James M. Patton
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A Very Punchable Face
- A Memoir
- By: Colin Jost
- Narrated by: Colin Jost
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,000
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,652
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,597
If there’s one trait that makes someone well-suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch - metaphorically and, occasionally, physically. Told with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest sketches on television, and lays bare the heart and humor of a hardworking guy - with a face you can’t help but want to punch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Erin E. Kace on 07-27-20
- A Very Punchable Face
- A Memoir
- By: Colin Jost
- Narrated by: Colin Jost
The best part of recent SNL is here!!
Reviewed: 10-10-20
Weekend Update has become the best part of SNL in recent years and Colin Jost brings all of that humor and more to his memoir.
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Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime
- By: Dan Rather
- Narrated by: Dan Rather
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,860
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,609
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,529
Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater. In this deeply personal show, the legendary Peabody Award-winning journalist takes audiences through the most pivotal moments of his life, from surviving a debilitating illness as a child in Depression-era Texas to covering monumental moments in American history such as the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of JFK, and Watergate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too Political
- By JAV on 08-07-20
- Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime
- By: Dan Rather
- Narrated by: Dan Rather
A great time capsule from the front lines of life.
Reviewed: 10-10-20
Rather does a great job of taking us through so many of the historical events that occurred during his time as a reporter.
A great telling of his life, and ours!
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Thicker than Water
- By: Tyler Shultz
- Narrated by: Tyler Shultz
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,921
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,869
From the hero whistleblower of the infamous Theranos scam, Thicker than Water is a look at never-before-revealed details behind closed doors at the company, revealing a cautionary tale of corporate bullying, gaslighting, ego, and wealth running amok in Silicon Valley. Tyler Shultz had been in the workforce for less than a year when he emailed Elizabeth Holmes, his employer and the CEO and founder of Theranos, with concerns that the company’s lab practices were faulty, ignored quality control, and were potentially dangerous to patients.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Beautiful Soul
- By J.Shultz on 08-05-20
- Thicker than Water
- By: Tyler Shultz
- Narrated by: Tyler Shultz
You Can't Get Much More Inside Than This!
Reviewed: 10-10-20
An insider's telling of one of the biggest cons in the era of Enron. Interested to see how the case is resolved.
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Funny Amazon Reviews
- By: Jane Lynch
- Narrated by: Jane Lynch
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3,702
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,050
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Story3 out of 5 stars 3,035
Famous comedians reading real Amazon product reviews. Hosted by Jane Lynch and presented by Audible. Featuring Lewis Black, John O'Hurley, Joel McHale, Margaret Cho, Eugene Mirman, Kurt Braunohler, Lauren Cook, Jonathan Katz, Laura Silverman, Melissa Villasenor, Ron Funches, Gilbert Gottfried, Dan Savage, Vern Musical Improv.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This changed my life
- By Romeo421 on 07-10-17
- Funny Amazon Reviews
- By: Jane Lynch
- Narrated by: Jane Lynch
These are hilarious!
Reviewed: 10-10-20
Between the reviews and the performers bringing them to life, this was a fun listen,
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Ghost in the Wires
- My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- By: Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,875
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,722
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,736
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies—and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For a smart guy, Mitnick was an idiot
- By Joshua on 09-17-14
- Ghost in the Wires
- My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
- By: Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Addictive! The rare book hard to turn off.
Reviewed: 10-10-20
Having read American Kingpin, this was recommended. Good call! This was a fantastic listen and was hard to turn off when I had to do things like work and sleep.
If you are interested in the science of how people are manipulated and the history of hacking, this is a good listen.
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The Unexpected Spy
- From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
- By: Tracy Walder, Jessica Anya Blau
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 820
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Story4 out of 5 stars 724
The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder and CIA Director George Tenet brought her donuts. She tracked chemical terrorists and searched the world for Weapons of Mass Destruction. She created a chemical terror chart that someone in the White House altered to convey information she did not have or believe, leading to the Iraq invasion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This book is word redacted CIA review
- By Keribee on 02-25-20
- The Unexpected Spy
- From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
- By: Tracy Walder, Jessica Anya Blau
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
Great comparison of time in CIA vs FBI.
