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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- De: Akash Kapur
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East-Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world - Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright. So how do John and Diane end up dying two decades later, on the same day, on a cracked concrete floor in a thatch hut by a remote canyon? This is the mystery Akash Kapur sets out to solve in Better to Have Gone.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narcissists go hungry in India
- De ET en 07-26-21
- Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- De: Akash Kapur
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
Two arrive where they started and know the place for the first time
Revisado: 11-16-24
Most second-generation members of newer high-demand religions and intentional communities, leave.
Many feel a twinge of nostalgic longing for the unique intensity of their good moments in their group of origin.
Some come back.
Very, very few return with the ability to see and describe their group and its place while inside but also outside.
This Author manages that rare feat. And shares a story of universal longings pursued in unique ways by two sets of parents and their children; children who found each other as adults in one world and decided to bring their children back to one very different.
This is a book I will think about a lot. I anticipate coming back to it whenever I seek to reinvent myself and my life. I think you will, too.
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The Sinner
- De: Petra Hammesfahr, John Brownjohn
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 809
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 721
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 718
Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. Cora confessed; there was no shortage of proof or witnesses. But Police Commissioner Rudolf Grovian refused to close the file and began his own maverick investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A FIVE
- De Donna en 06-04-17
- The Sinner
- De: Petra Hammesfahr, John Brownjohn
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
Narration ruined an excellent book
Revisado: 09-06-19
I listen to a lot of audio books. I have never previously absolutely hated the narration of a story to the point where it destroyed the story. I could not bring myself to listen until the end.
The narrator - who has a pleasant voice and may well be a good actress - inexplicably decided to do every voice of every character in this story in what I think is trying to be a German accent. I think it's German because this book is written by a German and set in Germany. Every person in it is German. It makes no sense whatsoever to give every character an accent. The fact that the narrator is incapable of doing any German accent raises this from an oddity to an unbearable annoyance.
I am a native Norwegian speaker who is fluent in English and knows some German, French and Spanish.
I note that to say this: these accents are the weirdest damned thing I've ever heard.
The first one I thought, oh, the character is supposed to be French.
He isn't.
The accents - again, I believe they are all attempts at German-sounding English - range the gamut from British-English received pronunciation to something vaguely Australian to hints of Spanish and French - often in the same sentence.
The one thing they do not sound like is a German speaking English.
And, again, this is a book by a German, set in Germany, with an all-German cast, where geography or nationality is no part of any plot or character description. There is no reason why any person in it should have their lines reas with any sort of accent.
The overall effect of cringing every time the reader delivers a line with this utter weird-ass made-up and ever-changing reader-created dialect, is to destroy the story.
Read this book; its a good tale - better than the mini-series based on it conveys.
Perhaps a native speaker of Chinese who cannot distinguish between any version of English or English-ish could manage to wrest the good story from the godawful narration.
Everyone else: do not under any circumstances buy this audiobook.
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Alien III
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Tom Alexander, Barbara Barnes, Michael Biehn, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 16 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 22,963
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20,818
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 20,741
Father of cyberpunk William Gibson’s original script for Alien III, written in 1987 as a sequel to Aliens, never made it to our screens, although it went on to achieve cult status among fans as the third instalment that might have been after being leaked online. This terrifying, cinematic multicast dramatisation - directed by the multi-award-winning Dirk Maggs - is the chance to experience William Gibson’s untold story and its terrifying, claustrophobic and dark encounters between humans and aliens, as a completely immersive audio experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio Dramatization of the Movie that never was
- De Alan en 05-31-19
- Alien III
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Tom Alexander, Barbara Barnes, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Lorelei King, Laurel Lefkow, Keith Wickham
Don't
Revisado: 06-15-19
I love Gibson, so I expected to enjoy this audio dramatization. I did not.
This is an action movie, except that instead of big-budget action, there is ponderous, endless, deadly dull narration of big-budget action sequences.
In narrative dialogue that reads as if it was written by the alien queen.
How many times can Ripley just barely in the last second reach the button that saves....by averting catastrophe....? Endlessly many. Each described in loving detail.
If you've ever dreamed of having a big, dumb action movie described to you in the form of stilted 'dialogue,' this is the audiobook of your dreams. For the rest of us - and for all the wrong reasons - its the stuff of nightmares.
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