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The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- De: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
- Narrado por: Blake Ritson, John Hurt, David Warner, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 50 m
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Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dante's epic poem. Inferno: Thirty-five year old Dante finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. Hope of rescue appears in the form of the venerable poet Virgil, now a shade himself, who offers to lead Dante on an odyssey through the afterlife, beginning in the terrifying depths of Hell.
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Revisiting the land of the dead
- De Adeliese Baumann en 10-21-16
- The Divine Comedy
- Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso
- De: Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt
- Narrado por: Blake Ritson, John Hurt, David Warner, Hattie Morahan, Full Cast
Really great…
Revisado: 10-17-23
Wonderful performances in this very good encapsulation of the long and complex Divine Comedy. Also: a Foley artist’s dream; hope you like sound effects! (Squish)
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Tidings
- The Absolutely True Story of Christmas (as Far as I Know)
- De: DJ O'Toole
- Narrado por: Stefan Cordova
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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Joseph has been captured by soldiers. A pregnant Mary is being hunted by the king. She needs to escape Nazareth but doesn’t know how. Three hard-drinking strangers claim they can help, but she isn’t sure she can trust them. Oh, and let’s not forget that the baby daddy is God, The God, The Great "I Am". She’s had better days. Herod the Great has been king of Judaea for 30 years. He is losing his sanity to a disease. He learns shepherds are being visited by angels, bringing tidings of comfort and joy. What the hell are tidings?
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So…what are tidings, anyway?
- De Jenny en 12-13-22
- Tidings
- The Absolutely True Story of Christmas (as Far as I Know)
- De: DJ O'Toole
- Narrado por: Stefan Cordova
So…what are tidings, anyway?
Revisado: 12-13-22
Tidings is an creative and hilarious re-imagining of the Christmas story told in modern language (including a healthy dose of profanity). Imagine the humor of Mel Brooks applied to the story of the birth of Jesus, and that’s what you have here—and it’s wonderful. I agree with the author that it’s possible to tell this story with humor (and a near-Tarantino number of F-bombs) and still be respectful. In that way I view Tidings to be in the same vein as The Righteous Gemstones—there’s a lot of humor to be gleaned from religion, but the sincere religious faith at the story’s core is never, ever the butt of the joke.
I took a Bible as Literature class in undergrad, and our teacher started the first day of class by declaring that “the Bible is f***ing cool!” A few people dropped the class after that, but those of us who were left were in for quite a treat in studying the universal, timeless stories of the New and Old Testaments (and apocrypha) for their literary merit, regardless of the teacher’s or students’ religious beliefs. Tidings embodies my teacher’s opening declaration from that class—this is a cool story, and it’s told in a very cool way here.
Re: the audiobook—as I wrote in my review of The Pole Vault Championship this summer, while I’m sure reading Tidings in hard copy/Kindle format is great, the Audible edition takes this book to another level. The narrator is beyond talented, effortlessly performing dozens of distinct voices and accents for the characters. Even the most minor, unnamed characters get their own voices, and I don’t think any of them are ever repeated. (I should have kept count…) It’s astonishing, given that it’s a single actor performing all of these roles.
All that is to say, Tidings (what are tidings, anyway?) was a very fun addition to my holiday season this year.
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The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe
- De: Conor Lastowka
- Narrado por: Eliza Skinner, Janet Varney, Al Yankovic, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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Kara Everglades has just finished her first year of high school and is longing for an adventure. So far, her only option is an invitation from some upperclassmen to watch them race a bunch of bullfrogs in a ditch. Her grandfather, Cornelius Everglades, is a family legend (and a loose cannon), who founded his own island micronation. Unfortunately, the rest of the world refuses to acknowledge it. When Cornelius shows up at Kara’s door needing her help and promising an adventure, Kara agrees to go along with his far-fetched plan.
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Highly entertaining, great listen
- De Leslie Braitsch en 01-17-19
Delightful! A deep bench of talented actors, too.
Revisado: 07-16-22
This is such a fantastically fun production, with great source material and an embarrassment of riches in voice talent (while I love the Rifftrax/MST3K guys, I think my favorite performance here may have been the perfectly cast John DiMaggio a/k/a Bender on Futurama as the “King” of Maui.)
I’m sure I’ll be re-listening again soon. It has to be among the best productions available on Audible.
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