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The Wheel of Doll
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Ames
- Narrado por: Jonathan Ames
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it’s Doll’s past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle—a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he’d seen her she’d been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Now, years later, Mary claims Ines is alive and recently made contact—only to disappear once again. Although his psychoanalyst would discourage it, Doll takes the case, desperate to see Ines again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another good Doll story
- De Deanna en 09-13-22
- The Wheel of Doll
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Ames
- Narrado por: Jonathan Ames
A real page turner
Revisado: 01-20-25
The perfect dumb book for smart readers. If Raymond Chandler knew what an iPhone was and how to have good time, he might have written something this entertaining.
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Pulphead
- Essays
- De: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrado por: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Duración: 12 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - how we really (no, really) live now. In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World.
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5 out of 5 stars
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interesting and intelligent
- De Jody R. Nathan en 07-06-14
- Pulphead
- Essays
- De: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrado por: John Jeremiah Sullivan
So Fucking Good
Revisado: 10-22-16
This is, I shit you not, the greatest collection of essays I've ever listen to. And I'm not like, Sullivan's brother, or editor, or something. I have never meet the guy. So try and understand that my use of hyperbole comes from a place of genuine admiration--although I realize I may be laying it on a little thick which might undermine the point I'm trying to make which is stop reading these review and buy this fucking book right now. Just for a point of reference I also enjoy essay collections by Rob Sheffield, Matt Taibbi, and Chuck Klosterman. So if you like those dude's work you will probably dig Sullivan. The only downside is that after listening to this collection you will want more essays like this and there really aren't any--although the previously mentioned authors come close. So my criticism for Sullivan is this: write more essays you fucker!
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- De: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 601
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 492
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 485
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have met the enemy and it is us.... Pogo
- De Soudant en 09-16-11
- That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- De: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
Well Duh . . .
Revisado: 10-28-11
Did you know they have this thing call the Internet now? Did you know it has revolutionized the way people work in many industries? If your awareness of the world around you is senile grandmother level, you too may be amazed at hour after hour of Friedman and Mandelbaums' endless litany of changes the digital revolution has brought. Friedman, in a desperate attempt to finally distinguishing himself as more then a poor man's Paul Krugman, revises his simi-obvious observations in The World is Flat into completely obvious monotony. Did you know they had the Internet on cell phones now? What will they think of next.
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Eating the Dinosaur
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Ira Glass, Errol Morris, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 754
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 532
In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fan's inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant Way To Spend 6.5 Hours
- De Nils J. Rasmussen en 06-21-13
- Eating the Dinosaur
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Ira Glass, Errol Morris, Keith Nobbs, Travis Tonn, Emily Tremaine
Better then expected based on the above reviews.
Revisado: 02-07-11
Even though I enjoyed IV and generally any insightful discussion of pop-culture, I was reluctantly to buy this audiobook because of the few and generally negative user reviews. "Self-absorbed Twaddle" , "Couldn't get into it" and "Ho Hum" they said--what the f*ck, other reviewers! Clearly if you are not interested in dissecting the minutia of pop culture you have come to the wrong place--but as this sort of this goes Eating the Dinosaur is as good as anything out there excepting maybe Malcolm Gladwell at his best or the better "This American Life" episodes, but both of those are more general interest and less pop/rock obsessed, so the comparison is not entirely level. Also, there is a great interview about interviews with Ira Glass, who makes an appearance on the audio book. Don't pay attention to the negative user reviews. If you like Klosterman's other books or if you like Rob Sheffield or you just like music and pop-culture in general, you will like this book.
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