothy does a great job as the narrator. However, in the middle of Chapter 50, the story changes completely, and then the end of the book is in the middle of chapter 55! Then it takes up where it left off in Chapter 50. Editors, where are you?

Great but flawed

Any additional comments?

I first discovered this entire series as a child and loved them then. Listening to them as an adult, I find them even more remarkable. However, this particular edition (or at least my download) of All Things Wise and Wonderful has a major flaw. It seems that at some point, the dvds the Audible edition was created from was put out of order. The end of the book occurs about an hour or so before the recording actually ends. I suspect that a single dvd was placed out of order.

Other than that, these are remarkable stories about fascinating people and animals. I highly recommend them.

The best in Classics

This and all of the books by James Herriot are supreme examples of the wonder of Human compassion and love for creatures other than humans. They are all warm and inviting and appeal to ones sense of decency and love of life. All of his books are unique and in a category of their own - unsurpassed, superb, totally enjoyable from the first page to the last. I think they should be required reading for everyone!!!!

A little different story...

In addition to all the animal stories, this volume of Herriot's books talk about his experiences in the RAF during WWII. It's touching and funny at times. The atmosphere of wartime England is palpable. As with the rest of the Herriot audiobooks, this one is very well-read and engaging.

Still funny after all these years

I first read the four original James Herriott books in the late '70s and early '80s, when they were first issued. The U.S. government records audio books for blind folks like myself, and the readers they get are good. However, in the cases of the Herriot books, they made the huge mistake of using an American reader. Fortunately, this recording has a British reader--an absolute must for these stories. Mr. Timothy is exceptional, and sounds a great deal like the man who played Herriot in the TV series "All Creatures Great and Small," in the '80s. The decades between haven't taken the fun out of these tales, and neither has an extremely unkind biography of Herriot, though the author certainly tried to destroy what Herriot created. I close with a line from the original Dr. Doolittle movie--"Maybe what the doctor tells me isn't all together true, but I love every tale he tells me. I don't know any better ones, do you?"

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Title: The Lord God Made Them All

Author: James Herriot

Narrator: Christopher Timothy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-01

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 873 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The world's most beloved storyteller once again brings us the magical beauty of Yorkshire, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants, and the richly rewarding experiences of a country veterinarian.

James and Helen now have two growing children, Jimmy and Rosie, who bring a new kind of adventure into James' life. The Herriots live at Skeldale House on the edge of the Yorkshire dales, whose peace, solitude, and feel of the wild make the countryside both thrilling and comforting at the same time.

It is the 1950s, a time of new advances in veterinary medicine, but the hard-working people of Yorkshire have not changed. That includes James' dear old friends Siegfried and Tristan - neither of whom has lost his great good humor. We also meet new friends, as James travels behind the Iron Curtain and learns about a world very different from his own. And always, his wonder, exhilaration, and affection glow in every word, whether he is talking about the glories of the moors and dales or the fascination of the people.

Members Reviews:

Just as good as the others

All of the Herriot books are great in audio -- very engaging stories that benefit much from the fine reader's rendering of the accents. This one is no exception. I was really sorry when I finished this series because I know there will be no more books.

No disappointment here!

I love James Herriot and Christopher Timothy is absolutely the best! I was leary of ordering another because the last one I ordered, All Things Bright and Beautiful was sub standard on recording, but this one was perfect. Very entertaining, a good listen for the entire family. Something for everybody! Love it.

Great listen

I've always enjoyed the Herriot books and having grown up with the TV series, it was wonderful to hear them read by Christopher Timothy (who plays James). This is a very relaxing listen.

Christopher Timothy reads these wonderfully, during the humourous anecdotes you can hear him smiling.

Good Wholesome Reading.

Would you consider the audio edition of The Lord God Made Them All to be better than the print version?

Yes, I do. Christopher Timothy is the perfect narrator for James Herriot books. He does the accents very well and he has very good inflections when the exciting parts come. It is easy to visual James Herriot scrambling out of the way of charging livestock or dealing with ridiculous clients. He does a great job.

Who was your favorite character and why?

James Herriot, of course.

What does Christopher Timothy bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

as above

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

I would stick to the title.

Any additional comments?

I have read the entire series of Herriot's books and re-read many of them. His books are good, wholesome reading of a time when life was more down to earth and quaint. I love his books. Comfort reading!

