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Title: Guns N Rosè

Author: Robert G. Barrett

Narrator: Dino Marnika

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Norton needed a holiday - anywhere - as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige - Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Brennan's nephew for a week while he was there. Sounded okay to Norton, and it was better than spending his own money. Jimmy Rosewater was young, cool and the original brown-eyed handsome man. He loved good wine, going to restaurants, going line-dancing, and the ladies loved him. This suited Les nicely. But, Jimmy was also supposed to be in jail. Before he knows it, Norton is fighting off the usual yobbos looking for trouble, sex-crazed feral aunties and getting shot at by feral bikies. That was during the quieter moments...and all the time Les has a feeling Jimmy's up to something...

Critic Reviews:

"The king of popular fiction." (

The Australian)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Another good Aussie laugh.

Five Stars

Really enjoy listening to his books.

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Title: The God of Small Things

Author: Arundhati Roy

Narrator: Diana Quick

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize.

The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst Indias vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns. Now available for the first time on audio download. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tingling imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism.

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmothers factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family: their lonely, lovely mother; their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, and bottom-pincher); and their avowed enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).

Critic Reviews:

"Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic The God of Small Things achieves a genuine tragic resonance. It is, indeed, a masterpiece." (Observer)

"The God of Small Things genuinely is a masterpiece, utterly exceptional in every way, and there can be little doubt that posterity will place it very near the top of any shortlist of Indian novels published this century." (William Dalyrmple, Harpers and Queen.)

"The quality of Ms. Roys narration is so extraordinary at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizing finishit evokes in the reader a feeling of gratitude and wonderment." (New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Huge amount of text cut out!

Any additional comments?

This book is truly fantastic, one of a kind. I had the paper version and wanted to listen to the audio book whilst reading. However, I quickly realised that huge chunks of the text had been taken away. It is extremely disappointing considering the fact that if you listen to any of Arundhati Roy's interviews, she clearly states that everything is important in her book, that all sentences have a meaning. Our topic in class was post-colonialism, and this book is perfect for the topic. But taking away huge amounts of the text is dreadful.

Modern day classic

Absolutely beautiful. I first read this book over a decade ago and hearing it narrated was just wonderful.

Waste of time

I was totally bored by this book. I could not gauge where in time I was with the characters. Can't understand why this won the Booker Prize.

Don't neglect small things

It seems like many minor scenes are cut to shrink the over all time so not particularly satisfied by the cutting as the book is about minor scenes or small things

But we have implied indian accents & sensible emphases which makes it impressive

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Title: Hidden Treasures

Author: Fern Britton

Narrator: Fern Britton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ferns warmth, insight and humour combine to deliver a hugely enjoyable novel that will speak to women everywhere. Read by Fern Britton Helen Merrifield has said goodbye to her philandering husband and her swish West London house to live in an idyllic country cottage in the heart of a postcard-perfect village in Cornwall. Putting the past behind her, Helen throws herself into country life and soon makes a new set of eccentric friends. To her surprise, Helen finds herself the love-interest of two very different men: the kind, gentle, desperate-for-love-and-sex Simon, and the darkly enigmatic local historian Piran. Whilst Helen is getting to grips with her new life, her oldest and dearest friend, Penny, a hot-shot TV Producer, has decided that the village is the perfect setting for her new TV series.

When the cast and crew descend, two worlds collide, and Helen is thrown headlong into 5am wake-up calls and temperamental celebrities. In the midst of all this, Helen stumbles across a forgotten old tin chest full of Edwardian treasures. Who do they belong to? Will the unpleasant historian Piran help her to find out or will Simon have the key? As Helen finds herself the focus of Simon and Pirans attentions, it looks like her ex-husband is planning to put in an unscheduled appearance. Will Helen embrace the future, or is it too difficult to let go of the past?

Critic Reviews:

Praise for New Beginnings little corker of a book! (Heat)

Fern Britton has transferred her fun and friendly charm to the page (Good Housekeeping)

Hugely entertaining novel (The Ticket)

'Fern is a survivor (Good Housekeeping)

A must-read! The mother of daytime TV opens up (Heat)

I defy anyone to read this and ultimately not to feel buoyed with optimism in this hugely readable autobiography we are reminded of just why we love her. (Sunday Express)

Members Reviews:

Rather average - not dreadful but rather flaccid

Any additional comments?

