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The Great Train Robbery
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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The Great Train Robbery
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Publisher's Summary
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite - yet nonetheless explosive....
Michael Crichton wrote and directed the screen adaptation of The Great Train Robbery, starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland.
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- Shannon
- 10-05-2024
Like Ocean's 11 but grimier
Excellently paced book with very distinct and fascinating characters. The setting of Victorian England is very palpable and truly horrid. I wish the prostitution scene had been like the movie but unfortunately not! I really liked the small explanations here and there about how the society was at the time so you can understand systems and beliefs we do not have anymore, or vice versa, such as how dynamite was not invented yet so they couldn't blow up the safe. I think I prefer this book to Jurrassic Park, it has more flow. It's almost like light entertainment and then something vile happens and it hits you how utterly utterly awful life was back then for everyone excepting rich, titled, well bred males, and you then sympathize with the characters more. 10/10 read this, I don't care what your preferred genre is, this is so fun and interesting.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-08-2024
splendid listen
thumbs up, dam there is a 15 word review minimum. It looks like I've made it now. Jolly good then
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-07-2020
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Fascinating book. Very easy listen. Great insight and engaging story of people, a robbery and Victorian London
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- james heyblom
- 19-11-2020
A jolly good romp
Excellent delivery on an engaging and fun story. The best audible I have listened to so far
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- vinny
- 14-03-2019
good listen
english 8s my 2nd language, this was a little hard to understand at times but great book overall
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- Bhavik
- 26-07-2022
Tedious
The story lacked content. It was hard to comprehend the language. Story was too long and it kept going off in tangent
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- Todd
- 20-07-2016
A good read, but suffers from an identity crisis
Within The Great Train Robbery there lies a brilliant, engaging story about what must be one of history's greatest heists. However this story is at times relegated to the background and we are instead given a history lesson on Victorian culture. Because of this, the book doesn't know whether it wants to be a novel or a history reference, and the story suffers.
When the story does come to the fore, it is a very fun listen. Details of the setup of the heist and the heist itself are engaging and almost too fantastic to believe. The narration is ok. I agree with some other reviewers that the narrator speaks haltingly at times, but once you grow accustomed to his pace, it doesn't detract from the experience.
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