Priceless!

Where do I begin?!?! James Herriot's words and experiences are brought to vivid life by the flawless and brilliant narration of Christopher Timothy! I have never been so captivated! Timothy's spot-on vocals left me awestruck- he truly captures Herriot's sharp wit and genuine love of all creatures great and small!

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Title: All Things Bright and Beautiful

Author: James Herriot

Narrator: Christopher Timothy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-00

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1502 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Herriot continues the rich and rewarding day-to-day life of a small-town veterinarian, and we journey with him across the dales, meeting a whole new cast of unforgettable characters - humans, dogs, horses, lambs, parakeets - all of them drawn with the same infinite fascination, affection and insight that made James Herriot one of the most beloved authors of our time. And all the stories are warmly, evocatively told by the world-renowned "voice" of Dr. Herriot: Christopher Timothy.

Members Reviews:

Marred by background noise

Glorious story read by the very actor who brought James Harriot to life in the British series, how could anyone ask for more? How about a background free of indistinct chatter loud enough to be a significant distraction? The distracting verbage waxed and waned, and could only be ignored when I turned the volume down so soft that I then lost the nuances of Timothy's wonderful performance. I was disappointed to say the least. I do not recall hearing this noise on the CDs I borrowed from the library years ago, read by the same narrator. Is this a different edition, or just poor importing into the Audible data base?

I love this book, but....

This is a wonderful book and I love Christopher Timothy as the narrator. However, my dissatisfaction does not come from the book or its contents but the quality of the recording. I can hear background talking, at times the narrator slows down so he has a bass voice and then picks up again. I thought maybe it was my Kindle but it only does it with this book, and that is both part 1 and part 2. I was not happy at all with the quality of workmanship at all. I wanted to buy the other two books, but I am leary now.

Great story, sound needs to be remixed

i listen frequently thru my bluetooth headset and the constant hissing and faint background voices is very annoying. The audiobook publisher needs to fix this recording.

It only gets better when you read/listen Again!

Most true Herriot fan's will recall Christopher Timothy portraying James Herriot (the true-life Alf Wight) in the movies and series "All Creatures Great and Small". This, however, is a different experience. I found Timothy to be a bit harsher than I pictured Herriot on the series--even spoken as a devoted fan. In this audio format he does an amazing job on the unabridged version. His acting ability really shines here. His voices and accent range are amazing. If you need an escape and want to feel good, then go back to 1930's Yorkshire and re-live the early days of vet practice. Whether you are an animal lover or just need the relief of a book that will make you laugh and bring the beautiful moors to life, you'll never regret the James Herriot series. Christopher Timothy deserves an award for this one! Fantastic job!

Top of the Class

This is one of the best authors and readers I've read. Both are 5 out of 5. The subject matter here is not something I thought I would like. I was pleasantly fascinated by it. I enjoyed each listening session very much. I am very happy I experienced it. You really need to experience one of these books and then evaluate for yourself if the subject matter will keep you coming back. The book contains a number of experiences of a country vet in Scotland. Some of the stories will stay with me the rest of my life.

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Title: The Liar's Club

Author: Mary Karr

Narrator: Mary Karr

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 485 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A powerfully funny, razor's-edge tale of a fractured childhood, Mary Karr's biography looks back through a child's eyes to sort through dark household secrets. She witnesses an inheritance squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at both the deserving and the undeserving. In a voice stripped of self-pity and charged with brilliant energy, she introduces us to a family ravaged by lies and alcoholism, yet redeemed by the revelation of truth. Karr, a prize-winning poet, uses her linguistic skills and sharp personal insights to make The Liar's Club an utterly mesmerizing memoir.

Original Material ©1995 Viking/Penguin; Cover Photograph: Dorothea Lange, ©1965, 1994 John Dixon; (P) and ©1995 Penguin Books Ltd

Critic Reviews:

"To have a poet's precision of language and a poet's insight into people applied to one of the roughest, toughest, ugliest places in America is an astonishing event." (Molly Ivins, The Nation)

Members Reviews:

Love Karr, This Book OK

Mary Karr is the type of writer I love; snarky, self-depricating, honest, raw, emotive, simplistic and many more adjectives I won't bore you with. This book is good and worth a listen, but can't compare to "Lit". She definitely improves book by book. Love her work.

