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Title: The Todd Glass Situation

Subtitle: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Standup Comedy

Author: Todd Glass, Jonathan Grotenstein

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 51 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

A hilarious, poignant memoir from comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man - and the reactions and support from his comedy pals, from Louis CK to Sarah Silverman.

Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results.

It might have been a lot easier had he chosen a profession other than stand-up comedy. By age eighteen, Todd was opening for big musical acts like George Jones and Patti LaBelle. His career carried him through the Los Angeles comedy heyday in the 1980s, its decline in the 1990s, and its rebirth via the alternative comedy scene and the explosion in podcasting. But the harder he worked at his craft, the more difficult it became to manage his "situation." There were the years of abstinence and half-hearted attempts to "cure" himself. The fake girlfriends so that he could tell relationship jokes onstage. The staged sexual encounters to burnish his reputation offstage. It took a brush with death to cause him to rethink the way he was living his life; a rash of suicides among gay teens to convince him that it was finally time to come out to the world.

Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone - young and old, gay and straight - breathe a little more freely. Peppered with anecdotes from his life among comedy's greatest headliners and tales of the occasionally insane lengths Todd went through to keep a secret that - let's face it - he probably didn't have to keep for as long as he did, The Todd Glass Situation is a front-row seat to the last thirty plus years of comedy history and a deeply personal story about one man's search for acceptance.

Members Reviews:

Todds Situation is a Real Glass

Any additional comments?

Yes! I started out this review with a bad pun on Todds last name.

I ordered the book after seeing Todd appear on Jon Stewarts, Daily Show. Before the Daily Show appearance, I had not heard Todd preform. Listening to the book and hearing his inspiring story of overcoming ADD and dyslexia and the barriers of being a gay performer in a largely straight world, I have become a fan him and of his pod cast, The Todd Glass Show on I-tunes. The book is a real tribute to his adaptability and taking his social acumen ability and shaping it into a career as a successful comedian. Fortunately, he was blessed with rugged good looks that made posing straight (his situation) an easy reach. The books glimpses behind the scenes of what it takes to make it as an up and coming comedian, makes the book worth the listening to in and of it-self.

Thank God, Todd is now well known enough and public attitudes have changed enough, so Todd does not have to twist his life experiences into straight humor in order for it to be funny and publicly accepted. As a listener, from the Midwest and 15 years older than Todd, I get why Todd had to develop a public image not true to his gay nature.

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Title: Putevoditel' Sochi [Sochi Guide]

Author: Dzheremi Klarks

Narrator: Svetlana Kamyshina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-14

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Kogda by vy ni reshili poehat' otdyhat', pomnite, chto najti takoe zhe sochetanie morja, solnca i gor, kakoe mozhet predlozhit' Sochi, prakticheski nevozmozhno! S sem'ej ili druz'jami, v bol'shoj kompanii ili v odinochestve - v Sochi ehat' mozhno i nuzhno v ljubom sluchae. Jetot gorod - specializirovannyj kurort, kotoryj za mnogie gody svoej istorii nauchilsja prinimat' gostej i udivljat' ih. Blagodarja jetomu putevoditelju vy uznaete, bez poseshhenija kakih mest v Sochi nel'zja obojtis' ni odnomu turistu. V jetom unikal'nom putevoditele vy najdete opisanie ne tol'ko istoricheskih dostoprimechatel'nostej goroda, no i vseh olimpijskih ob#ektov, kotorye uzhe tozhe vhodjat v istoriju istoriju Olimpijskogo dvizhenija!

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Title: Bol'shoj putevoditel' [The Big Guide]

Author: composite authors

Narrator: Maria Antonova

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-14

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Segodnja slozhno najti cheloveka, kotoryj hotja by raz ne otpravljalsja v puteshestvie - bud'-to bjudzhetnyj otdyh v Krymu ili feshenebel'nyj kurort v Sredizemnom more. Kto-to bol'she, kto-to men'she, no puteshestvujut vse - a sobirajas' posetit' novuju stranu ili gorod, samym vernym resheniem budet kupit' putevoditel' i zaranee uznat', chto zhe vas zhdjot. Imenno pojetomu my vypuskaem jetu knigu, gde sobrali dlja vas bolee dvuhsot faktov i istorij o samyh populjarnyh dostoprimechatel'nostjah proslushav ejo vy pobyvaete vo vseh ugolkah planety, poluchite predstavlenie o velichajshih proizvedenijah iskusstva i arhitektury, pogreetes' pod solncem na luchshih peschanyh pljazhah, uznaete mnogo novogo iz zhizni teatral'nyh, promyshlennyh, religioznyh stolic, pobyvaete v gorodah-krepostjah. Vot lish' nebol'shoj spisok gorodov, o kotoryh pojdjot rech' v nashem putevoditele: N'ju-Jork, Berlin, Mjunhen, Hel'sinki, Praga, Rim i Vatikan, Parizh, London, Madrid, Ottava, Ierusalim i mnogie-mnogie drugie! Ves' mir v odnoj audioknige!

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Title: Pamunkey Indian Museum

Subtitle: King William Virginia

Author: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrator: JD Streeter

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-14

Publisher: Travel Radio International's Audio Journeys

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Audio Journeys explore Pamunkey Indian Museum in King William, Virginia with basket weaver and curator, Joyce Palemoon Krigsvold. Pamunkey Indians now number one hundred people, of a once very large and powerful tribe on the east coast of USA since the Ice Age. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

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Title: Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown Virginia

Subtitle: Living History Center

Author: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrator: Patricia L Lawrence

Format: Original Recording

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-14

Publisher: Travel Radio International's Audio Journeys

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Audio Journeys explore Jamestown Settlement Living History site in Jamestown Virginia. On the banks of the James River, 17th century history is told with artifacts and stories. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

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Title: Audio Journeys: Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, Santa Rosa, California

Subtitle: 19th Century Horticulturalist

Author: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrator: JD Streeter

Format: Original Recording

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-14

Publisher: Travel Radio International's Audio Journeys

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Audio Journeys explore Luther Burbank Home and Gardens in Santa Rosa California. It was here that the famous horticulturalist Burbank developed most of his 800 varieties of vegetables, flowers and trees.

