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The House of Doors
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 284
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert’s, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings—and the freedom to travel with Gerald.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great, but no “Garden”
- De Susan en 10-30-23
- The House of Doors
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
Always a joy when good writing’s performed by good narrators.
Revisado: 02-05-25
David Oakes and Louise-Mai Newberry are fantastic narrators. Louise-Mai Newberry is especially seductive. What a voice!
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Big Swiss
- A Novel
- De: Jen Beagin
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman, Carlotta Brentan, Stephen Graybill, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 666
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 600
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss.
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5 out of 5 stars
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12/10
- De Leah Fesi en 04-23-23
- Big Swiss
- A Novel
- De: Jen Beagin
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman, Carlotta Brentan, Stephen Graybill, Joy Osmanski, Matt Pittenger
One of the greatest audiobooks of the year.
Revisado: 02-05-25
Superb writing and performances makes this a dynamic audiobook. Really got to know and love Greta and Flavia. Definitely sounds like Rebecca Lowman as the main narrator with a top notch performance.
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
- De: Jennifer Croft
- Narrado por: Lanessa Tremblett
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 33
Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unique plot
- De Kinga en 03-30-24
- The Extinction of Irena Rey
- De: Jennifer Croft
- Narrado por: Lanessa Tremblett
Annoying vocal fry hurts the book.
Revisado: 10-25-24
The book is great but marred by the narrator’s annoying vocal fry at the end of nearly all of her sentences. Hurts the ears after a while and scratches the mind. It sounds like the narrator just woke up from a long snooze. She could have been directed not to that as she has a pleasant tone and not a bad delivery otherwise. This book deserves to be re-recorded with more meticulous direction.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,537
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,953
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,952
In 1937, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight", For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't "Clean Up" Hemingway
- De John W. Aldis, MD en 08-13-09
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
Campbell Scott is the perfect narrator for this incredible book.
Revisado: 10-07-24
Scotts perfect nuanced performance and understanding of the depth of each character makes this one of the top ten best audiobooks available. Hemingway would have liked this audio.
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The Country Girls
- De: Edna O'Brien
- Narrado por: Edna O'Brien
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world - of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin – where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where have all the romantics gone?
- De Cynthia en 07-06-13
- The Country Girls
- De: Edna O'Brien
- Narrado por: Edna O'Brien
Great story marred by noisy breaths.
Revisado: 10-24-23
The story is of course great. The narration would be more listenable if it wasn’t for the distracting and annoying mouth noises on the breath intakes especially with such a sensitive piece of literature as this. If those were edited out it would be a good listen as Ms O’Brien has a pleasant voice. Otherwise authors narrating their own fiction need guidance to bring them up to the same level as professionals.
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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
- De: James Hannaham
- Narrado por: James Hannaham, Flame Monroe
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn—before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story and narration.
- De Audio en 12-15-22
Great story and narration.
Revisado: 12-15-22
Nothing beats good writing and great narration. The plight of Carlotta totally enthralls. Will be listening again as gritty as it gets sometimes but the joy, humor and charm of the story and performances completely compensate.
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Dance of the Infidels
- De: Wesley Brown
- Narrado por: Wesley Brown
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
This long-awaited story collection from Wesley Brown summons up the smoky clubs and gritty streets of a long-gone New York City, one that moved in the frenetic rhythms of jazz. A more innocent city fueled by cool, not money. We meet Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Cab Calloway, and many giants of the era in these sharply observed, carefully intertwined stories. In Brown's deft hands, these legends become real - like we've never seen them before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Womderful Read
- De Joyce en 10-10-17
- Dance of the Infidels
- De: Wesley Brown
- Narrado por: Wesley Brown
Great Jazz Writing
Revisado: 09-25-17
The author reads with authenticity, creativity and passion like the jazz solos he writes about. If you want to get to know Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz greats intimately like friends this audio is a good place to start.
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