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On the Java Ridge
- De: Jock Serong
- Narrado por: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
In Canberra, a federal election looms and Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, is facing a new hard-line policy regarding asylum-seekers. Off the Indonesian island of Dana, Isi Natoli, skipper of the Java Ridge, and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. A few kilometres away, Roya and her mother are amongst the passengers fleeing persecution aboard the Talakar. When a storm breaks, these stories collide with chilling consequences....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible waste of precious credit
- De Franciska Bujdos en 11-06-19
- On the Java Ridge
- De: Jock Serong
- Narrado por: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Terrible waste of precious credit
Revisado: 11-06-19
I found the story reviews intriguing so I have bought the book, but now I wish I hadn't. The plot is unbearably dull and predictable, the characters two-dimensional (if that).
What made me struggle through half of it is the narrator - he did an amazing job of a book way unworthy of his talents.
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The Poisonwood Bible
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Dean Robertson
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,583
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,216
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Listen to the sample first!
- De Cheryl D en 07-30-08
- The Poisonwood Bible
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Dean Robertson
Mesmerizing story, careless narration
Revisado: 11-02-19
I have always been fascinated by stories that take me to different continents, and different times, by fiction set in historical past. The Poisonwood bible does just that and more: by magic it made the Congo and the Price family appear before my eyes, with all the tragedy, humour, beauty and hardship that entwine their lives. I found it absolutely amazing.
But to tell the entire truth: I almost gave up after a few minutes because of the narrator. The narrator's speed of reading the book is so fast that I first thought I accidentally sped up my audible app to 2X the normal speed. But no - that was the normal pace... It's like she was given the instruction to finish 500+ pages in under two hours. Hardly a breathtake ever. Eventually I set the speed to 0,75, that sounded more like the tempo of normal speech. Pity because the book is almost like poetry -the sentences, the words would have deserved a more careful, loving handling in my opinion.
I think I will re-read this book later, but this time I will not listen - despite being a huge audiobook fan - but read it at my own pace.
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