Lenora A. Timm
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Expatriate Paris
- A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s
- De: Arlen J. Hansen
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 13
Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. This book - a work of immense erudition spiced with anecdotes and gossip - documents their haunts and habits, their comings and goings, their relationships intimate and artistic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A rushed and boring affair
- De Lenora A. Timm en 03-19-14
- Expatriate Paris
- A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s
- De: Arlen J. Hansen
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
A rushed and boring affair
Revisado: 03-19-14
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Sticking with fewer expatriates and providing more information. As it is, the narrator rushes from Paris Street to Paris Street, providing house number and American celebrities who lived in them in the 1920s. It might be useful if one only wishes to wander the streets of Paris and exult "Imagine, so-and-so live there for X months." Maybe that's why it called a "guide". But it left this reader (listener cold)
Has Expatriate Paris turned you off from other books in this genre?
Not necessarily. There doubtless is a way of doing this more engagingly.
What didn’t you like about Robert Blumenfeld’s performance?
It was fairly monotonous and quite rushed.
What character would you cut from Expatriate Paris?
Many of them; but my bias is toward more meaningful biographical information, and clearly this was not the author's intention.
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