Encouraged by the brilliant audiobook The Haunting by fellow TV personality Alan Titchmarsh, I decided to give Fern Britton a go in the hope of listening to something equally pleasing and easy. But where Titchmarsh's work was charming and utterly absorbing this was just all rather underwhelming. The central character Helen is likeable and the story sounds as though it has promise. A bit of pizzaz that should be offered by the arrival of Helen's best friend and the TV crew planning to film what they hope will be a hot new TV series in the Cornish village Helen has recently moved to, fails to grip and the locals, all of whom have absurd pastiche west-country accents, just sound a bit thick thanks to Fern's risible attempts at Cornish enunciation.

One of Helen's potential love interest's is so callow and feeble, however 'good' he might be and despite being told he has a great body thanks to surfing, he just seems dull and deeply sexless. And, aside from my narration issues, that's the main problem with this book, it's just all a bit dull. I don't like bitchy characters and I'm after escapist happy ending-style audios but it is possible to fulfil these criteria whilst still instilling elements of pathos, realism and pace. This wasn't so bad that I gave up and some listeners may enjoy this but I'm afraid my mind wandered. I didn't relish listening to it and there was zero suspense or intrigue.

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Title: Losing You

Author: Susan Lewis

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-12

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Two lives. Two families. One tragedy.Lauren Scott is bright, talented and beautiful. At eighteen, she is the most precious gift in the world to her mother, and has a dazzling career ahead of her. Oliver Lomax is a young man full of promise, despite the shadow his own, deeply troubled, mother casts over him. Then one fateful night, Oliver makes a decision that tears their worlds apart.

Until then Lauren and Oliver had never met, but now they become so closely bound together that their families are forced to confront truths they hoped they'd never have to face, secrets they'd never even imagined...

Members Reviews:

An involving listen

This is my second Susan Lewis audiobook after the excellent 'No Child of Mine' and it definitely kept me gripped for a few days. Lewis' perception and portrayal of families is so well done that I became completely involved in the story and the lives of the characters. Julia Franklin reads it so beauifully that I am unsure about listening to a Susan Lewis with an alternative narrator. My only criticism is that around half way through things got a little predictable, but still an excellent listen.

Loved it

This book was a joy to listen To i truly enjoyed it would recommend it most definitely great book!!! X

Great read

started off slowly with introduction to many characters.

However, once it had hot going it was addictive. Really loved driving to work so I could carry on listening! Will definitely be getting another by Susan Lewis

Far too sugary-sweet

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The mother's reaction to every part of this tragedy involved her shrieking at everyone - never at any time was she stunned into silence as the drama unfolded. She was also too perfect, forgiving of everyone and running a successful business while dealing with a severely handicapped daughter - quite unbelievable

What could Susan Lewis have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Made the main characters Emma and Lauren less perfect -

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Her attempt at two characters speaking English with French accents were laughable - more like 'Allo Allo' than a realistic French accent.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

No

Any additional comments?

The long-drawn-out passages involving Sylvie the drunk could have been cut back - far too boring and predictable and added very little to the story.

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Title: The River House

Author: Margaret Leroy

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-12

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ginnie Holmes has found something she never intended to find - an overwhelming passion for a man she should not be with. At an abandoned boathouse hidden on the riverbank of the Thames, Ginnie steps into a world thats just a little bit brighter than her ordinary life. Then, in a single terrifying event, the lovers' secret becomes a deadly catastrophe, and Ginnie finds herself in the path of extraordinary danger.

Members Reviews:

Pleasant story

To start with i though the story would lead to something exciting, but it just didn't seem to warm up. A pleasant story to listen too, with a ending which leaves you feeling disappointed. Very well read, well done Charlotte.

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Title: Captured

Author: Neil Cross

Narrator: Colin Mace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-12

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Even though he is still young, Kenny has just weeks to live. Before he dies, he wants to find his childhood friend Callie Barton and thank her for the kindness she showed him. When Kenny discovers that Callie has gone missing, he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. And knowing that time is running out on him, he's prepared to do whatever it takes....

