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Title: At The Devil's Table

Subtitle: The Man Who Took Down the World's Biggest Crime Syndicate

Author: William C. Rempel

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

An Impossible Choice - Jorge Salcedo was trapped. For years, he had climbed the ladder inside the Cali drug cartel, the world's most powerful crime syndicate, and risen to Head of Security. But he'd kept clean, avoided the dirty work, managed to sleep at night. Until now. He'd finally received the order he'd long dreaded, and it meant one thing: kill or be killed.

The Hard Ways - Jorge alcedo was a family man, a man with a conscience, a father - he was no cold-blooded murderer. He was left with the last resort. It meant risking his life, his family's life, and the lives of everyone he cared for. He would have to take the whole syndicate down. It was the price to pay for salvation.

Would you risk your life to save your soul?

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Title: Driftwood

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Elizabeth Dutton

Narrator: Elizabeth Dutton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-23-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Los Angeles, California: Clem Jasper is a trust fund kid with a world famous rock musician for a father. When he dies suddenly (playing ping pong) she discovers he's left her a strange legacy: a series of letters that take her on a mysterious road trip around California. Ignoring her aunt's suggestion that she pitch the trip as a reality show, she embarks on her own to discover just what it was that her father meant her to find. What secret could be so powerful that he had to die before telling her?

With a voice reminiscent of Rainbow Rowell, Dutton's Driftwood is a surprising, poignant, and funny debut. Dutton perfectly captures the mythology of California with this bright and unusual take on the freedom of the open road, the power of music, and what it means, even in the midst of grief, to be a family. Fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Run River, and Killing Yourself to Live will find much to savor here.

Members Reviews:

A book that spoke to me personally

Loved this book! The writer must have lost someone she loved so deeply who made her life so rich and full. She spoke to me in every word.

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Title: The Proud

Subtitle: The Return of the Marines, Book 2

Author: Jonathan P. Brazee

Narrator: Eddie Frierson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-14

Publisher: Jonathan Brazee

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After the events at the US Embassy in New Delhi, the Marines are being brought back as a combat unit. Newly commissioned 2dLt Anthony Niimoto, a hero of the embassy takeover, is with the first Marine battalion to get back into the deployment cycle. Assigned to anti-piracy, this is supposed to be a dull deployment. But when a US ship is seized by Somali pirates, it's First Platoon, K 3/6 at the tip of the spear. With SSgt Davidson, an ex-Ranger who returns to his Marine roots, the two of them must lead their platoon into harm's way, ever conscious of Black Hawk Down, the Battle of Mogadishu.

Was Tony Niimoto a one-shot wonder in New Delhi, or does he really have what it takes to be a leader of Marines?

Members Reviews:

Semper Fi

Being an Marine I naturally liked the book. Being an adventure reader I felt I was rereading Cornwall with his wonderful historical action. As one who watches history I applaud the timeliness of each of Col Brazee's trilogy of books ie the embassy

attack, piracy, and China invading "off islands" in the Pacific.........Get all three.

Again Semper Fi.....

The book was very interesting I would recommend this book to any one that was a Marine past or present.

I like the way it was written and I believed that this could have true happening. Please read this book and judge for yourself.

Being a veteran it made for good reading.

I really like this as like so many veterans of the older generation I think some of todays younger people have forgotten the sacrefice the men and women of the earlier generation gave up, these stories brought back the kind of lives they lived even though it takes place in the future.

Black Hawk Down Redux

"The Proud" returns to the world in which the Marines had been mostly cut but then restored by a grateful President. That fictional premise has very little to do with this story, however, except to utilize a few characters introduced in the first book,The Few: A Tale of the Marines in the Near Future (The Return of the Marines: Book 1). Foremost among these is newly-minted and highly decorated LT Niimoto, whose moniker "Korea Joe" has thankfully disappeared.

The story begins with Somali pirates and could have been about current events. Interesting stuff, but only backdrop for the operation to rescue two crewmen from an obscure village to which they are taken. Things get hairy, to put it mildly. The action is tense, realistic, and satisfying. What more can you ask for? The repetitive different takes on a scene are no longer used by Col. Brazee, and I thought the book was quite well put together.

