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Tai-Pan
- The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 2
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 32 hrs and 11 mins
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Publisher's summary
The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
“There can only be one Tai-Pan.”
Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations.
Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final moment.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 198
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Story5 out of 5 stars 196
Dominic LeVeq, the most notorious privateer ever to command the high seas, has just captured a coveted prize: a British frigate. On a dangerous mission against the Crown, Dominic should be thinking only of his ship's safety. But the rebel captain is utterly entranced by Clare Sullivan, the stunning slave on board. Consumed by desire, desperate to have her, Dominic offers Clare her freedom in exchange for a forbidden night in his bed - a night he assures her will be most pleasurable indeed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The start of family LeVeq!
- By Angela Davis on 10-24-21
By: Beverly Jenkins
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The Devil and the Dark Water
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 713
It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes?
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3 out of 5 stars
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A decent yarn
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By: Stuart Turton
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My Name Is Resolute
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Story5 out of 5 stars 227
The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free.
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A life well lived!
- By Anonymous User on 06-20-23
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Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
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This is so good, but
- By Christopher on 04-30-16
By: Joseph Fink, and others
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Quillifer
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- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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Quillifer is young, serially in love, studying law, and living each day keenly aware that his beloved homeport of Ethlebight risks closure due to silting of the harbor. His concerns for the future become much more immediate when he returns from a summery assignation to find his city attacked by Aekoi pirates, leading to brigands in the streets and his family and friends in chains.
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The opposite of George R R Martin (in a good way)
- By A reader on 10-30-17
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- By: James Clavell
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
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After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss.
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- By Ryan on 01-20-24
By: James Clavell
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The King's Coat
- By: Dewey Lambdin
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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It is 1780, and 17-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of naval discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding - rather unexpectedly - that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas. But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise.
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"Sex, Swords, Sailing Ships"
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Raised in post-Revolution Granville, Massachusetts, James Gould could only imagine the beauty and warmth of the lands to the south. It was there that he longed to build bridges and lighthouses from his very own designs and plans. His gripping story unfolds as Gould follows his dream to the raw settlement of Bangor on the Penobscot River, St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, lawless Spanish East Florida, and back - at last and finally - to St. Simons.
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Re: Wonderful Story
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Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of 18th-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes it clicks
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The Bright and Breaking Sea
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- By: Chloe Neill
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Kit Brightling, rescued as a foundling and raised in a home for talented girls, has worked hard to rise through the ranks of the Isles' Crown Command and become one of the few female captains in Queen Charlotte's fleet. Her ship is small, but she's fast - in part because of Kit's magical affinity to the sea. But the waters become perilous when the queen sends Kit on a special mission with a partner she never asked for. Rian Grant, Viscount Queenscliffe, may be a veteran of the Continental war, but Kit doesn't know him or his motives....
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's really good, but not quite great
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By: Chloe Neill
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By the Mast Divided
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London: 1793. Young firebrand John Pearce, on the run from the authorities, is illegally press-ganged from the Pelican tavern into brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on her way to war. In the first few days, Pearce discovers the Navy is a world in which he can prosper. And he is not alone; he is drawn to a group of men who eventually form an exclusive gun crew, the Pelicans, with Pearce their elected leader.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't work for me
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By: David Donachie
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A Beautiful Blue Death
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Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like cozy
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Something About Emmaline
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Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, is a gentleman to be envied. He lives a rakish life of well-celebrated ease and contentment and has one person to thank for his perfectly ordered existence - his dearest wife, Emmaline. She never complains about his mistresses or his penchant for late nights out. His friends are envious, but they don't know the truth - Emmaline doesn't exist. But when he starts receiving bills from London for clothes, shoes, hats, and a staggering amount of other female accouterments, he realizes something is decidedly amiss.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Emmaline, the perfect wife, until.......
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- By: Patrick O'Brian
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This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Choice of Narrators
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Spymaster
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Captain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen of Freya, to find a young man who claims to be the true heir to the Freyan, she begins to believe that her ship has finally come in. But no fair wind lasts forever. Soon Kate's checkered past will catch up to her. It will take more than just quick wits and her considerable luck if she hopes to bring herself - and her crew - through intact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantasy, Dragons, Pirates & Steampunk Airships!!
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Vampirates
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Conor and Grace are twins, recently orphaned after their widowed father's death. They decide to set sail for new pastures in their father's last possession, his sailboat. But a vicious storm capsizes their boat, and the twins are separated. Two mysterious ships sail to their rescue, each picking up one twin before disappearing into the mist. Conor wakes to find himself on a pirate ship; Grace finds herself locked in a darkened room, as the vampirates wait for night to fall and their feasting to begin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent... with a lackluster finale
- By Halbert on 11-29-07
By: Justin Somper
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Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depth of Detail was incredible!