Reviewed: 10-10-20
Walder does a great job of walking us through her life and time in both the CIA and the FBI.
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Chasing the Light
- Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
- By: Oliver Stone
- Narrated by: Oliver Stone
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story5 out of 5 stars 258
An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- By Merle O. Tanner on 10-07-20
- Chasing the Light
- Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
- By: Oliver Stone
- Narrated by: Oliver Stone
2/3 Personal, 1/3 Movie Making
Reviewed: 10-10-20
I know there is a demographic that buys Vietnam autobiographies and I support anyone that fought for our country, but I bought this to hear about Stone's film career. While about 1/3 of the book is about his experiences making films, a lot of it is about his time in Vietnam and the aftermath of his time there.
Read in Stone's monotone voice, it was okay, but not entertaining for the most part.
Tell your story how you want, but here is the formula for a good memoir/biography: Start out discussing what we know you for (movie making and Hollywood in this instance). Then, if there are times in your life or people that play a part in what we know you for, work those parts of your life into the story.
Anyone who writes a book starting with their grandparents, through to their parents, through to their birth, through their youth, and 6 to 9 hours in finally starts discussing what we know them for, is doing a history report.
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Name Drop
- By: Ross Mathews
- Narrated by: Ross Mathews
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 538
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 536
Television personality Ross Mathews likes telling stories. He was always outrageous and hilariously honest, even when the biggest celebrity he knew was his favorite lunch lady in the school cafeteria. Now that he has Hollywood experience - from interning behind the scenes at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to judging RuPaul’s Drag Race - he has a lot to talk about. In Name Drop, Ross dishes about being an unlikely insider in the alternate reality that is showbiz.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So funny! great performance on the reading!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-05-20
- Name Drop
- By: Ross Mathews
- Narrated by: Ross Mathews
More Please!!!!
Reviewed: 10-10-20
I loved Man Up, and when I saw Ross Mathews had written another book, I looked forward to it. If Ross could just go ahead and find the time to write 5 of these a year, that would be great.
His stories, his wit, his hilarity are fantastic. If you like hearing about celebrities and do not mind the author doing a great job of entertaining you while sharing their real-life experiences from coast to coast, this book is for you.
More, please!!!
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Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist
- The A-List Kingpin and the Poker Ring that Brought Down Tinseltown (The Front Page Detectives Series)
- By: Dylan Howard, Houston Curtis
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin's is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The sample audio is not the actual narrator
- By Kai Ellis on 12-16-21
- Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist
- The A-List Kingpin and the Poker Ring that Brought Down Tinseltown (The Front Page Detectives Series)
- By: Dylan Howard, Houston Curtis
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Stefan Rudnicki
A second perspective of the Molly's Game tale.
Reviewed: 10-10-20
I greatly enjoyed "Molly's Game", the book and the movie, so when I saw that more of the story was available from another perspective, I got it. While it only covers the portion of her story that Houston Curtis was involved in, the early games, it sheds more light on the story,
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Memoirs of a Literary Forger
- By: Lee Israel
- Narrated by: Jane Curtin
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Story4 out of 5 stars 240
Before turning to her life of crime - running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI - Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she’d received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fast, fun listen. (The movie is better.)
- By David P on 12-06-18
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Memoirs of a Literary Forger
- By: Lee Israel
- Narrated by: Jane Curtin
I learned so much. Curtain the perfect narrator.
Reviewed: 05-19-20
I chose to read this after seeing the fantastic movie. This book, while under 3 hours, does a great job of giving more detail about the story told in the movie.
And to have Jane Curtain read it after seeing her tour de force performance as Lee Israel's agent in the movie, it is the perfect companion to the film. I wish there was more!!
For the record, I think, while it may steer its way more into fiction, that it would be great to have Curtain have a film of her own about the agent character. There were so many scenes where we walked in and out on her character in the movie. I would love to see either more of the movie as a whole (all of the characters) or at least Curtain. The character was so richly played that I thought it truly deserved 2 hours of its own. An Oscar wouldn't hurt either.
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