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The Magician
- A Novel
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 963
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 835
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 829
The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the 20th century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific listening experience
- De M. Mead en 09-17-21
- The Magician
- A Novel
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
Most brilliant and wonderful book
Revisado: 06-28-22
Beautifully read and most fascinating and well written story of Thomas Mann’s extraordinary life. His rendition of Mann’s family life, literary career and war time experience are poignant and alive with detail. I listened to it non stop over a very short period.
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The Fortune Men
- A Novel
- De: Nadifa Mohamed
- Narrado por: Hugh Quarshie
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer. He is a father of three, secure in his innocence and his belief in British justice. But as the trial draws closer, his prospect for freedom dwindles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragedy in Cardiff
- De David en 05-13-22
- The Fortune Men
- A Novel
- De: Nadifa Mohamed
- Narrado por: Hugh Quarshie
Really poor accents
Revisado: 03-04-22
The narrator was unable to capture the various accents of the characters. For example the Jewish character accents were completely wrong. They sounded a bit Irish. The Jamaican and other accents too. It was so bad I couldn’t listen to more than the quarter. Audible should ensure that narrators know the correct spoken accents of characters appropriate to the time periods in which they lived, as set out in the novel.
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The Conductor
- De: Sarah Quigley
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in Russian history, the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to prepare for the task of a lifetime. He is to conduct a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, a haunting, defiant new piece.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad days in Leningrad
- De Anonymous User en 06-30-19
- The Conductor
- De: Sarah Quigley
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
Sad days in Leningrad
Revisado: 06-30-19
This beautifully narrated story, set in Leningrad during the siege in 1941 is a moving story of a conductor and of Shostakovich living in the increasingly dangerous and bombarded city of Leningrad, surrounded by the Nazis. Day by day conditions deteriorate, but despite this, the conductor pulls together the half starved orchestra to perform the 7th Symphony which Shostakovich writes while the city is under siege. The conductor's transition through the book to a character of such strength and honour, and the love story woven in, makes it a moving tribute to both the composer but also the very special conductor.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,292
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,240
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,215
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
Sad, funny indictiment on war
Revisado: 06-30-19
In his droll voice, James Franco captures the mood of Vonnegut. Half playful, absurd, funny and overwhelmingly sad and tragic. An amazing indictment of war, which is as relevant today as it was then. Remarkable account and rendition.
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Let It Come Down
- De: Paul Bowles
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable novel that has to be read
- De Anonymous User en 05-14-19
- Let It Come Down
- De: Paul Bowles
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
A remarkable novel that has to be read
Revisado: 05-14-19
Paul Bowles has such a range of expression that frequently reaches perfection. The story is compelling and at times absurdly funny - including drug drenched sex, the mannerisms of the colonials living in the international zone of Tangiers before 1952, and the main character's flaws, which are sometimes completely astounding. The narration is superlative and completely authentic. I would highly recommend it.
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