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Nicholas

Hampton, United Kingdom | Member Since 2006

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  • 8 reviews
  • 60 ratings
  • 92 titles in library
  • 1 purchased in 2013
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  • The Da Vinci Code

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 43 mins)
    • By Dan Brown
    • Narrated By Jeff Harding
    Overall
    (407)
    Performance
    (22)
    Story
    (22)

    Winner of the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2005.

    A murder in the silent, late night halls of the Louvre reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his cryptographer daughter and her symbologist friend can untangle.

    Stephen says: "The stressful car-ride to work?"
    "Enjoyable"
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    I wasn't expecting a great work but thought I ought to listen before I see the film. I loved the pace. I was gripped and wanted more.

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • Soul Gardening: 4 Guided Meditations

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 59 mins)
    • By Silvia Cecchini
    • Narrated By Silvia Cecchini
    Overall
    (1)
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    (0)
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    (0)

    Take care of yourself as you would a garden, it's easier than you think. When it is not a routine or you've had a busy day, meditation, based on silence, paying attention to ones breathing, observing without judging thoughts, can be difficult. Then, a voice that guides with simple gardening practices can lead, through metaphor, to feeling at peace and serenity.

    Nicholas says: "Appaling"
    "Appaling"
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    Appalling quality and therefore nonsensical. How this got onto audible is beyond me... there is clearly no quality control!

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Orlando

    • UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
    • By Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated By Clare Higgins
    Overall
    (33)
    Performance
    (3)
    Story
    (3)

    Fantasy, love offering, exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining novel. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character lives as both a man and a woman through four centuries.

    Nicholas says: "An imaginative classic..."
    "An imaginative classic..."
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    This is an outstanding pieces of literature. I came to this title by accident following a audible recommendation link from a previous title, The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffeneggar.
    This voyage through life and time is superb. Humorous, intense and subtle. He, then she, Orlando, touches, brushes and grasps each era from the 16th to the 20th century. An imaginative classic, this work is accessible and highly recommended!

    4 of 4 people found this review helpful
  • Meditations

    • UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 36 mins)
    • By Shakti Gawain
    • Narrated By Shakti Gawain
    Overall
    (5)
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    (0)
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    A fantastic boyage awaits. In this three-CD set, Shakti Gawain gently leads us through four exceptional guided meditations.

    Nicholas says: "Amazing"
    "Amazing"
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    This is a voyage within. The author is calm and natural in her delivery. I have found other meditations to be somewhat dogmatic in their approach, this is not.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Time Traveler's Wife

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 49 mins)
    • By Audrey Niffenegger
    • Narrated By William Hope, Laurel Lefkow
    Overall
    (987)
    Performance
    (17)
    Story
    (17)

    This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36, and were married when Clare was 22 and Henry 30. Impossible but true, because Henry has Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his past, present, and future.

    Wendy says: "Truly engrossing - couldn't put it down"
    "Very pleasing listen..."
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    Felt the first half was a little slow but once I arrived at the family Christmas I had became totally drawn into the intimacy of the relationship. Well worth a listen.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Magician's Nephew: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6

    • UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 55 mins)
    • By C.S. Lewis
    • Narrated By Kenneth Branagh
    Overall
    (82)
    Performance
    (6)
    Story
    (6)

    Written after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but designed by C.S. Lewis to be read first, this enchanting prequel, with its story of time travel, sorcery, and magic rings, is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn the backstory to the biggest movie release of the year. Hurled back in time to the birth of a new world, two young friends get caught in the epic struggle between Aslan and his nemesis the White Witch.

    Meredith says: "I think it's great!"
    "Outstanding ;-)"
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    I had my reservations. I thought it might be a bit old, a bit flakey.. dare I say a bit passe... HOW WRONG WAS I??
    This has to be one of the best books I have downloaded (and I'm a 26yo man!)The magical imagery really took me somewhere I haven't been for sixteen years.

    7 of 7 people found this review helpful
  • The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 4 mins)
    • By Tammy Bruce
    • Narrated By Tammy Bruce
    Overall
    (3)
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    A woman of contradictions, "a gun-toting, lesbian, feminist, voted-for-Reagan activist", Tammy Bruce is standing in line to become the next Ann Coulter. The "left wing" is engaged in an enormous conspiracy to make moral values relative, to undercut pride and patriotism in our country, to destroy Christian ideology at any cost, to pollute the minds of our youth by means of leftist professors who rewrite history, and to hijack the justice system through morally bankrupt trial lawyers.

    Nicholas says: "Bolshy!"
    "Bolshy!"
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    Yep shes peeved. The American left have wound this woman up something chronic. This book is a catalogue of stories interlinked by the authors insight of what she saw from the inside (as a feminst lesbian activist) of what she describes as the corrupt and morally bankrupt left liberals of America.

    Full of venom and bite, in some ways this book is like a prolonged Daily Mail article. The kind that makes you want to give the world a kick up the behind.

    There is a great deal of sarcastic humour, some of the incidents described made me howl (and cringe) - like the distasteful episode of the college art student who passed his course by defacating infront of an audience (it was art).

    Other stories made my blood boil, with a particularly brutual description of an horrific murder and the black rights activists support of the perpetrator.

    I liked this book. In our morally realtive and religion free times, it is a refreshing stamp of what is right and what went wrong.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Labyrinth

    • UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 32 mins)
    • By Kate Mosse
    • Narrated By Maggie Mash
    Overall
    (607)
    Performance
    (9)
    Story
    (9)

    Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2007.
    Winner of the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year, 2006.

    July 1209: In Carcassonne, a sixteen-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although she cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in protecting it.

    Petra says: "Very disappointing delivery!"
    "Testing"
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    To be honest I am struggling with this. It just seems to go on and on. I wish that it would just get to the point but it creeps around this winding road which (yes confusingly) changes between dirt track and highway.

    Being fair I like the setting in medieval France. The construction of the imagery is impressive. However with another 15 hours to go... I have just purchased another book and am leaving the tales of Alice and Aliece for now.


    1 of 2 people found this review helpful

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