Please Remake this Unabridged!

Any additional comments?

It kills me that Audible does not have an unabridged version of this book. The cuts are rough, disrupting the storyline, and the sound quality is poor (including some "air" or room static sound). What kills me is that these flaws disrupt Mary Karr's immensely satisfying narration of her absolutely phenomenal and most cherished memoir. I beg Mary Karr to read this entire book again, and Audible for producing/distributing, for listeners today and in decades to come.

Beautifully written, bitter sweet

Mary Karr is a beautiful writer. She knows when to delve into the minute details of a moment and when to cut to the chase. Her story is intriguing from the outset and kept me riveted. I recommend it highly. The recording uses her as the narrator and it took me a while to get used to her voice, but once I did, it felt authentic, almost as though she were sitting there telling me her story.

Searing memoir

Well written, searing and emotionally wrenching but reading performance flat. Author's memory for detail is excellent. I do recommend it.

A beautifully written sad story

Mary Karr tells her incredible story in a matter of fact way. She does what many writers can't - she shares these painful events as she first experienced them without muddying the memories with retrospection, resentment or self pity. The Liars Club is an excellent book.

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Title: Helmet for My Pillow

Subtitle: From Parris Island to the Pacific: A Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II

Author: Robert Leckie

Narrator: James Badge Dale, Tom Hanks (introduction)

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2250 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries. James Badge Dale (who portrayed Robert Leckie) and Joseph Mazello (who played Eugene Sledge) bring all the passion and emotion of their riveting television performances to these new audio productions.

In Helmet for My Pillow, Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This riveting first-person account follows his odyssey from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.

From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie's hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight.

BONUS AUDIO: Tom Hanks, one of the executive producers, has written and narrated an original introduction to Helmet for My Pillow, where he describes his appreciation for the book's author, the narrators, and the soldiers who had fought in the cauldron of the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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Critic Reviews:

Robert Leckie's unvarnished 1957 memoir paints a vivid picture of his experiences as a Marine on the frontlines of the Pacific Theater in WWII. Using the unadorned demeanor of a tough Marine, narrator James Badge Dale delivers Leckie's eloquent text with intensity and respect. He adopts a touch of humor when describing the occasional raucous camaraderie of the men but mostly employs a hard-boiled, sturdy veneer for Leckie's revealing and sometimes shocking narrative. Dale's unrelenting pronunciation of long "a"s (such as "a gun") is at first distracting but eventually comes to feel like the unyielding backbone of a young warrior facing the brutal action of battle. A brief introduction from Tom Hanks helps the listener anticipate the significance of this powerful American chronicle. (AudioFile)

Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Robert Leckies theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being whosomehowsurvived. (Tom Hanks)

One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S.

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Title: No One Cares About Crazy People

Subtitle: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Author: Ron Powers

Narrator: Ron Powers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 123 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times best-selling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.

From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the antipsychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.

Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers' beloved son Kevin - spirited, endearing, and gifted - who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic.

A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood.

Critic Reviews:

"Very emotional...[Powers] reminds us how apathetic and cruel society can be when it comes to mental illness." (

Booklist)

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Powers (

MarkTwain: A Life, 2005, etc.) presents two searing sagas: an indictment of mental health care in the United States and the story of his two schizophrenic sons.... This hybrid narrative, enhanced by the author's considerable skills as a literary stylist, succeeds on every level." (

Kirkus Reviews)

"Ron Powers and his wife never expected to visit the exotic lands of schizophrenia until their two sons became affected. A gifted professional writer, Powers takes the reader along on his explorations as he tries to understand why it happened and what to do. What he finds is 'the most dreaded of all human mental disorders.' Very readable and highly recommended." (E. Fuller Torrey, MD, author of

Surviving Schizophrenia)

Members Reviews:

Amazing.

I want to make this text required reading for my graduate students in Mental Health Counseling.

Of Care and Caring

Ron Powers skillfully intertwines the historic lack of meaningful health care for people suffering from mental illness with the caring and love he and his wife extend to their sons. Though a heart wrenching journey, Powers concludes with hope. First, from advancing medical knowledge and, perhaps more importantly, a vision of community caring to benefit us all.

interesting. very sweet tribute by a dad.

interesting. very sweet tribute by a dad. also a good understanding of history of mental illness and its treatment.