Members Reviews:

A Chilling Novel

Kenny Drummond gets the news no one expects to hear. He has stage four terminal brain cancer and has only weeks to live without treatment, maybe a few months with horrific treatments. Kenny opts to not do treatment and sets about putting his life in order. He is single with no children. His marriage had dissolved after a stillborn baby but he is still good friends with his ex-wife. He lives in a remote cottage where he makes a living painting portraits. He has no close friends or any relatives.

As he prepares, he decides this is the time to make amends to anyone he wronged. He can think of only a few and most insist his sins were minor and nothing to worry about. But then there is Callie Barton. Back when he was a young child, shunned at school because of his strange father and motherless home, only Callie had treated him kindly. He never told her how much that meant and decides this is the time.

He goes to his one friend, an ex-cop and asks her to help him locate Callie. What she turns up instead is troubling. Callie disappeared several years before and has never been found. Her husband, Jonathan Reese, was the main suspect. Kenny determines to find out what happened to Callie and get her justice.

In order to do this, he kidnaps Jonathan and takes him to his cottage. He imprisons him there, telling him that he will let him go when he tells him what happened to Callie. Jonathan is adamant that he had nothing to do with Callie's disappearance but Kenny is not convinced. Is he right or is the cancer in his brain making him read the situation wrong?

This book is chilling. The reader finds himself cheering Kenny on, even as an impartial view shows that he is doing a horrific crime. The devolution of the men's relationship mimics the devolution of Kenny's health and sanity. Neil Cross is a screenwriter who wrote for the Dr. Who and Spooks television series in England before writing the tremendously successful Luther series. One of his novels has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. This novel is recommended for mystery readers.

95% excellent, 5%.hmm

Not my first time around the block with this author as I have previously enjoyed Luther: The Calling (I canât recall if this came before the TV show with Idris Elba or was an after-thought); and in the days long before the blog was in action Mr In-Between and Burial. Needless to say, there are a few others on the pile waiting for a read.

Unusual set-up with a dying man, attempting to reach out to people he feels he has let down in the past. Most notable of these and soon to become the major focus of Kennyâs actions is school friend, Callie. Kenny pays his ex-copper friend Pat Maxwellto track her down.

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Titolo: Il segreto del bosco vecchio

Autore: Dino Buzzati

Narratore: Claudio Carini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 4 hrs and 33 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 11-23-11

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Valutazioni: 2 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Il romanzo di Buzzati è una storia semplice e fantastica, scritta nel 1935; una sorta di inno all'infanzia, ricolma di metamorfosi, sortilegi, magiche coincidenze e metafora del rapporto paradossale che l'umanità adulta ha con la Natura. Protagonista è il colonnello Sebastiano Procolo, che eredita dallo zio parte delle tenute della Valle di Fondo, il cosiddetto "Bosco Vecchio", mentre il resto è stato lasciato al nipote dodicenne di Sebastiano, Benvenuto, che vive in un collegio non lontano da Fondo. Ben presto l'avidità del colonnello lo spingerà a desiderare l'intero bosco per poterne sfruttare appieno le risorse abbattendone gli alberi. I genii, custodi secolari degli alberi si opporranno alle sue intenzioni e alla fine il colonnello, sconfitto e pentito, accetterà di piegarsi alla segreta sacralità del bosco e delle sue creature. Il romanzo è diventato anche film per la regia di Ermanno Olmi (1993).

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Recensioni dei membri:

Bellissimo!

Una stupenda fiaba Italiana: molto profonda, garbata e fuori dal tempo. Un vero piacere ascoltarla.

Anche l'interpretazione è molto convincente.

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Title: KBL: Kill Bin Laden

Author: John Weisman

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-11

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling military thriller writer and coauthor of the bestselling Rogue Warrior series goes beyond the headlines and worldwide speculation in this pulse-pounding fictional account of the breathtaking hunt for the worlds most wanted terrorist, Usama Bin Laden....

