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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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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
lovely
Revisado: 03-18-22
The writing leaves one with the feeling and a sense of gravity typical of a much older tome. Everything about the story was just right.
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Wanting
- The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
- De: Luke Burgis
- Narrado por: Luke Burgis, Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 835
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 701
Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful - yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the most important books you'll ever read
- De chris boutte en 06-14-21
- Wanting
- The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
- De: Luke Burgis
- Narrado por: Luke Burgis, Sean Patrick Hopkins
awesome book! definitely going to relisten
Revisado: 01-15-22
unfortunately, something about the quality of the audio really accentuates the letters s and z, and it's a little bit painful to the ear. I could never quite find a perfect volume to listen at, either. the whole thing would be too quiet, or it would sound normal but every s and z would ring my ears. They almost sounded like they were whistling. But the book is fantastic, great thinker!
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- De: Julia Alvarez
- Narrado por: Blanca Camacho, Annie Henk, Annie Kozuch, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 356
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents captures the vivid lives of the Garcia sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America. In the 1960s, political tension forces the Garcia family away from Santo Domingo and toward the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I'm Latina and even I didn't like it
- De Anonymous User en 07-28-19
What a cluster
Revisado: 12-09-21
No sense wasting time talking about it. The story was in a completely random order, and it didn't seem to have a point. not a single one of the characters truly illustrated growth. This sort of seems like the random drunken musings and memories That A group of sisters around a table took turns blurting out.
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A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
- De: Lev Golinkin
- Narrado por: Daniel Gamburg
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible…. and thank them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching, moving Memoir
- De Daryl en 04-13-15
best book I've listened to in a long time
Revisado: 12-02-21
The writing is so genuine, and the image it paints is both accurate and colored with emotions that so many people of that time shared. It expresses a mingled combination of feelings and memories that's very hard to describe to someone who hasn't lived it-- And it does a very good job of giving others a glimpse, And in doing so helping people understand what that life experience was like.
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Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26,513
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18,583
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18,503
In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting read with contradictory messages
- De Danny en 04-21-05
- Blink
- The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
amazing. I'm definitely going to relisten!
Revisado: 09-28-21
And I don't usually reread/relisten to books. But this one was the one you just couldn't stop listening to. It was so interesting, and had so much useful knowledge that's going to color the way I look at the world! I already shared insights from it with my team at work, with friends, and with my husband at home.
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A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor]
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,529
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,569
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,612
A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Doctor Manette was wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years without trial by the aristocratic authorities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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it's the singer not the song*
- De Maynard en 11-09-13
- A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor]
- De: Charles Dickens
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Great book
Revisado: 06-09-16
I am 20 years old and have never read this before. It's reputation is accurate.
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