Powerful

So grateful to Ron for sharing his son's stories and the research he provides about the history mental healthcare. Very moving and enlightening. There is so much work to be done in reforming the state of care for those suffering from mental illness.

Teach's review

Scary that our genetic secrets can show up when we are 24. A personal look at schizophrenia.

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Title: Between Two Worlds

Author: Tyler Henry

Narrator: Tyler Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 833 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From Tyler Henry, a 20-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far.

Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating with the departed when he was 10 and now, at age 20, is a renowned practicing medium who is the go-to clairvoyant of celebrities. He's worked with some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Khloe Kardashian, Amber Rose, Margaret Cho, Jaime Pressly, Monica Potter, and Boy George, many of whom appear on his smash hit E! reality show, Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry.

Henry's memoir reveals what living life as a medium is really like - from opening up about discovering his gift as an adolescent to what it's truly like to communicate with the departed. He also discusses the difficulty he had accepting his rare talents and the courage it took to share them with the world.

Members Reviews:

A life well lived is not defined by death

I've listened & read many books on the subject of life after death and communicating with the other side and I must say this one is one of my favorites. His message and stories truly resonate within.

I was very impressed with the narration that Tyler performed during the reading of the book. It felt more like you were sitting with him having a conversation versus listening to a produced version of the book.

He gives a very refreshing view on the afterlife and many components that we all wonder about... a few of my favorites being reincarnation and your pets being able to communicate with you from the other side.

This is absolutely I would recommend to those friends who have an open mind about the afterlife.

Tyler Henry, when can I make an appointment?! Lol

What An Amazing Soul

When I first saw Tyler Henry's show, I immediately was hooked. His presence and maturity is far beyond any 20 yr old I have ever met. His communication skills are also advanced and he is able to portray what he is thinking and seeing in a very clear and concise manner which is also evident in his book. I'm glad he was the one who narrated his own book because it's just like listening to him on TV. It doesn't sound rehearsed or monotone. You will definitely enjoy listening to his history and experiences with his amazing gift.

He is brilliant!!

Tyler Henry is sooo genuine and brilliant! I really love his show Hollywood Medium so I decided to give this book a listen. Absolutely loved every second of it. It is written so eloquently and he speaks well beyond his age. Highly recommend!

Very enjoyable!

This was a really nice read! Tyler actually answered most of the questions that I have wondered about on the subject of mediums.

Very interesting way of showing us your world

I enjoyed the way this story was told by Tyler Henry himself and how he took me into his new and past personal experiences. I decided to try the audio version and very glad i did so.

I recommend this book to all his fans who are eager to learn from him and his intentions in this very spiritual process. His story growing up is very touching and helps you understand where his gift started. I hope to be able to meet Tyler one day! Thanks for sharing your gift with the world !

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Title: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Subtitle: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Author: Donald Miller

Narrator: Donald Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-09

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1071 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges listeners to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

Members Reviews:

Not a religious book, but Donald is Christian

What made the experience of listening to A Million Miles in a Thousand Years the most enjoyable?

This is not a religious book, I got this for my non-Christian friends. I read books about existential questions by authors who are New-age, Jews, Muslim, agnostic, or non-religious. Donald is Christian, and there are issues in life that he narrate from a Christian's perspective, like how God loves us, how God is present in our lives, but not in the mission to convert the audiences.

I love the fact that Donald narrated his own book, his monotone is embedded with his great sense of humour, and you can hear that subtle cheekiness in the beginning, slowly move to heavier issues he witnessed. He talks about his experiences in life without focusing solely on himself, but people he came across who live not only to write a better life story for themselves, but for strangers, too.

I listen to many of my audio books more than once, and this one, I listen to it a few times already.

What other book might you compare A Million Miles in a Thousand Years to and why?

This is not a self-help book, and author didn't reflect on his life was hard for him, and how others have wronged him, so I don't know what other books to compare this with.

What does Donald Miller bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I like how he is not giving you an answer as if he knows what life is all about, but though his experiences and people he met, he realized there are some common elements to a good story line of one's life. He talks about his own struggles, his friend's baby's birth, and friend's wife's death, he talks in the way that brings us to the experience. I feel like I had a long walk with Donald and he told me all these things he observed.

