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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

By on April 10, 2010 in 2009

From AudioFile magazine:At 34 hours in length, this is quite a tome, but there’s no one better qualified than Simon Vance to lead us through this audio journey. He parses the author’s long sentences well, pausing sufficiently to make the details easy to follow while still maintaining a quick enough pace to keep the story [...]

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Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey

By on March 1, 2010 in 2009, 2010

From AudioFile Magazine:Imriel was once a pirates’ slave. It’s no wonder that he’s sometimes unpredictable and seemingly lost in a dark place—but he’s always loyal to the few he calls friends. During his sojourns, he studies at university and then travels to a friend’s wedding, ending up in a city under siege. There he fights [...]

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Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

By on July 21, 2009 in 2009, My Personal Favorites

From AudioFile Magazine:Set in medieval Germany, this much-lauded 1930 novel contrasts its hero, the mercurial wandering artist Goldmund, with his great friend, Narcissus, an Apollonian intellectual and priest. The former meanders through medieval Germany, womanizing and striving to discover the meaning of his wayward life, while the latter dedicates his life to science and contemplation. [...]

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The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

By on March 1, 2009 in 2009

From AudioFile magazine:Fair warning: Once begun, you will not be able to stop listening to this audiobook. So prepare to spend a lot of sleepless time with fabulous narrator Simon Vance and amazing Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. This sequel to Larsson’s critically acclaimed bestseller, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, which Vance also narrated, reunites [...]

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

By on February 1, 2009 in 2009, My Personal Favorites

From AudioFile Magazine:The art of detection was in its infancy when the murder of 3-year-old Saville Kent rocked Britain’s sensibilities. The child’s body was found on the family’s estate, stuffed down the servants’ outdoor privy. It was a week before DI Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard was called in to investigate. Summerscale uses excerpts from [...]

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Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears

By on January 30, 2009 in 2009, My Personal Favorites

From AudioFile Magazine:Iain Pears unravels the story of an English arms supplier whose mysterious death (and mysterious wife) intersect with twentieth-century history. This lengthy story proceeds in a backwards chronology, starting in England in 1909 (after a prologue set in the 1950s), moving to Paris in the 1890s, and then to Venice in 1867. Like [...]

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