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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9,011
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,033
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8,029
Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How Did This Escape Me?
- De E. Pearson en 11-23-11
- Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
Perfect Marriage ...
Revisado: 09-21-15
...of novel and narrator. I won't review the novel here because I've nothing to add that hasn't been said before about this master work. The narration is somthing that, in a third-person limited point of view, can make or break even the greatest of novels. Joe Morton gives a splendid performance that captures the character of the unnamed narrator to perfection. He manages to add a dimension of humanity to the narrator. You can tell Mr. Morton was having fun flexing his acting muscles.
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- De: Alfred Lansing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 26,258
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23,258
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23,217
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've had
- De Thomas Allen en 09-17-08
- Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- De: Alfred Lansing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
Exceptional
Revisado: 09-11-15
The story, quality of writing, and narration were all simply extraordinary. I can't recall a better fit between narrator and prose for a work of non fiction.
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Into the Silence
- The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
- De: Wade Davis
- Narrado por: Enn Reitel
- Duración: 28 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 412
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather.
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4 out of 5 stars
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He wrote exquisite Eel-agies?
- De Florence en 11-29-12
- Into the Silence
- The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
- De: Wade Davis
- Narrado por: Enn Reitel
One of the greatest narrations ever
Revisado: 07-21-15
Enn Reitel's performance is spectacular. It takes a good story and brings it to life. His delivery adds gravitas.
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Bleeding Edge
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Jeannie Berlin
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 236
Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics - carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people's bank accounts - without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom - two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst - till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A fine wine in a dirty and cracked glass
- De Robert S. en 09-18-13
- Bleeding Edge
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Jeannie Berlin
The Bleeding Ear
Revisado: 04-21-15
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
It's not the book, it's the horrid narration. It took me several attempts just to get past the first chapter.
What other book might you compare Bleeding Edge to and why?
The metal-on-metal screeching of a train derailing.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jeannie Berlin?
Jar Jar Binks would have been an improvement.
Any additional comments?
Pynchon is a fine author. His prose is special. This narrator manages to hold a pillow over the face of Pynchon's humor and smother it to death.
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The Goldfinch
- De: Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 32 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,725
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37,616
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37,571
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boy, am I in the minority on this one.
- De Bon Ami en 11-04-13
- The Goldfinch
- De: Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: David Pittu
Excellent writing. Excellent narration
Revisado: 04-05-15
The author, Tartt, develops interesting and flawed characters you care about, develops them masterfully, and tortures them in fascinating ways. Stellar writing.
The narrator of the audio version, David Pittu, is a matter actor who breathes life into the universe Tartt has created. Both of them have a new fan.
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