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The Monkey's Raincoat
- Cole & Pike, Book 1
- Narrated by: Patrick G. Lawler
- Series: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Nahid hajialikhani
- 13-08-20
Bad narrator
What a horrible narrator. Spoiled the book completely. The book reviews were good I didn’t listen to sample before buying the book.
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- Spider-Punk
- 16-04-19
Poor quality recording
Liked the story once the I got used to the narrators horrible voice. Sound quality in general is like I recorded a vinyl edition of the book onto a worn out cassette. Dreadful sound.
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- gary
- 30-11-21
Awful narration
This is one of my favourite ever novels. I am an avid fan of the whole series. The narrator is awful. Too much 'he said. She said'. I lasted 10 minutes.
Buy the book people, don't have it spoiled for you.
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- Nathan
- 16-04-17
Good book.
Not quite the same feel as some of crais books. Still a good listen though, interesting story. Not hugely keen on the narrator.
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- Nina R
- 28-02-21
Overly descriptive
I have not really got in to this book, I found it’s to be overly descriptive that I couldn’t concentrate on it enough to keep listening.
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- George A Bear
- 12-10-17
good story but a little dated.
I am new to the author Robert Crais, although he has been writing for years. after reading a recent book I decided to go back to the first in the series. This is a good story but a little dated, hence 4 stars.
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- Benjamin
- 26-04-16
Stay with it, slow start leads to much more
Keep going, that's the way forward. Great story, the first of many. Ignore the negative reviews, they obviously have no patience!
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- Mike
- 15-04-15
Gave up before the end of chapter one
I bought this because I'd enjoyed Crais' "Suspect". This book is much earlier. I found the writing slow and clichéd and the narration uninspired.. I tried hard to make it to the end of the first chapter but my interest and patience were snuffed out long before then
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- twiggs
- 22-03-16
Could not hold my attention
struggled for a few hours and gave up really did not like it and returned it