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We All Want Impossible Things
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Newman
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 231
Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They’ve shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan’s Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, “Edi’s memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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When your bff goes into hospice...
- De Barbara S en 11-15-22
- We All Want Impossible Things
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Newman
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
Self important and beyond boring
Revisado: 03-19-23
Self important and beyond boring. No character development. Barely a plot. Not well written. Humorless.
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The Recent East
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 29
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Haas, who defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents’ abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. Newly divorced and eager to escape her bleak life in upstate New York, where she moved as an adult, she arrives with her two teenagers to discover a city that has become an unrecognizable ghost town.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ephemeral, yet deep
- De alexenos en 08-05-22
- The Recent East
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
Boring Boring Boring
Revisado: 09-15-21
Unlikeable, sullen, self-absorbed characters, all of whom are boring beyond belief. Could not get past the first few chapters.
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- De: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 32 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,408
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,895
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,883
This transcendent story follows four college friends who move to New York City, buoyed by ambition: Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, an artist; Malcolm, an architect; and, at the center, Jude, a withdrawn, brilliant attorney haunted by an unspeakable past. Through decades of shared and separate lives, Jude’s suffering - and its impact on those who love him - raises questions about the limits of human endurance, the possibility for redemption, and the meaning of friendship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I had to call in SAD to work
- De Angela en 10-17-15
- A Little Life
- A Novel
- De: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
Do not torture yourself with this book
Revisado: 12-21-16
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This book is little more than one big pity party: a prurient descent into madness, self- loathing and self-multination. The characters are either docile door mats or predators, all of whom could benefit from an extended stay at a psychiatric hospital. If I hear the phrase, "I'm sorry," one more time, I might scream. As if those three words are sufficient excuse for horrific actions. The book spans college through adulthood but none of the characters changes or grows with the passage of time. Andy, the doctor who treats Jude, the central character, has clearly forgotten the Hippocratic oath and should have his license removed by the AMA. As for the so-called friends: they are little more than enablers. Fairness of full disclosure, I took pity on myself two thirds of the way through and put the book down. Take it up at your own peril.
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