Finally, unlike the complete lack of an Indian perspective in "The Few", the pirates' perspective is well told and adds an interesting layer to the story.

Good read

The corps has been reinstated, but is still not built up to its former size and position. This is Black Hawk Down in Somalia with 87 bad guys and several marines and sailors killed also. Concerns US response to piracy in the Indian Ocean. Lots of gung ho action.

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Title: Bamf

Author: Sjd Peterson

Narrator: Adam Dort

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-14

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

With his fauxhawk, sleeve tattoos, and visible piercings, Ridley Corbin has the whole badass vibe going on in spades. The image serves him well as the self-proclaimed protector of the underdog, and he wants nothing more than to be Alex Firestone's hero.

Alex, a mild-mannered library assistant, has moved to Slater, a quiet college town, hoping to hide from his past. He keeps to himself, but that doesn't save him from catching the unwanted attention of the campus bully. But not all is as it seems. Alex's past comes calling, and it's time he becomes top dog.

Members Reviews:

Didn't really enjoy it...

This book seems to be love it or hate it for most readers. Me? Yeah, I'm for SURE in the second category. 1 star for default plus 1 star for dirty talking... I'm being generous here.

I had so many issues with this one that I'm not quite sure where to start? The lack of character development? The telling vs showing? The sub-par audio narration? Where do I begin?!

I'll just jump right in. Was I the only one who thought that Ridley was sort of insane? And not fun insane, ACTUALLY crazy? First of all, he stalks Alex relentlessly, spending time and money that he says that Alex better appreciate to look good for him, visiting the library where he works for MONTHS with no backpack or books and pretends to read while staring at him. Did that strike anyone else as odd???? And later, when things start to fall apart (no spoilers here!), Ridley is just happy as can be to do whatever Alex says? He is also extremely underdeveloped as a character. Sure, I know he has lots of tattoos and likes rough sex, but other than a few tell-y details, I knew nothing about him. He felt like a creepy shell of a person.

Alex was only marginally better. It is hard to talk about him without giving away any plot spoilers, but I wanted to shout, "This isn't a freaking 80's movie!" It felt as contrived as one.

The sex. Well, sure it was hot. Lots of really rough sex, lots of bruising and sort of BDSM-y but less formal. But, please, can we stop with all the dry fingering? Having three fingers shoved up you completely dry has felt good for no one, ever.

The plot. Ugh. It was muy loco. I'm not a romantic suspense lover and when my hot contemporary morphed into something else, with a plot that felt thrown together, I was not a happy camper. I also never felt the love between the MCs. It was like a 80s buddy caper, with biting.

I'm also going to spend a brief moment discussing grammar and editing. When you are listening to an audiobook, sometimes grammar mistakes become more apparent. They did to me here. I'm not a grammar Nazi, but hearing "he" when "him" should have been used and adverbs/adjective errors irritated me.

Lastly, the narration. This narrator wasn't the worst I've heard but he was NOT good. He used the same exact voice for both MCs and had a very monotone way of delivering dialogue. He voice got a little "gruff" during the sex scenes but that was about it for his range of emotion.

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Titre: Une vie de lumière et de vent

Auteur: Christian Signol

Narrateur: Jean-Marc Delhausse

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 52 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-03-14

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 2 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Jean, l'enfant trouvé, a été élevé par un couple de bergers analphabètes, frustes et superstitieux. Le service militaire va heureusement le sauver de cet enfer. Avec l'aide d'un instituteur, il apprend enfin à lire et à écrire, découvre la chaleur d'un vrai foyer. Puis ce sera la "drôle de guerre" aux frontières de l'Est, et la débâcle. Le début d'une longue errance qui ramène Jean vers le Sud, jusqu'à sa rencontre avec Joseph, son ami, son double, et Dorine, un cœur simple, tombée éperdument amoureuse du jeune homme. Mais alors que la guerre se rapproche, Jean pourra-t-il échapper à son destin ?

Ancrée dans la beauté sauvage des hauts plateaux balayés par les vents du Midi, l'histoire de ce garçon sans famille, sans repère, en quête d'un peu de chaleur humaine et d'amour, nous bouleverse.

