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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- De: Marie Kondo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27,559
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27,295
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I both love and hate this life changing book
- De Rebecca en 02-22-15
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- De: Marie Kondo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
The emperor has no clothes
Revisado: 10-02-16
It's hard for me to understand the near-religion status of this book. Although it has helped many people declutter and has some original insights, notably a focus on what "sparks joy" rather than what to discard, 95% of the book struck me as redundant, silly and arbitrary, aimed at young Japanese women like the client described as desirous of a life spent drinking herbal tea and doing yoga in her room in her parents' house. Who has time to spend talking to their underwear?
What prompts me to write a review, however, is the unpleasant narration. I didn't notice until after buying this book that it was the same reader as a book I recently returned to Audible because I couldn't stand to hear her voice for another second. Do editors not listen to her before hiring her, or is it believed that her Chinese surname gives her some special affinity with books by Asian authors? I found her voice nasal and her tone annoying. The bizarre, exaggerated voices she assumed when quoting clients or other organizing experts made me cringe. Embarrassingly creepy! Still, I thought, how bad could it be to endure for a short book? Bad.
Although I'm a dedicated audiobook lover and generally prefer to listen, if you decide to read this book, I recommend using your eyes instead of your ears.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- A Novel
- De: Jamie Ford
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,768
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,766
In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and Lovely. Highly recommend.
- De Robert en 02-06-09
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- A Novel
- De: Jamie Ford
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
Young Adult
Revisado: 02-17-15
I wanted to like this book, but my interest in the locale and the era couldn't make up for trite, redundant writing and sappy narration.
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Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince
- De: Nancy Atherton
- Narrado por: Teri Clark Linden
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. It was the object that mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine-year-old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house-turned-museum Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Hoping to avoid any real commotion, Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But there’s not much that could be done anyway for the Pickerings seem to have come into some money and moved to Australia.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrator - Is she a human or a computer?!
- De Leisa en 04-22-13
- Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince
- De: Nancy Atherton
- Narrado por: Teri Clark Linden
Robot Voice...give me my money back
Revisado: 05-19-13
I'm a fan of this series, but had never tried an audiobook version, so was looking forward to it. When the narration started, the voice was so odd that I thought my iPod had accidentally switched to the wrong speed. It is too unnatural and annoying to be a human reader, and I'm convinced that somebody thought the listeners wouldn't be able to tell the difference if they saved money by having a voice simulation instead of a person. Think of a perky female Stephen Hawking. Just shoot me.
I can't really review the book because the narration is too irritating and distracting to continue. I'll enjoy it later in print.
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