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Title: Audio Journeys: St. Johns Church, Richmond Virginia

Subtitle: American Revolution Was Plotted Here

Author: Patricia L Lawrence

Narrator: JD Streeter

Format: Original Recording

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-14

Publisher: Travel Radio International's Audio Journeys

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Audio Journeys explore St. Johns Church in Richmond Virginia. St. Johns Church is one of the most important buildings in the American Revolution. It was here that the 2nd Virginia Convention was held in March 1775 with over 100 revolutionaries attending, including George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. Four hundred years of history across the Commonwealth of Virginia series.

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Title: Berlin. TOP-10 [Berlin. TOP-10]

Author: Gjunter Shmitc

Narrator: Stanislav Ivanov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-14

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

S pomoshh'ju uvlekatel'noj audioknigi Vy perenesetes' v stolicu Germanii i poznakomites' s dostoprimechatel'nostjami, kotorye privlekajut turistov so vseh ugolkov sveta. Vas zhdut interesnye rasskazy ob Aleksanderplatce, muzejnom ostrove, Rejhstage, parkah, soborah i mnogom drugom, chto sostavljaet kul'turnoe nasledie Berlina.

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Title: Crash and Burn

Author: Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 755 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

At a high point in his career, Artie Lange performed a sold-out show in Carnegie Hall-and he did it with a pocketful of heroin. In the midst of a deep, self-destructive depression, addicted to heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs, he lashed out at everyone around him - from his cohosts on The Howard Stern Show to celebrity guests and even his longtime friends.

By turns dark and harrowing, hilarious and poignant, and always drop-dead honest, Crash and Burn is a blow-by-blow account of Lange's years of addiction, a suicide attempt (which he relates in terrifying detail), hitting rock bottom, stints in rehab, and painful relapses. With the help and support of friends and family, Lange manages to recover and get his life and career back on track. And despite his slip-ups, backslides, and permanent losses, Artie Lange forges on.

From drugs to sports to falling in love, Lange tells all in Crash and Burn, the story of his life that is as shocking as it is funny, ever tempered by his characteristic humor, self-awareness, and inimitable way with words.

Members Reviews:

[Narrator Fail] Comic Genius+Depression+Drugs=Mess

About the narrator: For me, Too Fat to Fish in audio format was epic until Artie quit and allowed others to finish narrating his book. With Crash and Burn, Artie didn't even bother and contracted a hired gun. His choice of a narrator is puzzling - Artie's foul mouth, talk of prostitutes and drugs of epic proportions sound completely unnatural coming from Sean Runnette's mouth. A large percentage of Artie's charm is his delivery. NO ONE can tell an Artie story like Artie! So, the listener definitely loses here. Artie, for the love of GOD - read your own books - you are FANTASTIC at it!

Hard to be critical of a phoenix attempting to rise from the ashes, but this book stumbled and fell on its face (however, not nearly as many times as Artie has).

With or without drugs, Artie is a selfish guy. He is admittedly greedy, self-absorbed and was until recently (I think he is sober?) on a path of destruction that should have taken his life. The people that stood by him for the 5+ years he discusses in this book should be up for sainthood. I'm not making light of drug addiction or the gravity of clinical depression. Both are serious, combined are deadly, but this book goes into tremendous repetitive detail. About halfway through the book, it became annoyingly predictable: noncommittal attempts at sobriety, fists full of lies and plunges back into the abyss. It gets impossible to root for Artie when you hear the wake of chaos he lays down for everyone who ever loved him and the gigantic pity parties he attended in his own honor.

I feel like this book was prematurely written and with the passage of time, more years of sobriety and more perspective, Artie could have edited this into something more meaningful. It is his story, so at the end of the day, he gets to tell it when and how he wants. I just expected more from this brilliantly gifted, whip-smart man. I do hope he is on the road to recovery he says he is on.

Some reviewer was critical of Howard firing Artie... and I find that insulting and ridiculous. First, I adored Artie on the Stern Show and was heart-broken when he left. Howard built his show from the ground up and has been successful for 35+ years. He is fiercely loyal to his employees (he kept Jackie for all those years!).

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Title: Praga [Prague]

Author: Vaclav Myslovich

Narrator: Eugene Tarasov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-13

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Guided Tours

Publisher's Summary:

Esli vy nikogda ne byli v Prage, vy poterjali mnogoe! Professional'nye diktory, rabotavshie nad audioknigoj ob jetom nepovtorimom gorode, dazhe intonaciej svoego golosa sposobny peredat' to, chto ne dostupno glazu prazdnogo turista! Vy mozhete ispol'zovat' ejo, kak luchshego iz gidov, ili kak dopolnenie k nemu. A vsjo potomu, chto Prazhskij Grad, Sobor Svjatogo Vita, Karlov most, Staromestskaja ratusha, Vyshegrad, Nacional'nyj muzej, Prazhskij zoopark, U Fleku, Neobyknovennye muzei, Pojushhie fontany i mnogie drugie dostoprimechatel'nosti v nashej audioknige opisany nastol'ko podrobno, chto, ne buduchi hudozhnikom, Vam zahochetsja vsjo jeto narisovat'

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