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Then: Linda has it all: a gorgeous home, a devoted husband, two loving daughters. But she throws it all away to chase an impossible dream. Now: Linda is alone and penniless, living in a shabby rented flat. With nothing to lose, she signs up to a dating app for the over 50s. But the one man who responds to her profile, a man calling himself Tony Fortin, is not who he says he is. Linda recognises him immediately. He’s Marcus, her second husband. But that’s impossible. Marcus died eight months ago. He drowned off the coast of Corfu.
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- De Lisa en 06-22-24
De: Jane E. James
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Verity
- De: Colleen Hoover
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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.
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intriguing but skip if triggered by child abuse
- De Amazon Customer en 05-16-19
De: Colleen Hoover
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Home Is Where the Bodies Are
- De: Jeneva Rose
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After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.
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Really Predictable… Kept Hoping it Would Change
- De JB en 05-22-24
De: Jeneva Rose
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A Murder to Remember
- De: Brynn Kelly
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Max Roll
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Jane Austen fan Amelia Bennett sneaks away from a dull tour of an English country manor, only to run into a man more dashing than Mr. Darcy himself. About to lose his ancestral home to family debts, charming aristocrat Tom Calder invites his American guest to join him in drinking his way through the estate’s priceless wine collection. But when they wake in his bed the next morning, they’re convinced that in their drunken haze they witnessed a murder. Problem is, the body has vanished and no one believes them.
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Fun rom-com mystery
- De C. Wright en 03-01-24
De: Brynn Kelly
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Breaking the Dark
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- De: Lisa Jewell
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
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Meet Jessica Jones: retired superhero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK.
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Unexpected and captivating
- De Misesarah en 07-05-24
De: Lisa Jewell
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One of Us Is Dead
- De: Jeneva Rose
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt, Hillary Huber, Elizabeth Evans, y otros
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Buckhead isn’t a place you live, it’s a place you survive. And that applies even to the wealthy housewives that have it all. Fancy cars, designer clothes, and daily salon appointments aren’t nearly enough to keep them fulfilled and happy. Because in this town, privilege and opulence go hand in hand with betrayal and revenge. Jenny, the owner of Glow, an exclusive membership-only beauty salon, knows that better than anyone, because she knows everything about these housewives—down to each individual strand of hair.
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Great mystery. Sexually graphic.
- De Sue en 09-04-22
De: Jeneva Rose
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Suzuki is an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, Suzuki abandons his law-abiding lifestyle and takes a low-level job with a front company operated by the crime gang Maiden, who are responsible for his wife’s death. Before long, Suzuki finds himself caught up in a network of quirky and highly effective assassins.
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Warday
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Five years after a "limited" nuclear war, two survivors journey across America. They - and you - will discover what is left of our way of life, the depth of the devastation, and the hopes of a new society desperately struggling to be born.
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The End of August
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Lacks a point
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The Decagon House Murders
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Warday
- De: Whitley Strieber, James Kunetka
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The End of August
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What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.
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Speculative & Creative, Yet well Paced and Unique
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In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Everyone else has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he stalks the sleeping undead, by night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
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Superb!
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The Memory Police
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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A Calm, Quiet Dystopian
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Malice
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Acclaimed best-selling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he’s planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems.
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Worth reading; the previous two books were better
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The Honjin Murders
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In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house.
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Enjoyable, Some Audible issues.
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The Best of Richard Matheson
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Rich and thrilling storytelling
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The Witchcraft of Salem Village
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Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches.
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A true historical horror
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“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born". An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy - abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued, and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape - but he can’t stop society’s collapse.
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You love it or you hate it...
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Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves. Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events.
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Idk who needs to see this, but TRIGGER WARNING
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The Cabin at the End of the World
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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.”
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Turn right after 300 yards
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The Forever War
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William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?
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A classic.
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Roadside Picnic
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty", something goes wrong.
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Gritty, resonant sci-fi classic
- De Ryan en 02-14-13
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- Jason
- 01-25-13
great book, bad narration
This is a great book, not a great audiobook. I read this book twice and decided that it would be fun to listen to it in my spare time since I loved it so much, bad mistake. The narrator is the worst narrator I have ever heard. ever. This is an emotional book and he puts no emotion into it. The characters all sound the same and when someone is dying and yelling at their enemy he reads the same as if they were talking to a friend. He does do a good job pronouncing names but this in no way makes up for how horrible he did with everything else. the narrator manages to make a book that is so intense and exciting come off as such a boring book. sometimes you dont even understand what is going on because of how horrible it is read. I hope that they decide to make another version read by someone that can put emotion into characters. If you really want to enjoy battle royale just pick up the hard copy of the book, it is so much better.
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- Wynter Raeven
- 09-25-12
Slightly Monotone Narrative
What made the experience of listening to Battle Royale the most enjoyable?
I've read this book twice, hard copy and always wanted an audible version so I could listen at work. The fact that Mark Dacascos was able to pronounce the Japanese names extremely well, his voice was slightly monotone. However, for me, it was fine because I'd read the book before and hearing the action sequences rather than reading them made what was happening more clear.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Battle Royale?
Kiriyama's ruthlessness as he took out two girls at close range. Yikes! That scene in the book and the movie always makes me cringe.
What about Mark Dacascos’s performance did you like?
His pronunciation of Japanese names.
