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Leave the World Behind
- A Novel
- De: Rumaan Alam
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3,176
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2,795
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2,808
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I knew people wouldn’t like it
- De BookLover en 10-15-20
- Leave the World Behind
- A Novel
- De: Rumaan Alam
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
Amazing. Chilling. Haunting.
Revisado: 02-05-21
Even though the book is suffused with this nameless dread, some world altering event we and the characters can't fully make sense of, there's also a lightness (It's not Cormac McCarthy's the Road in other words) and lots of humour and the desire to keep going and find out what's going to happen that you get from the best page turning thriller.
I don't know if it's listening to this in the middle of a third covid lockdown in the middle of nowhere, but everything about it felt so resonant. I think it's going to haunt me for a long time. I can't believe I haven't heard more about this. I can't believe the audible rating is so low.
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Career of Evil
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
- Duración: 17 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,592
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16,099
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,029
When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible - and any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike has essentially ruled out, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Characters Mean Everything
- De Chip Atkinson en 11-09-15
- Career of Evil
- De: Robert Galbraith
- Narrado por: Robert Glenister
Just sooooo good
Revisado: 11-07-15
Would you listen to Career of Evil again? Why?
Yes. I'm sad I've finished it.
What other book might you compare Career of Evil to and why?
The other Galbraith books obviously, and maybe somebody like Tana French or Gillian Flynn.
Which character – as performed by Robert Glenister – was your favorite?
He's a great narrator but I think he's made to capture Strike
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American Isis
- The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
- De: Carl Rollyson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 24
American Isis is the first Plath biography benefiting from the new Ted Hughes archive at the British Library, which includes 41 letters between Plath and Hughes as well as a host of unpublished papers. The Sylvia Plath that Carl Rollyson brings to us in American Isis is no shrinking violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes; she is a modern-day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself in the literary firmament.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sylvia Plath/ Marilyn Monroe, spot the difference!
- De Rachel en 08-04-15
- American Isis
- The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
- De: Carl Rollyson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
Sylvia Plath/ Marilyn Monroe, spot the difference!
Revisado: 08-04-15
Would you try another book from Carl Rollyson and/or George Newbern?
Nope
What do you think your next listen will be?
The biography I considered buying before choosing this one
Any additional comments?
While the later chapters of the book were well researched, the author's claim to avoid the boilerplate of previous biographies made the book seem disjointed and anecdotal. Rollyson also sensationalises Plath, seeming to argue that her decision to commit suicide was a shrewd career move. But the thing that drove me absolutely crazy, and which I can't believe an editor didn't pull him up on, is the constant, forced comparison to Marilyn Monroe, just because he also wrote a biography of the actress. By the fifth section beginning 'Like Marilyn Monroe....' I was seething. It was like bad undergraduate work - 'And now I'm going to draw a vague and unaccountable comparison with this other thing I know something about'. Grrrr...
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