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Me of Little Faith
- More Me! Less Faith!
- De: Lewis Black
- Narrado por: Lewis Black
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 668
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 438
What do we believe? And in God's name why? Lewis Black has the answers. Or at least his answers. He survived Hebrew school and a bar mitzvah (barely), was a 60's college student who saw the parallels between religious rapture and drug-induced visions (even if none of his friends did), explored the self-actualization movement of the 70's (and the self-indulgence it engendered), and turned a cynical eye toward politicians who don the cloak of religious rectitude to cover up their own hypocrisy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great read
- De Sarda en 04-18-09
- Me of Little Faith
- More Me! Less Faith!
- De: Lewis Black
- Narrado por: Lewis Black
Variable
Revisado: 12-22-09
Black's customary energy and anger come through. He has moments in which he displays some of the angry humor that is so effective politically. But, ultimately, he's a man of more than a little faith. Like Mulder on the X-Files, he -wants- to believe, and he's coming up with justifications. Gullible ones. Really, if Lewis Black were reviewing his own book, he'd savage himself, particularly on the astrology and psychic sections.
On the other hand, there are genuine moments of hilarity and insight in here.
As a skeptic/non-believer who usually likes Black, I was disappointed - not because I disagreed with him, but because he just couldn't maintain any intellectual consistency. I'd expect more from him. But there were moments of entertainment, and I've had worse 5 hour blocks of my life while driving in the winter.
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Bleeding Hearts
- Jack Harvey, Book 2
- De: Ian Rankin
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
The death of a TV reporter from a single bullet wound to the heart is a dramatic news story, and also an unsolved crime. But the twist in the tale is that this time it's the man who fired the bullet who's asking all the questions. Michael Watson wants to know how come the police were on his tail so quickly. And who wanted the journalist permanently out of the picture? His first task is to find the writer of his pay cheque; the second is to make sure he doesn't get caught.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A twist in the tale
- De Alison en 04-10-07
- Bleeding Hearts
- Jack Harvey, Book 2
- De: Ian Rankin
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
Outstanding reader, good book
Revisado: 05-27-06
Very different from the Rebus novels. The characters are a little cliched but not disturbingly so, and there is a wry sense of humor that threads its way throughout the book.
The reader is FANTASTIC.
Several "driveway moments" with this book where I had to sit for a few minutes to see what happened next. Took a little time to get going, but then I was hooked.
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Remains Silent
- A Novel
- De: Dr. Michael M. Baden, Linda Kenney
- Narrado por: Michele Santopietro
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
Philomena “Manny” Manfreda is a crusading attorney for the disenfranchised. Five years out of law school, with an apartment not much bigger than one of her beloved Prada shoe boxes and a burgeoning reputation as one of the city’s fiercest litigators, Manny is an unabashed shopaholic who changes her hair color weekly, carries her poodle, Mycroft, everywhere, and whose idea of therapy is the preparation of an eight-course Italian meal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could have been better
- De Nancy en 09-06-05
- Remains Silent
- A Novel
- De: Dr. Michael M. Baden, Linda Kenney
- Narrado por: Michele Santopietro
Cheetos for the mind
Revisado: 04-14-06
Had high hopes for the forensics - but just too formulaic to engage me. Protagonist is rather obsessed with designer shoes/clothes and just too precious for words; this works in "The Ivy Chronicles" as character development, but here it is just annoying and shallow. (Hint: lists of clothing and shoes tell us more about the character of the author than they do the protagonist.) The stock characters are all here: the scruffy ME, the sweet old farm couple, the evil developer, the corrupt sheriff, the ambitious attorney, the drag queen sidekick, the secret government conspiracies...
I finished it as it was the only book on my player that day, but I felt a little guilty.
The interview with the authors at the end was more interesting than the book, actually.
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