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Maigret à New York
- Commissaire Maigret
- De: Georges Simenon
- Narrado por: Marc Moro
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Versión resumida
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Maigret est tiré de sa retraite, à Meung-sur-Loire, par un très jeune homme qu'accompagne un vieux notaire de famille ; Jean Maura est inquiet au sujet de son père, important homme d'affaire qui habite New York : ses lettres, toujours d'une grande affection, le montrent angoissé depuis quelque temps. Maigret accepte d'accompagner Jean Maura à New York. Au moment de débarquer, Jean Maura disparaît inexplicablement.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maigret a New York -- be careful -- abridged
- De David Frank en 04-20-23
- Maigret à New York
- Commissaire Maigret
- De: Georges Simenon
- Narrado por: Marc Moro
Maigret a New York -- be careful -- abridged
Revisado: 04-20-23
This audiobook was abridged. I'm not sure why you'd choose to abridge a book that runs slightly more than 100 pages. Moreover, the gratuitous use of unflattering (French) accents when New Yorkers speak is annoying. Simenon actually lived in the US for a time. Certainly Americans have an accent, but this is too much. Not a fan, and I'm not sure Simenon would be, either.
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Le chien jaune
- De: Georges Simenon
- Narrado por: Bruno Solo
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
Des notables peu recommandables... À Concarneau, des faits troublants mettent la ville en émoi. On tente d'assassiner M. Mostaguen, au sortir de sa partie de cartes quotidienne à l'Hôtel de l'Amiral. Le sort s'acharne sur ses partenaires, car, deux jours après l'arrivée de Maigret, Jean Servières, rédacteur au Phare de Brest, disparaît ; le siège avant de sa voiture est maculé de sang. M. Le Pommeret meurt chez lui, empoisonné. Le docteur Michoux pense être le suivant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Maigret
- De David Frank en 04-20-23
- Le chien jaune
- De: Georges Simenon
- Narrado por: Bruno Solo
Classic Maigret
Revisado: 04-20-23
Le Chien Jaune is an early Simenon/Maigret - the larger than life Maigret, the emphatic Maigret. It is a mystery of betrayal and revenge in a provincial town where an unscrupulous clique of high-heeled boys rules, but whose mutual luck is just starting to unravel. Le Chien Jaune -- the yellow dog -- a large, fearless breed -- seems to appear after criminal attacks, and becomes an omen for the ignorant.
Simenon is a superb writer. His prose is spare and taut. The ending - Maigret gathering all the parties in the courtyard of a citadel for cross examination - is classic - please note that this novel predates Christie's, Murder on the Orient Express, by three years. The narrator has wonderful pronunciation. It is unabridged.
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The System
- Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- De: Robert B. Reich
- Narrado por: Robert B. Reich
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,094
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 931
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 917
Millions of Americans have lost confidence in our political and economic system. After years of stagnant wages, volatile job markets, and an unwillingness by those in power to deal with profound threats such as climate change, there is a mounting sense that the system is fixed, serving only those select few with enough money to secure a controlling stake. With the characteristic clarity and passion that has made him a central civil voice, Robert B. Reich shows how wealth and power have interacted to install an elite oligarchy, eviscerate the middle class, and undermine democracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Turn Off Your TV. Wake Up and Listen Now!
- De Benchmark en 03-25-20
- The System
- Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- De: Robert B. Reich
- Narrado por: Robert B. Reich
The meritocracy
Revisado: 07-28-20
This is a fine book. Prof. Reich points out in more detail than I could how the plutocracy - he calls it the oligarchy - have given the “playing field” a nice tilt, to benefit the well born. The drawback is that Mr. Reich doesn’t cover how the system we have - the system that made him an important person - tends to lead to precisely what he deplores.
Reich favors a meritocracy - one that hasn’t been co-opted by the plutocracy - rigged - something he also points out in great detail. If only the oligarchy could be stopped from rigging the meritocracy!. The problem is, he is chasing a chimera.. Oligarchy and meritocracy are two phases of same thing.
Reich decries those who receive most of what they have got as passive earnings, and the system does favor certain asset types , inheritances and intellectual property, which Reich enumerates as two of four roads to great wealth (the other two being forms of cheating - insider knowledge and monopoly). The road to wealth that I believe Reich finds most unpalatable, besides outright cheating, is inheritance. I would expect this from a blind believer in meritocracy.
Meritocracy rewards virtue, and has always rewarded virtue. Heirs get theirs from ancestors, back in history. This ancestors guilty of tilting our meritocratic system were, of necessity, winners in that very meritocracy. Aces of the meritocracy.. There is a phase change when the meritocratic ace’s offspring inherit his or her fortune, but the ace’s fortune is an expected outcome of the meritocracy.
That meritocracy begets oligarchy seems unremarkable to me. Reich’s problem then is his blindness to this. If oligarchy is a problem, the solution certainly cannot be meritocracy.
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