Mike Vendetti has narrated 44 audiobooks on Listento.it by 31 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is The Sound of Things Falling.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Summary
"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die". A lament of airman, soldier, sailor, and marine throughout history from Lord Tennyson's 1854 poem based upon a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. British commander Lord Raglan had intended to send the Light Brigade to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions, a task for which the light cavalry were well-suited. However, there was miscommunication in the chain of command, and the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery, one well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. The Light Brigade reached the battery under withering direct fire and scattered some of the gunners, but they were forced to retreat immediately, and the assault ended with very high British casualties and no decisive gains.
Public Domain (P)2019 Mike Vendetti
Faery Lands of the South Seas
Summary
Faery Lands of the South Seas, by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff, read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti. Returning from the horrors of World War I, James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later coauthored Mutiny on the Bounty. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one. This story just went into the public domain, so enjoy an early 20th-century look at paradise.
Public Domain (P)2018 Mike Vendetti
The Great Gatsby
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Three professional narrators, Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin, and Stephen Jay Cohen, lend their voices to what is considered by many to be one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby. Travel back with them to the Jazz Age, where the wealthy and entitled collide with pretenders and common citizens. Where "careless people smash up things and creatures and then retreat back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it is that keeps them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made".
Public Domain (P)2021 Mike Vendetti
The Hollow Men
Summary
Immerse yourself in T.S. Eliot's thought-provoking poem as award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "The Hollow Men". "This is the way the world ends", T. S. Eliot tells us at the end of his 1925 poem, "The Hollow Men": "not with a bang but a whimper".
Public Domain (P)2021 Mike Vendetti