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Carry On
- De: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great narration
- De Christina en 08-31-17
- Carry On
- De: Rainbow Rowell
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
Great narration
Revisado: 08-31-17
This book was a lot of fun. The twists and turns if the plot were a little *too* foregrounded, removing the element of surprise. But the characters were endearing and very well fleshed out, and I bought the romance wholesale. The re-imagining of chosen one narratives was fresh and enjoyable.
The brilliant narrator really gave each character a unique voice, which I wouldn't necessarily have done in my head if I read the text.
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- De: Dominic Smith
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the story's told. In this extraordinary audiobook, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Distracting appauling "Australian" accent.
- De Caroline en 11-12-16
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- De: Dominic Smith
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
Great book
Revisado: 05-21-17
A beautiful book, but the narrator really should not have attempted an Australian accent. As an Australian myself I guessed the character was South African, and was halfway in to the book before the frequent allusions to Sydney sunk in. Once I realised the accent was *supposed* to be Australian it grated for the rest of the book, ruining the sense of place for the parts set in Australia. I would have preferred that the narrator didn't even attempt the accent. If you're Australian, maybe read this one on paper/ebook and skip the audio.
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Marriage, a History
- How Love Conquered Marriage
- De: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is - and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the 19th century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Marriage from a secular feminist's perspective
- De Timothy Hanline en 12-23-19
- Marriage, a History
- How Love Conquered Marriage
- De: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
Fascinating exploration of an ancient institution
Revisado: 03-07-17
This book is fascinating. I did find that last third or so less interesting, as it moved into theorizing about modern marriage. The narration was excellent, except for the narrator's irritating tendency to say "newkiller family".
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The Girl on the Train
- De: Paula Hawkins
- Narrado por: India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,570
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,434
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,428
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Claudia en 04-14-15
- The Girl on the Train
- De: Paula Hawkins
- Narrado por: India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
Great story, excellent narration
Revisado: 12-07-16
Where does The Girl on the Train rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This was excellent as an audiobook. The three narrators did a superb job of bringing the characters to life, and the slow, chilling unraveling of the mystery was first rate.
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,056
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,497
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
- Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
- Narrado por: Stephanie Daniel
Poor narration
Revisado: 03-07-12
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I enjoyed the novel overall. Phryne was a little too two-dimensionally goddess-like for me to really sympathise with the character (surely she has SOME flaws?). I do feel, however, as if I would have enjoyed the content of the story much more if I hadn't found the narration so irritating and had been able to focus more on the plot.
Would you recommend Cocaine Blues to your friends? Why or why not?
In this case I would recommend reading the ebook as a fun, lighthearted mystery novel, but recommend against the audio version! This is a shame because I do love audio books as a medium.
What didn’t you like about Stephanie Daniel’s performance?
Stephanie Daniel's narration had two major drawbacks for me:
Firstly, she was simply a bad casting choice, as the novel's protagonist and tone are young and vibrant, and her voice made every character and the tone of the novel sound middle-aged.
Secondly, she uses a frustrating
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