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City of Dreams
- A Novel
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him.
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Atmospheric and visceral
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 04-18-23
- City of Dreams
- A Novel
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
Great narration
Revisado: 05-14-23
Nowadays there are apps for creating speech from the patterns of human speaker. But the subtle shifts and pauses in this narration show that there still a huge amount of value in having a human narrator.
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Palace of Treason
- A Novel
- De: Jason Matthews
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow and the Center, the headquarters of her service. She finds things worse than when she left. She despises the men she must serve, the oligarchs and crooks and thugs of Putin's Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington's most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.
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Narrator's inconsistency
- De Bruce P. Woodward en 10-23-16
- Palace of Treason
- A Novel
- De: Jason Matthews
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
Thoroughly enjoyable
Revisado: 05-22-22
…Even when it was heartbreaking. And I love the recipes. The voice acting really makes this presentation work.
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Too Famous
- The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned
- De: Michael Wolff
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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Best-selling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media whores, and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers, and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his disemboweling of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerizing portrait of the hubris, overreach, and nearly inevitable self-destruction of some of the most famous faces from the Clinton era through the Trump years.
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Can’t trust it.
- De Anonymous User en 10-22-21
- Too Famous
- The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned
- De: Michael Wolff
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
Thoroughly enjoyable
Revisado: 01-08-22
…even—especially—the chapter on Jeffrey Epstein. The chapters on Andrew Cuomo were an interesting time capsule. The chapters on Trump, Bannon, and Kushner were rehashes of materials in other Wolff books, but even those were fun to listen to.
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The Last Slave Ships
- New York and the End of the Middle Passage
- De: John Harris
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States.
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Must-read on the end of the international slavery
- De Darya Silman en 07-29-22
- The Last Slave Ships
- New York and the End of the Middle Passage
- De: John Harris
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
Great story but only part of it
Revisado: 05-03-21
This was some really interesting history that the general public is probably not aware of. Who knew New York, and not Baltimore (in a slave state but that never seceded) and not New Orleans (definitely in a slave state) was the capital of the slave trade from 1850 on to the end of the Civil War. But I wish there had been more on the African side: Who were the slave traders there? How did they capture people who were then enslaved? Was it one ethnic group versus another? All still to be known.
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
- A Memoir and a Reckoning
- De: Alex Halberstadt
- Narrado por: Alex Halberstadt
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.
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some depth and some historical narration
- De turgan@monomood.com en 09-21-21
- Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
- A Memoir and a Reckoning
- De: Alex Halberstadt
- Narrado por: Alex Halberstadt
Thoroughly enjoyed it despite the melancholia
Revisado: 01-06-21
I heard about this book on a podcast reviewing Robert Draper’s book To Start a War. At the end of the podcast, Draper recommended this book as a reflection on the decay of Soviet and Russian society. This book was certainly that but also a deeply personal story of immigration and loss. Very touching.
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Broken
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption, Broken is number-one international best seller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters, and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway.
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Amazing Stories from a Master Storyteller
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 04-08-20
- Broken
- De: Don Winslow
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Kaleo Griffith
No surprises but great entertainment
Revisado: 08-22-20
Reporter is the real star here. His narration really brings these stories to life. I just wish that they were longer and more complex and nuanced. It was nice to revisit characters from previous Don Winslow books.
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The Accidental Superpower
- The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, will pave the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. No other country has a greater network of internal waterways, a greater command of deepwater navigation, or a firmer hold on industrialization technologies than America.
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DDD: Demographics Determine Destiny
- De Soudant en 03-23-15
- The Accidental Superpower
- The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan
Great ending for the U.S. Terrible one for everyone else. Hope it’s well-researched
Revisado: 12-27-19
This is a really wide-ranging look at the advantages of our geography and demographics, and the consequences of those factors to our standing in the rest of the world. As an American it’s practically all great news, but I worry that the subjects are too broad to have been properly researched and the conclusions properly tested.
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- De: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency's original mission was to create "the unimagined weapons of the future". Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology.
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Blandly written story about DARPA politics
- De Syed en 04-18-17
- The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- De: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
An interesting subject dumbed down and made dull
Revisado: 12-19-18
I’m really sorry I bought this listen. It’s just so tiresome. Instead of discussing science and technology, the author seems to focus on personalities and bureaucratic infighting. The narrator sounds tired or exasperated all the time.
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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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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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Appreciated it, but didn't like it
- De Eugenia en 04-14-16
- The Sellout
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
Brilliant writing and performance, shaggy dog plot
Revisado: 11-07-18
The writing and especially the dialogue were great. Hilarious! The voice-acting captured what I think the author meant. But it was all so loaded with one-liners it was sometimes hard to remember the plot.
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Red Sparrow
- A Novel
- De: Jason Matthews
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow" - a trained seductress in the service, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.
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Sexy Saucy Spies
- De Mel en 06-13-13
- Red Sparrow
- A Novel
- De: Jason Matthews
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
Not a page turner: far better
Revisado: 07-14-18
“Page turner” is the dumbest accolade for a book. This book, I throw down and savor. Think about how excellent it is. Go over in my mind the joys of plot development and character delineation. Think of whom I’d cast for the movie if it were up to me. (Basically, I’d recycle the cast of Sicario (2015): Emily Blunt in brunette as Dominika, Jon Bernthal as Nash (in real life Bernthal’s father is a lawyer), Benicio del Toro as Marble, Victor Farber as Forsyth, Josh Brolin as Gable, Jeffrey Donovan (the guy with the tight mustache) as Matarin, etc.) Copy down and learn new words in Russian. My favorite is яйца, what metaphorically Dominika has in abundance.
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