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

The words brought me tears, the struggles in a broken family, the sadness of losing your love one. A very honest book.

Makes you think, powerful, fun.

Don reads his own book and because of that he really makes it. The voice tone and inflection adds something that I did not expect. His cadence and flow make this GREAT story even better. I am sorry, but I don't get the title. The book has nothing to do with bikes, time or traveling.

It reminds you to live a good life, to live a good story - a story worth telling. It is a very human book.

A story about living a story

I spent a day at the park and listened to this book, start to finish. I laughed out loud, I cried a little, and I took with me some insights for my own life.

This book isn't for the cynical, but the hopeful. With an open heart and mind, you will -- at the very least -- enjoy a well-crafted journey of personal discovery. And if this book comes into your life at the right time, you'll get even more out of it.

I don't want to give anything away, because this book has the potential to delight, and I wouldn't want to rob anyone of that.

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Title: Enrique's Journey

Author: Sonia Nazario

Narrator: Catherine Byers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 379 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better and go to school past the third grade.

Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly. But she struggles in America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to come back. Without her, he becomes lonely and troubled.

With gritty determination and a deep longing to be by his mother's side, Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds. Each step of the way through Mexico, he and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the route are out to fleece and deport them. To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call El Tren de la Muerte - the Train of Death.

Enrique pushes forward using his wit, courage, and hope - and the kindness of strangers. It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.

Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and a boy who will risk his life to find the mother he loves.

Critic Reviews:

"The breadth and depth of Nazario's research into this phenomenon is astounding, and she has crafted her findings into a story that is at once moving and polemical." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Missing Chapter 8 and Epilogue!

Was Enrique's Journey worth the listening time?

My son read Enrique's Journey as an assignment for school. He listened to the audio book and followed along in the printed version. When he got to the end of Chapter 7 it skipped about 20 pages to the Afterward. While he didn't have any other complaints about the audio book, those who are only listening to the book and not following along in print would not know they were missing the end of the book!

Excellent reporting; reader butchers Spanish

Nazario's reporting is excellent. She's taken a heart wrenching situation and woven in humanity to make it bearable.

Byers is a good reader for English but her Spanish takes away from her performance.

Great Story, Horrible Narrator.

What did you love best about Enrique's Journey?

Absolutely a must-read. The story is a real eye-opener about the journey that South Americans take to get to the United States. The narrator however, sounds like a robot at times. Her voice is harsh and lacks the fluency that I have grown accustomed to in my other audible purchases.

Eye opener

I was enlightened. A good book. A good narrator.

Trash

Listened to this all in one sitting, had alot of filler content and i did not empathize much, i feel like this story was executed very poorly

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Title: How to Murder Your Life

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Cat Marnell

Narrator: Cat Marnell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 679 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.

At 26 Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America - and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a "doctor shopper" who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything - anything - to sleep.

This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and, yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school - and with a prescription for attention deficit disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve.

From the Conde Nast building (where she rides the elevator alongside Anna Wintour) to seedy nightclubs, from doctors' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell shows - like no one else can - what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can't say no.

Combining lightning-rod subject matter and bold literary aspirations, How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.

Members Reviews:

nice book

Every time she does her screaming voice I want to stab myself in the ears with a butter knife. Otherwise pretty good.

Swag.

A fan of Marnell's work for some time, I was eager for the arrival of this book! I couldn't decided if I should get the hard copy or go audio book, as sometimes audio book is easier for commuting and working. Once I found out that she is the narrator, I decided on starting here. I plan on reading the prose in print, as well. She's a great writer and crafts her story with great talent. It flows well, her prose are witty and delicate and casual, and at times, flippant- when appropriate. She is a GREAT narrator (which is key for audio book). Her words are in her own voice and her intonation and cadence keep you listening. I wish there was more to listen to!! Looking forward to reading it and ingesting her copy on paper. A great insight on a very particular New York scene. Knowing many of the characters personally (though I don't know cat), her descriptions are spot on. She slices up so many layers but brings it all together in the end. I love when a story has layers, don't you? New York is a lonely place.

Honest

I have a difficult time supporting this memoir both financially and with a positive review. I just feel like I'm contributing to the author's ability to live a completely entitled and irresponsible life.

BUT...this book is honest. It was my window into incomprehensible self-destruction.