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An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family’s history, Claire Messud animates her characters’ rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. As profoundly intimate as it is expansive, This Strange Eventful History is “a tour de force … one of those rare novels that a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the characters” (Yiyun Li).
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Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny. When weathered old sailor Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins' parents, it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. When Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest, where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold.
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A reflective adventure
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
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In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At its core is a dead zone, devoid of life, where government agencies crash their obsolete satellites and space stations, confident they won't harm a soul. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it's here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist studying living space dust called xylem, finds herself marooned. Julie's only hope for rescue lies in the hands of her estranged father, Dr. Finn Maddern, a renowned mycologist.
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Totally original-totally feasible!
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Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise. When a child vanishes on the night of the party, their perfect island weekend is ripped apart. Even paradise harbours murky secrets… Has he been taken? Has he drowned? In the panic to find any trace, Penny casts about for someone to blame—even if that person is her own daughter, Rosie. Even clear waters descend to pitch black.
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Intriguing, Engaging, AND BEST NARATORS EVER
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When the call came it seemed like the answer to my prayers. My career as a voice actor had been over for months and me and my little girl Scarlet were living back at my mum’s place. I felt like a failure professionally—and with Scarlet having problems at school, as a parent as well. So, when I was asked to narrate a new book by disappeared novelist Philippa Roberts I jumped at the chance, even if it meant leaving Scarlet with my ex, Hugo, for a few weeks. Hugo, with his perfect new home and his perfect new girlfriend Saskia. But this isn’t a dream come true. It’s a nightmare.
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Love but it's a production issue!
- By Mary on 09-02-22
By: K. L. Slater
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- Thomp/Suis
- 05-17-24
Be Prepared for a Jarring Narration
I had been looking forward to listening to this new book by Claire Messud, both for her reputation as a writer and for the subject matter. I purchased the audiobook on the day of publication. Cassandra Campbell has a lovely voice, and I enjoyed her reading of Where the Crawdads Sings. However. A big however. In this book, the characters are multinational, many of them multilingual, with complex personal histories in Beirut, Algiers, Salonica, Paris, Poland, and elsewhere. Understandably, this presents a challenge in voicing the different characters with regard to their accents. Unfortunately, Ms. Campbell, apparently with the assent of the recording's director, has opted for an unbelievably heavy approach, especially with the French accent for the central characters. The "zeess" and "zatt" for "this" and "that" are so thick you can cut them with a couteau - to the point of parody. This is apparent very early in the book with the two young French pied-noir children, a brother and sister, who are in exile in Algiers, and who speak to each other in such heavy French accents that you cannot avoid thinking of Loony Tunes' Pepe Le Pew. Such exaggerated accents are absurd for a brother and sister who would of course hear each other entirely without accent. A light touch to indicate character and native tongue would have been so welcome - a masterful example is David Pittu's narration of Fernando Aramburu's "Homeland", where the characters toggle between Spanish and Basque. Unfortunately, Ms. Campbell seems to treat this narration as an opportunity to demonstrate her prowess with various accents. This range would be amusing, even impressive, as an audition tape, but as the narration for a serious work of fiction, it is impossible to ignore the overkill, and has just about spoiled the book for me. I hope it does not for you, but I recommend listening to the sample before purchasing. I'm sorry to write such a negative review, but this could so easily have been avoided with a firmer hand from the production staff.
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- ann
- 05-26-24
Riveting , Elegiac, perfectly Evocative
Beautiful in every way. The characters are deeply portrayed . The historical moments intensely, gently vivid .
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- Bluebird
- 05-21-24
accents drove me nuts
I read great reviews for this book and was anxious to download it. I have two problems with it. First, the accents are a serious distraction, I've stopped the audio at times to get a break from them. Second the book is so darn earnest.
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