©2014 Éditions Albin Michel (P)2014 Audiolib

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Title: Byrne: A Novel in Verse

Author: Anthony Burgess

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A novel in verse form, Byrne echoes and takes further many of the preoccupations of Burgess's earlier fiction. It tells the story of a rampant Irish artist who, in the early days of the century, goes rapidly to the bad and ends up within Hitler's Third Reich.

Members Reviews:

An amazing novel in verse

An amazing novel in verse. Burgess is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Joycean, Nabokovian, Byronic, etc. are deserving praises heaped upon Burgess' work. Now may others be blessed by the adjectival accolade: Burgessian.

A Fantasy of Reality and Consequence

To some this book is a treasure to be treasured, never to be buried in a casket or the back or top shelf, occasionally to be befriended for admiration and fun. There are books which have phrases and sentences, sometimes even paragraphs heavy with thought and emotion that you wish to remember. Byrne is a book to be remembered whole and hence impossible to place in the nooks and crannies of the mind of an aging amateur thespian. The fact that I have enjoyed it and admired it immensely does not mean that I will recommend it to all those I know and will never know.

It is quirky. It is raw. It is much younger than any final work of a great wordsmith. I am not sure it was edited; even by the author. (At this stage, I have to admit that I did not check the writing habits of Mr. Burgess.) There is joy of life, inevitability of approaching death, thoughts of immortality in gross caricature, lewdness, love, affection, family ties, politics, money, interesting locations and events and the foreshadowing of the horrible religious violence and terrorism which has been tormenting the world in increasing doses in the Twent First Century.

But, it is difficult to read. Do you try to read it as verse or prose? In fact can you stop confusing the two while reading?

Do you check the historic, biblical, geographical, latin, archaic names, words, places, that crop up so frequently, or continue in order to enjoy the continuity and hope to look at least some of them up, later.......?

Is it a pretentious style or part of being Anthony Burgess, especially Anthony Burgess in his late years, when he would not care if the book sold a million copies or just a few to people like you and me?

I remember the 19 year old honey haired girl across the street who felt she had to read, understand and talk about the humour of "Inside Mr. Enderby" before she could continue to dazzle the young man who carried the Enderbys and Samuel S's and Molloys and Jakes, Stanleys,

Mike hammers and many others in his mind, not knowing that he was already caught on the hook with lure of the smile, humour, energy and joie de vivre.

I would not have given her Byrne then, but I read Byrne to her now. 36 years later and we both smile and admire and sometimes silently cry very selfishly if not for Byrne, then for Tom and Tim and just a little for all the others and mostly for Mr. Burgess, who will not offer us any more .

Burgess's Byrne great versifying fun

How can I describe "Byrne," a book by Burgess / (Anthony)? Putative novel, his last (O sorrow!). / 'S about one Michael Byrne, a "defective lecherous / Dreamer," all in ottava rima, (borrowed / From Ariosto), but which, to be sure, here is / Livelier and more fun than a carload / Of television sitcoms, no matter they / Be on Sunday, Wednesday or Saturday.

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Title: Enduring Love

Author: Ian McEwan

Narrator: David Threlfall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Members Reviews:

Absolutely thrilling!

This piece of art by Ian McEwan is one that shows his absolute dominance in narration and storytelling of modern literature.

Action literature

The novel has quite a lot of action for a "literary" work. Although the characters were interesting, none of them were at all likable, so it was hard to engage on an emotional level. The use of high-brow vocabulary and references were fitting to the protagonist's snobbishness, but also felt like the author showing off. The narration was (suitably) upper-crust, but this meant that, for me, it wasn't terribly pleasing to listen to. The recurring science references appealed to my geekish tendencies.

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Title: Happiest People in the World

Author: Brock Clarke

Narrator: Adam Black

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-14

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The absurdity and distortion of reality that made Brock Clarkes previous two novels so outrageously funny and yet so moving are on full display in his newest offering, The Happiest People in the World. Adapting the format of the political thriller and subverting it to tell his story of innocence corrupted, Clarke has delivered a biting and controversial satire on the American obsession with security and the conspiracies that threaten it.

