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The Seven Storey Mountain
- De: Thomas Merton
- Narrado por: Sidney Lanier
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,255
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,246
The Seven Storey Mountain is the extraordinary spiritual testament of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. By the end of his life, he had become one of the 20th century's best-known and beloved Christian voices. This autobiography deals...not with what happens to a man, but what happens inside his soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Letter to Audible
- De Victoria A. McCargar en 08-06-17
- The Seven Storey Mountain
- De: Thomas Merton
- Narrado por: Sidney Lanier
What a superb book!
Revisado: 05-13-20
I read it while I was a child; my parents made sure we kids got our hands on everything we could grasp—even the books they definitely got for themselves
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Confessions
- A New Translation
- De: Saint Augustine, Jack Miles - foreward, Peter Constantine - translator
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
This long-awaited translation of Confessions, which Stephen Greenblatt describes as central to the legacy of Adam and Eve, enlivens the beguiling world of late antiquity. No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having listened to Augustine’s Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf to Gertrude Stein.
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3 out of 5 stars
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SERIOUS Problems in the Constantine work
- De William Powers en 07-05-18
- Confessions
- A New Translation
- De: Saint Augustine, Jack Miles - foreward, Peter Constantine - translator
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
SERIOUS Problems in the Constantine work
Revisado: 07-05-18
I expected considerably more from the Audible version of Augustine's 'Confessions' was able to deliver, especially since this was my first experience within the audible genre--if that's the right term. The Content, Augustine's actual work, is of course terrific--but the Form in which it gets to the reader is awful.
One problem is caused by the frequent interruptions with the reading of the text. Book 1 for instance has 20 Chapters, and 31 Paragraphs--and the narrator/reader stops after every paragraph (that's 31 interruptions in about an hour) to announce the 'progress' of the classic. There can't be a rhythm to the reading with in onslaught of trivial information.
A more serious problem lies in the monotonous delivery of Augustine's marvelous work. The Narrator of the Confessions sounds the same whether he is recounting his time as an infant, a boy, a teenager, young adult, mature male--you get the idea. There are no inflections in the narrator's voice regardless of the rise and fall of emotions in the story.
I checked a sample of the R.S. Pine-Coffin (quite a name!) translation and it was excellent--the range of voices made me even more aware of the importance of the Narrator/Reader is going to be in Audible listening--that I'm going to continue with despite a weak performance here.
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