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Outer Dark
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,023
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 908
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 906
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Throwing chert boulders at the dark center
- De Darwin8u en 04-22-13
- Outer Dark
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
Best Twentieth Century Gothic I’ve ever read.
Revisado: 12-20-19
This book is a Southern Gothic. It relates the story of a young man Cullah and his sister Rinthy. Cullah has deserted their baby immediately after childbirth. He tells his sister that he gave the baby to a tinker who had passed their abode. Rinthy sets out to find her baby and Cullah follows after, searching for her. The horror to come is dark and terrible.
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Treasure Island
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Millions of people have thrilled to the adventure of young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver since the publication of Treasure Island in 1883. It has been dramatized countless times since its appearance. Treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and peglegged sailors with parrots on their shoulders: All these stereotypes of the buccaneer tale were the invention of R. L. Stevenson. But make no mistake about it...this novel is a masterpiece of plot development, character study, and sheer writing skill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Liatris en 12-30-14
- Treasure Island
- De: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
Avoid a black spot!
Revisado: 11-04-19
This is at least my third read of Treasure Island and I’ve never enjoyed it so much. Probably because of the wonderful narration of Carlton Griffon, one of my favorite readers. This is an absolute classic book and it isn’t even necessary to offer a composite of the plot as it is so well known. If you haven’t read it, you’re missing a real treat. And perhaps you deserve a black spot.
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The Gentleman in the Parlour
- A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by river to Angkor Wat. From there he went down river to Saigon, then by ship to Hue and Haiphong. He ends the audiobook with an anecdotal story of his fellow passengers while on shipboard to Haiphong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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the crummy music
- De Thomas F. Arnall en 01-28-25
- The Gentleman in the Parlour
- A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
Excellent introduction to Maugham’s Travel books
Revisado: 09-11-19
This is simply the best “adventure travel” book that I’ve read in quite a long time. The narrator was particularly good. So good, in fact, that I’ll be shopping for more books that he has narrated. Maugham relates his journey throughout the Asian world with stops in a host of countries including several spots in Malaysia, China, VietNam, Cambodia, Singapore and others. Also, interspersed in the book are three short stories that are related to him by the denizens of these places. Wonderful book!
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