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Atonement
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,237
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,232
In Atonement, three children lose their innocence, as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935, and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyperimaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. And as chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the guilt of which she shall carry throughout her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book about complex human perception
- De Amazon Customer en 08-17-04
- Atonement
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
Good novel, good narration, poor file splitting
Revisado: 12-22-15
Novel is excellently written, slow paced at first to match a lazy summer atmosphere but really comes into its own in the wartime chapters.
Narration is good but the production really suffered from irregular file splitting. It may seem like a petty issue but is a real bugbear of mine. Instead of the audiobook being split naturally into sections matching chapters (or Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Postscript in this case) the 14 hours was divided crudely into relatively even 45 minute sections. As with traditional reading it's often nice to finish a reading/listening section at the end of a chapter but here this is impossible to gauge. No real excuse for this oversight bar laziness as far as I can see
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Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat
- The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
- De: Chris Cooper
- Narrado por: Kieran Phoenix
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 14
Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the limits of human performance. Showing the basic problems of human biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy, he looks at what stops us running faster, throwing longer, or jumping higher. Using these evidence-based arguments he shows what the body can, and cannot, do.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Possibly an ok book ruined by awful execution
- De David Bourke en 08-29-14
- Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat
- The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
- De: Chris Cooper
- Narrado por: Kieran Phoenix
Possibly an ok book ruined by awful execution
Revisado: 08-29-14
The book itself was quite technical in parts so was tough to transmit to the audio format. However, this was just made worse by awful awful narration and many references to diagrams that obviously the listener couldn't see. These diagrams should have been made available as a pdf like many other audiobooks do. Narration was truly woeful with many mispronunciations so bad they have to be heard to be believed.
Hard to get past these issues. The best audiobooks consider the format translation from print to audio. This book just seemed like it was decided just to pick the quickest and crudest way possible to try to cash in on the audiobook market
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