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Tai-Pan
- The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 2
- De: James Clavell
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 32 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,165
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,814
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,789
Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stellar Performance
- De Jason en 07-26-16
- Tai-Pan
- The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 2
- De: James Clavell
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
Sad that it ended
Revisado: 04-21-25
I wish this book could have gone on and on. Riveting.
Plus the narrator couldn't have been better - especially since the nationalities of the characters varied so widely - Portuguese, Chinese, Scottish, English, American, Irish. Amazing
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Murder in Belleville
- De: Cara Black
- Narrado por: Carine Montbertrand
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretty bad
- De billybudd22 en 01-22-19
- Murder in Belleville
- De: Cara Black
- Narrado por: Carine Montbertrand
Pretty bad
Revisado: 01-22-19
It seems the narrator of this book was picked for her ability to over-emote French words, locations and names, not for her narrative abilities. I found listening to her grating.
Regarding the story, it was too confusing trying to keep track of all the Muslim factions swirling around an immigrant standoff in a church, combined with the double-dealing between relatives of an activist cleric and corrupt politicians.
And finally, somehow the author thinks the heroine's weakness for bad boys isn't a hackneyed plot device? I mean, even in tense situations, when the heroine's cell phone rings, her first thought is - Can it be Yves? And this is a guy who she apparently doesn't know very well, hadn't seen in quite awhile, yet has a key to her apartment and comes and goes whenever he pleases? Really?
Overall, I really wanted to like this series given its premise of a private detective living and working in Paris. I was sadly disappointed.
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