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Shanghai Grand
- Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
- De: Taras Grescoe
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 20
On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the 20th century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly 50 years, and play an integral part in opening Asia up to the West. But at the height of the Depression, "Mickey" Hahn, had just arrived in Shanghai nursing a broken heart after a disappointing affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Content: fascinating, narator: horrible
- De T.G. en 08-10-20
- Shanghai Grand
- Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
- De: Taras Grescoe
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
Content: fascinating, narator: horrible
Revisado: 08-10-20
I can't say anything about the narrator's pronunciation of Chinese because I don't speak the language but in fact everything about her performance got on my nerves. She affects a sing-song melody that is supposed to lend a whimsical quality to the faded expat gaiety described... I think. It just sounds annoying. Many sentences end on the upswing, like a question.
Every letter H sounds aspirated, lending a breathless quality to the performance.
It's a shame that this great book about a couple of riveting people is diminished by the poor voice performance.
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Women of Means
- The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls
- De: Marlene Wagman-Geller
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 755
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 682
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 681
The grass isn't greener on the other side: Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. They were the ones for whom the cornucopia had been upended, showering them with unimaginable wealth and opportunity. However, through intimate historical biographies, Women of Means shows us that oftentimes the weaving sisters saved their most heart-wrenching tapestries for the destinies of wealthy women. Women of Means is bound to be a non-fiction best seller, full of the best biographies of all time.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Did an editor read this?
- De jzm en 09-02-20
- Women of Means
- The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls
- De: Marlene Wagman-Geller
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
Offensive
Revisado: 05-08-20
This book is full of phrases designed to offend both sides of the
money divide. The have-nots are basically called sensation-seeking, jealous, greedy, resentful ghouls out for the thrill of watching poor little rich people wrecking their lives. The actual women of means described are confined to the ones providing Schadenfreude, no real history here just yellow press coverage.
Add to that way too many phrases that just roll off the tongue without meaning anything substantial.
All in all: sanctimonious, demeaning and without actual content.
How did another reviewer phrase it? Hard pass.
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The Rothschilds
- A Family Portrait
- De: Frederic Morton
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
No family in the past two centuries has been as constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. To this day they remain one of the most powerful and wealthy families in the world. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging read but dubious sentiment
- De T.G. en 04-23-20
- The Rothschilds
- A Family Portrait
- De: Frederic Morton
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
Engaging read but dubious sentiment
Revisado: 04-23-20
The reader manages to imbue the text with the right amount of unctousness and therein lies my problem with the book: it is astoundingly antisemitic. It purports the old clichés of the scheming, obsequious, devious jew. In the chapters about the family founder the author describes Meyer Rothschild as having an octopus-like way of doing business, planning, counter-planning and counter-counter-planning. His sons he sends out like hardened business sharks while he sits like a spider in his web in Frankfurt, beguiling the local ruler.
This all sounds like distressingly familiar rhetoric.
So despite the authors entertaining way to present a family's history the polemic turn of phrase is rather off-putting.
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