The Happiest People in the World is a spy novel like no other spy novel. Its also a send-up of American culture, and in particular the constant pursuit of individual happiness of the kind that is attainable only at the expense of others. In exploring the contradictions and pitfalls of our national obsession with both freedom and security, the novel shows us how we constantly subvert our own good intentionsas husbands and wives, as children and parents, as students and teachers, as believers in art and believers in God, as citizens of America and citizens of the world.

Critic Reviews:

The funniest and smartest novel I have read in years. . . . It is the writing itself that is the true star here. . . . Yes! I thought, as I read these pages. Thats how you write a good book. (Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief)

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Titel: Sternschanze

Autor:: Ildikó von Kürthy

Erzähler: Ildikó von Kürthy

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-24-14

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Contemporary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Das ist keine Krise. Das ist eine Katastrophe! Bis eben war ich noch wohlhabend, verheiratet und gut frisiert. Und jetzt? Mein Leben ist nicht mehr wiederzuerkennen. Zurück auf Los. Neuanfang mit dreiundvierzig. Nichts, was ich mir schon immer erträumt habe. Mein Mann will die Scheidung, meinen Liebhaber möchte ich behalten, und meinen Friseur kann ich mir nicht mehr leisten. In diesem Moment sitze ich in einem sehr preiswerten Motel mit Raufasertapete und schlechter Aussicht und frage mich: War mein Betrug wirklich unverzeihlich? Was will ich retten - meine Ehe, meine Affäre oder mich? Brauche ich Hummer und eine professionelle Fußpflege zu meinem Glück? Und: Wer könnte ich werden, jetzt, wo ich niemand mehr bin?

©2014 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg (P)2014 Argon Verlag GmbH

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Title: One Big Damn Puzzler

Author: John Harding

Narrator: Peter Brooke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-14

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On a remote South Pacific island, the struggles of an elderly tribesman to translate Hamlet into local pidgin English are interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is an obsessive young American lawyer who has come to help. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same - for what (and who) William finds on the island will challenge both his and our notions about love, life, and even death.

Critic Reviews:

"Harding's humour is close to hysteria...the novel is that rare thing - painfully funny." (Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Is be or is be not?

Any additional comments?

Oh, this be plenty dang good.

I don't like to give anything away in my reviews. So, if you want to know what it's about I suggest you read the book's summary and you'll get the idea. However, you wont get the heart and soul that this book has. This is one of those times where describing what the story is about does no justice at all to it. There's landmines and lady-boys and drugs and communal defecation and Shakespeare.

There were parts where I laughed out loud and parts where I felt like crying. It makes you want to go to this island and live with these native people. It makes you wish life could really be this simple.

It's a 'feel good' novel.

If you like toilet humor this audiobook is for you.

One Big Damn Puzzle?

Ok, so I read the reviews and thought I could do with a 'laugh out loud' story to listen to. Also, as a person with (I think) a good sense of humour, I usually have no trouble in 'getting' the joke and laughing along with the rest of them.

However, apart from the pigeon English of the natives, which I have to say was brilliantly portrayed by Peter Brooke, who narrated this story excellently, I was not all that amused really.

I feel sorry for sufferers of OCD, but it did get a bit tedious when I had to suffer the minute and repetitive description of the condition and its manifestations.

The story ended well for the main character, but tragically for the islanders. This does give a sad reflection on modern life which is always a good thing to confront and consider, but all in all, not a story I would want to listen to again in a year or so.

Loved every minute of it

If you could sum up One Big Damn Puzzler in three words, what would they be?

fantastic, spiritual, groundbreaking

What did you like best about this story?

The cultural insight, getting a feel for the values of other tribes

Have you listened to any of Peter Brookes other performances? How does this one compare?

Have not heared him before, but he's doing a great job

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The end ... sobbing away

Marvellous

Story started slowly but I soon got into it. Laughed my rocks off at times and at others melancholy. A superb book, thoroughly recommended

I can't listen to this any more

I couldn't get past the narrator's voice - I found it really irritating so unfortunately I can't say if the story was any good or not!