- By Gentry S on 03-19-24
By: Donald L. Miller
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The Black Company
- Chronicles of The Black Company, Book 1
- By: Glen Cook
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,318
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Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead - until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard Boiled Morally Ambiguous Epic Fantasy
- By Jefferson on 03-18-11
By: Glen Cook
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Midshipman's Hope
- The Seafort Saga, Book 1
- By: David Feintuch
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When a hideous accident kills the senior officers of the UNS Hibernia, it leaves a terrified young officer to save 300 colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship on a 17-month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement, Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion, and guilt. He must conquer malfunctions, mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding. And he must save lives, and take them - in the name of duty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Writing, Decent Story
- By Striker on 09-13-15
By: David Feintuch
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Nicholas Barnes
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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"Friday January 2nd. I felt rotten today. It’s my mother's fault for singing "My Way" at two o clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home..." Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and misunderstood intellectual, Adrian's painfully honest diary is a hilarious and compelling listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hapless, clueless, and hysterically funny
- By Sheila on 08-31-12
By: Sue Townsend
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The Religion
- A Novel
- By: Tim Willocks
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 415
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May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the Knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the "The Hounds of Hell." The Knights call themselves "The Religion." In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla la Penautier, seeks a passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago. T
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3 out of 5 stars
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gripping but shallow & too graphic
- By Matthew on 11-17-08
By: Tim Willocks
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Diablo: The Black Road - Book Two
- Blizzard Legends
- By: Mel Odom
- Narrated by: Josh Clark
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a soldier of fortune and champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power calls to Darrick, and his only hope may be to walk the same perilous path of damnation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Best in the Series
- By Colleen Yeaton on 07-22-20
By: Mel Odom
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Hawaii
- A Novel
- By: James A. Michener, Steve Berry - introduction
- Narrated by: Larry McKeever, Fred Sanders - introduction
- Length: 51 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,019
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,761
The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish themselves in the islands.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Much to My Surprise, I Really Liked It
- By Donna L. Leary on 05-16-18
By: James A. Michener, and others
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- Amanda Dappen
- 12-16-15
Incredible story and narration
I HIGHLY recommend this audiobook!! The writing is fantastic and complex. The narration is Worthy of awards- it's incredible how many characters he is able to embody.
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- terp
- 06-30-15
A magnificent story.
The narrator of this book was amazing truly brought all the characters to life. I was riveted to this book didn't want to put it down to do anything else that I had to do I just wanted to read on and on. that's one of the things I love about James Clavell books.
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- Brainmeister
- 05-13-19
kowtow to Clavell
excellent reading and even more excellent story! very interesting period of Chinese history. I highly recommend!
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- Elaine Beulah Whitman
- 10-25-17
An amazing story and an amazing reader.
I enjoyed listening to this book, and the story of the Tai pan had excellent pacing. The reader did an excellent job of doing all of the voices making each one unique and memorable. It does have some graphic moments but I think it is very worth the listen.
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- William Davidson
- 01-20-19
great history, action, and wisdom!
A great book with action, romance, and a deep dive into Chinese culture and immersive history!
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- Nate
- 10-09-17
excellent narration
this book only gets better from page 1. narration was extremely well done. only wish it was not over.
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- Robert E.
- 06-07-18
Masterpiece and masterful reading.
Another Clavell masterpiece. A truly inspiring and genius narration. The voices of the different characters continue to ring in my mind. Fanatastical, nevermind.
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- john
- 05-04-20
Epic!
Fantastical good, never you mind! (Homage to May-May). Clavell is a masterful story teller. So much historic accuracy was woven throughout this tail, much like Shogun. it was a total pleasure, I didn't want it to end.
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- John G. Strebler
- 08-06-18
Great story and great narration
This is one of my favorites from Clavell, There are interesting characters, compelling plot lines and lots of action. Clavell makes you feel the East-West cultural differences of the era while drawing you into the storylines.
Gildart Jackson does an outstanding job with the narration. There are many characters with a variety of nationalities and he makes it easy to tell them apart, while having an extremely easy voice to listen to,
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- Attila the Pun
- 02-20-19
Oddly thrilling
Narration is dynamic with several impressions of various accents which is seriously impressive. The story is engaging from the beginning. Incredibly long.
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