Edward S Bancroft
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Twist
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Colum McCann
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So happy he’s still writing fiction
- De Franki en 03-31-25
- Twist
- A Novel
- De: Colum McCann
- Narrado por: Colum McCann
What was left out
Revisado: 05-04-25
I have read several books by this author and once again he delivers a thoughtful immersive experience. I learned a lot about undersea cables, their importance and their vulnerability. Our inability to really understand, to make sense of things is represented by Conway. First he fixes then he breaks. Why?
Plus the writing is fantastic!
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This Is Happiness
- De: Niall Williams
- Narrado por: Dermot Crowley
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,606
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,409
Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Poetry disguised as Prose
- De bobgreenberger en 09-26-20
- This Is Happiness
- De: Niall Williams
- Narrado por: Dermot Crowley
What a warm and wonderful book!
Revisado: 06-10-23
I had never heard of this author before. I saw a reference to it in the NYT By The Book column. I am not going to ever forget this book and its definition of happiness!
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Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- De: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrado por: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,485
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,483
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent listen.
- De Mark en 04-11-22
- Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- De: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrado por: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, Kirsten Potter
Provocative and beautiful
Revisado: 04-30-22
Mandel’s world is eerie and definitely not bound by the present. A detail: the narrator of the 1917 section is the same narrator of barbara Tuchman’s history of WW I. That added to the haunting experience for me.
The details of the future are matter of fact background to the very compelling story.
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Trenton Makes
- A Novel
- De: Tadzio Koelb
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 10
1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege. In the hardscrabble industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, a woman made strong by wartime factory work kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl, disposes of his body, and assumes his identity. As Abe Kunstler, he secures a job in a wire rope factory, buys a car, and successfully woos Inez, an alcoholic dime dancer. He makes a home with her, but for Abe, this is not enough: to complete his transformation, he needs a son.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A beautifully written, perfectly awful story
- De Mamabetz en 10-16-18
- Trenton Makes
- A Novel
- De: Tadzio Koelb
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
Bizarre trip in a tortured mind
Revisado: 08-15-18
I have not read anything like this before. The emergence of Abe Kuntzler is a fascinating response to a terrible event. Not a fun read but I dare you not to finish it.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
- A Novel
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chris Chalk, Rutina Wesley
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,091
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,605
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,585
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural 21st-century America. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi's past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyric & sensual writing, devastating story
- De Margaret en 11-13-17
- Sing, Unburied, Sing
- A Novel
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chris Chalk, Rutina Wesley
Devastating!
Revisado: 12-23-17
Such a powerful evocation of both the present and past impact of racism in the Deep South.
The ghosts are like the characters from Lincoln in the Bardo, creatures with an unsettled death.
Boy! Parchman must have been hell on earth!
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Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,507
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,344
Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
- De Joyce M. Bernheim en 12-30-16
- Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
Wonderful quasi truthful memoir
Revisado: 03-24-17
Michael Chabon has spent time with his very colorful grandfather and recounts what he learns. Crossing WW II, the holocaust, the space age and a stricken Jewish family he visits a lot of territory very skillfully. The grandfather is a character to remember.
I'll miss the people in the book.
Thanks Michael
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45,976
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,597
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41,427
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
What a wonderful world he has created
Revisado: 01-24-17
What first you think will be a satire or story of Bolshevik danger becomes a full and rich story of a life in what falsely seems at the beginning a very limited world.
Not so
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The Spinning Heart
- A Novel
- De: Donal Ryan
- Narrado por: Wayne Farrell
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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21 Distinct Voices Beautifully Crafted
- De Cariola en 03-19-14
- The Spinning Heart
- A Novel
- De: Donal Ryan
- Narrado por: Wayne Farrell
Dark complex story of a recession ridden Irish town
Revisado: 10-17-16
I can't say I enjoyed the book and often I was confused about who was speaking, but this interwoven tale is a powerful and sad depiction of the weight of family and community.
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The Sellout
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,967
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,579
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,568
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Appreciated it, but didn't like it
- De Eugenia en 04-14-16
- The Sellout
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
Provocative and FUNNY satire of race in America
Revisado: 10-14-16
What did you love best about The Sellout?
The forbidden nature of the language and situations made it feel like eavesdropping on ways of expression I could NEVER use.
What did you like best about this story?
The story was not the thing here. It was stream of consciousness once the scenes were set up that made it so entertaining and disturbing. I listened while walking and several times found myself laughing out loud, NOT wanting to explain what I just heard to passersby.
Which scene was your favorite?
The African American Supreme Court Justice's reaction to the case before him at the beginning of the book.
Any additional comments?
As a white person there are many times I felt a little squeamish about laughing at what felt like insider humor.
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Second Life
- A Novel
- De: S. J. Watson
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 356
When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. But Julia's quest quickly evolves into an alluring exploration of her own darkest sensual desires. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger online, she's losing herself...losing control...perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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UGH
- De NO en 06-10-15
- Second Life
- A Novel
- De: S. J. Watson
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
Twisty and Twisted
Revisado: 09-13-16
You don't like her but you can't resist staying until you find out. Really compelling!
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