Category Archives: Audio Books

Review: Life, Keith Richards

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

The Blurb With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, … Continue reading →

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The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson

Posted on February 20, 2011 by

This is the second of the Millennium trilogy books by Stieg Larsson. I read the first – The girl with the dragon tattoo – last year – this time I downloaded an un abridged audiobook from a library. In this … Continue reading →

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The Complaints, Ian Rankin

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

I listened to the Audiobook version of this book narrated by Peter Forbes. He did an excellent job. I’ve generally been impressed by the readers of the audiobooks I have listened to – the free librivox ones aren’t in the … Continue reading →

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Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand, Fred Vagras

Posted on November 13, 2010 by

Another audio book. This time was different, I have read a couple of these books before so the characters already had voices. It didn’t take too long to accept the voices on this recording. It was well read and they … Continue reading →

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Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

This was another Audio Book (unabridged). I got it from Douglas Library and the first evening I got it home my youngest daughter got hold of it. She put all ten disks into her little CD player and jammed the … Continue reading →

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The Middle Temple Murder, J S Fletcher

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

Another Audio book . This one was a free download from Libravox via Guttenberg. It was OK. The reading got a bit bad towards the end. Some of the readers stumbled over entire paragraphs without stopping th etape and starting … Continue reading →

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Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, Steve Martin

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

I didn’t read this book I got an unabridged CD from the library and listened to it. I listen to audio books when I cycle so I can still hear the traffic. This one was read by Steve Martin- so … Continue reading →

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