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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- De: Eleanor Janega
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to create a more equitable future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Get a Rosalie Gilbert book instead
- De Jennifer Martin en 07-11-23
- The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- De: Eleanor Janega
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
Learned a lot. Enjoyed doing it
Revisado: 09-01-24
Well structured. Well researched. Well written. None of this was covered in the medieval history curriculum at school! Excellent narration.
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Foundation and Earth
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 18 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,903
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3,550
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,538
Golan Trevize, former councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all - and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Please please re-record with Scott Brick!!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-12-12
- Foundation and Earth
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
Narrator ruins book
Revisado: 06-30-18
This is an interesting book. No-one goes to Asimov for delicate, layered storytelling but this story contains some interesting and often (for the time) remarkably liberal concepts. Two key issues raised are gender identity and the stultifying impact of slave labour on a society.
The central concept, the continuing need to question choices already made, was central to Iain M Banks' work. So considering this was the fifth book in a series that began publication in 1941, it was innovative and forward thinking.
So, it was a real shame that the publishers chose a toneless robot to read the story. His tone sucks all life out of the conversations that Asimov used to move the story along. There is no variation to distinguish between characters. There is certainly no passion.
If you want to listen to someone read an Ikea instruction sheet, Larry McKeever is the man for the job. He was a terrible choice for a novel with multiple characters who demonstrated passion in their arguments for and against the thematic issues discussed in the story.
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HELP
- De: Simon Amstell
- Narrado por: Simon Amstell
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Comedy, Tragedy, Therapy. Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of 13. His parents had just divorced, and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. Read by Simon Amstell, and interspersed with footage from his stand-up tours, HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon's ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self onstage. To tell the truth so it can't hurt him anymore. Loneliness, anxiety, depression - this book has it all. And more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super Enjoyable
- De lauren en 11-26-17
- HELP
- De: Simon Amstell
- Narrado por: Simon Amstell
Wonderful!
Revisado: 10-07-17
I am normally a bit reticent about autobiographies but thoughtI’d give this a go as it has had such wonderful reviews. They are all deserved. This is a lovely book and beautifully read with extracts from live shows cut in.
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Judas Unchained
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 40 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,646
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,090
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,107
Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy.The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptionally great book
- De Susan en 02-09-09
- Judas Unchained
- De: Peter F. Hamilton
- Narrado por: John Lee
Entertainment survived the reading
Revisado: 11-14-11
Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained tell a fantastic story involving dozens of characters and take place over several years in a volume of space several hundred light years in diameter. Peter F Hamilton spins an enthralling yarn that manages to combine high speed rail with an inter-stellar civilisation, an alien invasion, a police investigation and complex politics.
Unfortunately, the reading doesn't do justice to the text. John Lee is good but it was always going to be a very hard job to have one man read all those characters with all those accents for a story that runs over 80 hours between the two books. Accents aren't always consistent across characters and there's one Welsh character who seemed to have grown up in the sub-continent at first, before moving northwest to Cardiff. It's also jarring to have the narration portions of the text read in an English accent with occassional American pronunciations.
Frankly, this is a story that deserved a theatrical reading by a cast rather than just one man. Nonetheless, the story is strong enough to survive the variable narration quality and still be entertaining.
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