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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 30,582
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27,679
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27,613
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- De Billy en 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
An artificial device, but involving
Revisado: 12-16-24
Humorous and gruesome at the same time. I would have preferred a more neutral narrative voice. But it was an attempt at being true to the protagonist’s roots. The ending worked as Dickensian outcome.
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Lamb
- The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,461
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,388
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,397
Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more (except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdalan) and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blasphemus or righteous?
- De Timothy en 08-19-08
- Lamb
- The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- De: Christopher Moore
- Narrado por: Fisher Stevens
A disappointing work
Revisado: 08-23-23
Reviews compare this with Vonnegut and Robbins, authors I appreciate. So I expected something more on the level of Monty pythons brilliant “life of Brian. Maybe a 50 page distillation of this would have had more impact
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45,966
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,589
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41,419
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
Minor cavils
Revisado: 01-15-17
A very creative take on a dark period In Russian history. My only wish is that the reader would have taken more care in the pronunciation of Russian places and names which often or marred by stress on the wrong syllable!
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- De: James Joyce
- Narrado por: Michael Orenstein
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 278
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 247
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 244
The intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised. He finally leaves for abroad to pursue his ambitions as an artist. The work is an early example of some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later be represented in a more developed manner by Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The novel, which has had a "huge influence on novelists across the world", was ranked by Modern Library as the third greatest English-language novel of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I don't understand the hate...
- De J. Grablowski en 01-05-18
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- De: James Joyce
- Narrado por: Michael Orenstein
Wrong voice for MY head
Revisado: 11-02-13
What did you like best about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? What did you like least?
I started to read "A Portrait of the Artist..." in my late teens, knowing it to be a "classic," but found it stylistically unappealing to me at the time. It had become part of my (61-year-old female) "bucket list," and appealed to me out from the Audible catalogue. Alas, the stylized Brogue of the narrator's voice interfered with the mulitiplicity of literary associations I might have had, and the author's adolescent male anguishes stemming from his Catholic upbringing could not resonate in my Russophilic soul.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Stephen Daedalus, or course.
Would you be willing to try another one of Michael Orenstein’s performances?
I fear I am not likely to be a reader of works he might record.
Do you think A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
I've been tiptoeing around "Ulysses" for most of my adult life, and fearing "Finnegan's Wake" ever since to coincided with the early bout of insanity chronicled in Sylvia Plath's "Bell Jar."
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