If you could take any character from Battle Royale out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Shinji Mimura ;)
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- Daniel
- 03-12-15
Hyper-graphic teenage murder drama
first--_Hunger Games_ is closely related to this book, though Collins cut out most of the explicit descriptions of the violence and made the ending/political themes more complex--though _Battle Royale_ is longer and more nuanced.
_Battle Royale_ is mostly preoccupied with descriptions of teenage angst and mistrust. The 'program' is an excellent setting for such a project, as it reduces every encounter to a catalyst for the students' motives and insecurities to play out in dramatic action. The political commentary that frames the whole story--'fascism and corrupted conservatism create an irresistable state of efficient oppression we can't break away from'--is also nicely described in the actions of the students.
Some of the writing (perhaps only the translation?) is a bit clunky and formulaic, and the performance of the reader here only accentuates that. A revised edition/translation and some careful direction for the voice talent would go a long way to making this a much better audiobook.
Dacascos reads with a good sense for pace and he gets the emotion of the main (male) characters just right, but it's a subtle and monotone reading and might come off as boring if you're hoping, for example, to hear the panic or fear or anguish in some of the students' words. He also steamrolls through some of the detail in complex dialog or description, which is where a little direction would have helped. The accent seems close enough to Japanese to be believable to my untrained ear, not sure if that's how Dacascos reads his other parts.
I enjoyed this book, but the graphic descriptions of murderous violence (not to mention a seduction-turned-murder) aren't easy to listen to. Caveat auditor.
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- K. Rob.
- 09-04-15
Not for the faint of heart...
What a great book!
I picked it up because a friend heard me raving about The Hunger Games trilogy and vehemently expressed his disdain for it, stating the author had "bitten" this story. I loved all three of The Hunger Games books so I decided to check it out. I had to get the audiobook to accompany it because a book as long as this one will take me forever to get through if I am not able to listen to it while I drive.
Surely this isn't the first ever book that has been written about a fight to the death but it seems to me pretty unique in that junior high students are put into the mix as the contestants.
There are definitely a lot of parallels and similarities and while no one can say for sure if The Hunger Games blatantly "bit" Battle Royale, it is clear that the author read this book prior to writing hers and definitely tailored it to be extremely similar.
But hey, whatever... Nothing is new under the sun.
Normally, I have to question the editing of a book that is more than 400 pages. Maybe it's my journalistic training but I just don't understand what you have to say in 600+ pages that you couldn't say in 400. If your book is that long, it better be brimming with absolutely necessary prose or I'm going to be pissed. Every page of Battle Royale was absolutely necessary.
Although there were clear main characters, I love how nearly all of the 42 student perspectives were shown. It made it that much more heart-wrenching when one of the students I liked died. My dialogue with the book while reading surely made my husband think I was nuts. I was constantly yelling "Noooo," "Are you serious!" and "Don't trust him/her! Kill him/her!" It was an emotional roller coaster and I very much enjoyed the ride.
Short chapters are essential to me. I need frequent breaks in a story. This book did not disappoint in that regard. I also enjoyed the official count of how many students were still alive at the end of each chapter. It added to the anticipation. I found myself skipping ahead and looking at the count thinking "Oh no! 3 students are going to die! Please don't let it be ______!" The descriptions of the violence, blood, and gore were so thorough that I found myself turning my face away from the book in horror as the images came to life in my mind. Yikes!
Not sure why people said the names were confusing. I had no problem distinguishing the 42 Japanese names. I also thought the narrator did a great job distinguishing voices. Some people didn't like the narrator but I really did.
19hours and I finished it in 4 days because I could not turn it off.
While I loved the Hunger Games, I will say this; if I had read this first, I would not have liked The Hunger Games nearly as much...
Who knows what the future will bring, but as of this very moment, Battle Royale is my favorite read of the year...
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- Daniel Ugenti
- 06-13-19
great, original story
the story has some cliches, but the concept is so unique. the tension is high the entire time. the only drawback is that there are some characters who only show up for one chapter or so toward the end.
also while the narration is adequate, there are so many different characters that you wish the reader used some different voices for characters to help distinguish them.
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- Lindsey
- 02-01-19
Good Story, Annoying Narrator
This book was really good once I got the names down. I really had trouble in the beginning because the names are foriegn for me and hard to remember. Other than that I loved the story. But, the narrator had this horrible whistling sound when he pronounced a S in a word. So bad sometimes i just wanted to turn it off.
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- Kristian Conroy
- 03-20-16
Love the story.
Honestly this is one of my favorite stories. Definitely not a tale for everyone but it's best in the genre if you ask me. Thought the audio performance was very good too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-17
Excellent novel
Honestly if it hadn't been for a handful of multiplayer pc games based on the concept of this book, I probably never would have discovered it. I'm glad I did. As a fan of The Hunger Games series (which many people say ripped off thus book), I loved this book and the fact that it's setting is more grounded in reality. Highly recommended this one!
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- 12-23-21
Hunger Games Meets Squid Game Meets Japanese Teens
This book gave me One Hundred Years of Solitude flashbacks, when I had to give up keeping up with the family tree and focused on the story because I kept getting lost. Particularly if you're listening and not reading, it gets really hard to follow all the Japanese names and remember who is who, because there more than 42 of them! However, it is an interesting dystopian story very much like Hunger Games and Squid Game, but with high school teenagers bringing out their own life traumas while trying to survive.
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- Echo 7
- 07-07-22
Genuine good book
Predating other similar books, this is a well written, very thoughtful. It is good satire on how people can become an inconvenience for the government. I know i am late to the party, reading this, however this book has aged well and i found it surprising relevant despite the decades passing.
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