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Zeitoun
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Firdous Bamji
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,420
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 915
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 925
When HurricaneKatrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun - a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four - chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and rescuing those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Something bold, ebullient, yet quiet
- De Darwin8u en 10-08-13
- Zeitoun
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Firdous Bamji
Superb
Revisado: 03-10-10
Eye-opening, exciting, scary, lovely, engrossing. Dave Eggers ("What is the What?") is a phenomenon. Bamji's narration is also super. He has a very slight accent that gives color to his reading without obscuring it.
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Precious
- De: Sapphire
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A True Dose of Reality . . .
- De J. S. en 03-09-10
- Precious
- De: Sapphire
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
Grim Reality
Revisado: 03-10-10
An odd mix for what I listen to audiobooks for: an excellent narration, a well-told story, but a decidedly unpleasant world. Despite the necessity, even responsibility, of being aware of such realities, I didn't like being there.
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Too Much Happiness
- Stories
- De: Alice Munro
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 214
In the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky - a late-19th-century Russian émigré and mathematician - on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Each story should start on its own track
- De Shyguy123 en 01-04-16
- Too Much Happiness
- Stories
- De: Alice Munro
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Arthur Morey
Not Enough Happiness
Revisado: 03-10-10
The narrator does a fine job. She goes on my list of good narrators. I' ve read everything Munro has written, and it seems her plots are in an Arbus-like downward spiral. These stories are grim and depressing. I thought of Flannery O'Connor, but those bizarre stories are cloaked in an amusing demented atmosphere and southern sensibility, and Munro's are addressed as plain reality. Murder, cancer, depravity, on and down. Not fun.
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The Strangest Man
- The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- De: Graham Farmelo
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
- Duración: 19 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 457
Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent biography of great physicist
- De Eileen en 05-09-13
- The Strangest Man
- The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- De: Graham Farmelo
- Narrado por: B. J. Harrison
Mostly good news, a little not
Revisado: 02-08-10
Five stars for the book. Amazing. I'm an artist,not a physicist, but even without fully (or partially) comprehending the science, being exposed to it is a charge. It's that interesting.
Two stars for the narration. Harrison seems unconnected with what he's reading, imparting peculiar inflection and odd emphasis. His voice for Dirac is preposterous. Not going on my "good narrators" list. That said, there are worse, and the content was not ruined, but the whole experience should have been even better.
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Winter's Tale
- De: Mark Helprin
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 27 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 1,103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 846
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 860
One night, Peter Lake - orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-story man - attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven "to stop time and bring back the dead".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book and narrator - bad technical glitch
- De David en 04-11-11
- Winter's Tale
- De: Mark Helprin
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Brilliant reading
Revisado: 07-21-09
Oliver Wyman reads Helprin's book with commitment and apparent pleasure. It's such a treat to listen to him. The writing is filled with glorious similes and metaphors, and the story is wonderful. Oddly, even though Helprin's writing is superlative, it doesn't ring as literature. That's okay.
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Flush
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Prunella Scales
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett. In this charming and heartfelt biography, Viginia Woolf tells his story: his early days as Miss Mitford's puppy running across the fields in wild abandon and fathering another, then the years spent in his invalid mistress' bedroom in Wimpole Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More of Woman's Best Friend
- De Aaron Elliott en 04-23-07
- Flush
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Prunella Scales
Superb on every level
Revisado: 08-21-08
A beautifully written beloved dog story by a world-class author read by a world-class narrator. Just the best.
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Your First Listen
- De: test
- Narrado por: test
- Duración: 4 m
- Grabación Original
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 38,672
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22,042
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 22,170
Your Audible adventures begin right here.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dear Amanda
- De Kerry en 01-21-09
Really funny
Revisado: 07-13-08
Written by Steve Martin, so funny, witty reading. Makes me want to look up more by Martin, same narrator.
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W.B. Yeats
- Poems
- De: William Butler Yeats
- Narrado por: T. P. McKenna
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, a leader of the Irish Renaissance, he dreamed of creating a new cultural identity for his country. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. This compelling collection spans his career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yeats, Music to the Mind and Soul
- De R. Kottke en 05-08-06
- W.B. Yeats
- Poems
- De: William Butler Yeats
- Narrado por: T. P. McKenna
Transporting
Revisado: 07-13-08
Yeats' gorgeous poetry well served by a lovely, intelligent reading.
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Green Mansions
- De: W. H. Hudson
- Narrado por: Walter Zimmerman, Jim Roberts
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
W. H. Hudson was born in 1841 in Buenos Aires and seems to have been a sort of permanently displaced person. He moved to London in 1869 and wrote a series of remarkable books, most with a wilderness setting. In 1904, when he was 63, he focused on an Indian legend for Green Mansions, a memorable romance of the jungle for which he is now chiefly remembered. His epitaph reads, "He Loved Birds and Green Places and the Wind on the Heath, and Saw Brightness of the Skirts of God."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good, escapist story
- De Glenn en 12-09-09
- Green Mansions
- De: W. H. Hudson
- Narrado por: Walter Zimmerman, Jim Roberts
Okay story, disappointing reading.
Revisado: 07-13-08
The story is good enough, but the narrator reads like a telephone robot. It seems he's not engaged in the story and his odd emphases make the listener flinch.
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