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Desert Star
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 10,173
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,276
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,221
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Michael Connelly never disappoints!
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 11-08-22
- Desert Star
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles
Harry and Rene do it again
Revisado: 11-29-22
Another fine Bosch mystery. The only issue I have is the audio recording is horrible. Evidently they recorded the voices in different studios because the characters never seem like they are actually talking to one another and the overall sound quality is different. The last recording was the same. Titus seems mostly to just be reading the lines with no investment in the part.
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The Dark Hours
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,286
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,268
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,212
There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much Covid; not enough Bosch
- De sdhaase1 en 11-13-21
- The Dark Hours
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin
Good book; uneven readers
Revisado: 12-22-21
Lakin is a great reader; Welliver was horrible - like he recorded it separately and just read it to get it over as fast as possible. A good and engaging story.
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Dance of the Jakaranda
- De: Peter Kimani
- Narrado por: John Sibi-Okumu
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya's railroad. Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Great Britain, Dance of the Jakaranda reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism and the special circumstances that brought black, brown, and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the birth of the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen with a historic perspective.
- De epic en 11-02-17
- Dance of the Jakaranda
- De: Peter Kimani
- Narrado por: John Sibi-Okumu
Magnificent performance of a fine book
Revisado: 04-20-17
If you could sum up Dance of the Jakaranda in three words, what would they be?
Kimani weaves a rich, intimate portrait of Kenya over more than a century, all tied to the construction of the Mombasa to Lake Victoria railroad.
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,905
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,418
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,424
In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with The Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America, a tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating history of early Forest Service
- De P. Bergh en 11-11-09
- The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Stretching a single event into a too-long story
Revisado: 04-01-12
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Author fell in love with every little fact about the Big Burn and just couldn't leave any out. Book would have been better if it were shorter.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Take out all the repetition about the Big Burn -- author seemed to feel we needed to hear the same thing several times.
Have you listened to any of Robertson Dean’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
A fine narrator
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The Orphan Master's Son
- A Novel
- De: Adam Johnson
- Narrado por: Tim Kang, Josiah D. Lee, James Kyson Lee, y otros
- Duración: 19 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,578
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,578
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most compelling listen I've ever owned
- De Lisa en 01-27-12
- The Orphan Master's Son
- A Novel
- De: Adam Johnson
- Narrado por: Tim Kang, Josiah D. Lee, James Kyson Lee, Adam Johnson
Insight into a very dark place
Revisado: 04-01-12
What made the experience of listening to The Orphan Master's Son the most enjoyable?
Author did a terrific job of taking the facts about a truly weird country and weaving them into a believable and exciting story. I enjoyed every minute of it.
What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
A very fine narrator. Gave the book a lot of punch and drama.
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Hemingway's Boat
- Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934 - 1961
- De: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
An award-winning historian and author, Paul Hendrickson here turns his attention to one of America’s most cherished literary icons, Ernest Hemingway. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Hendrickson focuses on Hemingway’s life in its twilight, just prior to his suicide, and the seemingly singular constant in the man’s life: his boat, Pilar. On this vessel, Hemingway would entertain and travel, but it would also be the scene of some of his greatest tragedies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Hemingway biography for the 21st Century
- De George en 09-16-14
- Hemingway's Boat
- Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934 - 1961
- De: Paul Hendrickson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
He manges to make Hemmingway boring
Revisado: 04-01-12
Is there anything you would change about this book?
Book would be best read abridged. He fell in love with every fact he found and filled the pages with them. He needed a good editor to prune it back.
Would you be willing to try another book from Paul Hendrickson? Why or why not?
Not at this point.
What does Jonathan Davis bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
A fine reader, stuck with a too-long book.
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,491
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,021
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,012
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- De A reader en 05-01-12
- The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
Who'd have thought this could be so fascinating?
Revisado: 04-01-12
What made the experience of listening to The Swerve the most enjoyable?
A terrific story and reader. I could have done without Greenblatt's story about his mother at the beginning, but otherwise it is a terrific book.
What about Edoardo Ballerini’s performance did you like?
A great reader
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The City & The City
- De: China Mieville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,615
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,020
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,024
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl ú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borl must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reviews, Dishonesty and The Emperor's New Clothes
- De Robert en 01-27-13
- The City & The City
- De: China Mieville
- Narrado por: John Lee
Ingenius ajnd complex
Revisado: 07-03-09
A fictional Balkland setting that stretches the reality there (and here) to where you see the absurdities of the frontier lines betweeen countries.
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy
- America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
- De: Michael B. Oren
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 27 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines, and from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peace, the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, merchants, and missionaries, both men and women, have had a profound impact on the shaping of this crucial region.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very pleasantly surprised...
- De Judy en 05-30-07
- Power, Faith, and Fantasy
- America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
- De: Michael B. Oren
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
Power, Faith and Fantasy
Revisado: 09-23-08
This is an extraordinary story about the US's involvement in the Middle East. I never realized the extent of this involvement and how present day actions are a logical continuation of what we have been doing there for over 200 years. Scary.
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A Hundred & One Days
- A Baghdad Journal
- De: Asne Seierstad
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
From January until April 2003, for 101 days, Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before, during, and after the attacks by the American and British forces.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A very enjoyable listen
- De Sonoma en 06-30-08
- A Hundred & One Days
- A Baghdad Journal
- De: Asne Seierstad
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
A very enjoyable listen
Revisado: 06-30-08
I have enjoyed all her books and especially this one. She gives a perspective on Bagdad before and after the war like no one else. The reader is superb, too, which makes it all the more enjoyable.
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