Some truths are better told in fiction. In this riveting novel drawn from actual events and based on real-life heroes whose identities remain classified - including soldiers, sailors, intelligence operatives, technocrats, analysts, and policymakers - John Weisman fills in the blanks of what may have happened during the hunt and capture of Usama Bin Laden.

Moving from the political battlefields of Washington, D.C., and the secure, seventh-floor suite of the CIA director in Langley, Virginia, to the dusty streets of Peshawar, Lahore, and Abbottabad, Pakistan, to the rough Afghan interior, to the Middle East and western Europe, this fictional narrative brings to life the drama behind SEAL Team 6s breathtaking raid in which Bin Laden - a.k.a. Crankshaft, a.k.a. al Mas (the Diamond), the ghost, the wraith, the grail for counterterrorists for more than a decade - met his fate.

In the Oval Office, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department, Washingtons power brokers, the president, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Secretary of Defense conduct secret meetings, battle for political supremacy, and make life-and-death choices. Meanwhile, at an anonymous naval installation just south of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Naval Special Warfare Development Group trains in secret for the mission of a lifetime. And at Vallhalla Base, the CIAs safe house in Abbottabad, dedicated intelligence officers gather intel critical to locating and capturing the elusive Bin Laden.

Members Reviews:

Really a Must to Read

This is a great book. If you read on kindle you MUST have pen and pad available to note the acronyms and their associated groups/teams/bureaus, etc. There is no glossary at the end of the book but i do understand that if you buy the actual book there is a glossary to refer to, it's just not on the kindle. My only difficulty was remembering what letters stood for what groups and how it related to what was going on in the book. I will reread and have my pen and pad available. I would imagine that this viewpoint is closer to the truth than what we were LED to believe from the media. You'll recognize Hillary (with another name) and the President is only referred to as President.......interesting!

Ripped from the headlines

Bottom Line Up Front: I couldn't put this book down. It is simply outstanding.

John Weisman has written a narrative that seamlessly blends fact and fiction, leaving the reader wondering where the one stops and the other starts. He has ripped more than a years worth of headlines from the AfPak conflict (most notably the Raymond Davis saga--upon which he puts an clever spin) to create a story that is fast paced and incredibly realistic. It doesn't matter how much of it is fact and how much is pure fiction.

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Title: Death in Ecstasy

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Tim Bentinck

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Once again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide. In investigating her death he finds the High Priest and his followers are more enmeshed is the earthly passions of lust and jealousy than they would like to imagine. It may hail from the 'golden age' of the whodunit, but Ngaio Marsh's Death in Ecstasy contains enough of the dark secrets of a ritualistic cult and the hidden depths of London's drug world to satisfy the modern reader.

Members Reviews:

Not the best Ngaio March

I'm a big fan of the Inspector Alleyn books, but this is not the best of them. The story is thin and the narrator has made some odd choices for the voices of the main characters. Alleyn' voice is particularly irritating. Too bad.

enjoyable, a good read

very well read and produced, but mystery stories that end with the rabbit being pulled out of a hat always frustrate me. it wasn't as much of a magic trick as some of agatha Christie's , but i had it narrowed down as much as Allain when the rabbit jumped for him. Still, it was definitely enjoyable, and im sure I'll listen to it again sometime.

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Title: Kindred Spirits

Author: Sarah Strohmeyer

Narrator: Barbara McCulloh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The best-selling author of the Bubbles series, Sarah Strohmeyer pens book-club-favorite novels of immense appeal.

In Kindred Spirits, four young mothers strike up a friendship at a PTA meeting and soon after form the Ladies Society for the Conservation of Martinis. A twist of fate forces them apart, but when one of them dies, the women discover how much they mean to each other.

Members Reviews:

Dissapointing

I usually love Sarah Strohmeyer, and have a couple of her books that I have reread several times. When I pick up her books, I am not looking for anything profound, just a little fun. I had to WADE THROUGH this. It was the longest nine hours of my life. I really only finished it because I was sick and couldn't sleep one night. The plot was uninteresting, the characters not lovable and undeveloped. This is not Bubbles, this is not Cinderella. Slow and boring. Sorry Sarah.