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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
- Duración: 2 h y 2 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42,723
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36,817
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36,649
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Leaves much to be desired
- De Melody H en 02-02-20
- Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
Confessions of an addict…
Revisado: 04-19-23
An interesting and engaging look at the effect of a simple, bitter, psychoactive substance on human civilization.
There is the strictly Darwinian view that tea trees and coffee bushes used caffeine’s effects on animal brains to propagate worldwide, first by the cultivation of insect pollinators, up to humans smuggling coffee and tea across great global empires. There are the effects of coffee houses, the original “chat rooms,” and caffeine’s effect on the thinkers of the Enlightenment.
And the foam on the latte, so to speak, a visit to a Colombian coffee farm.
Engaging and entertaining, the piece is delightfully short enough to finish in a single listen.
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Guns
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,647
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,461
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,443
In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King's keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't be duped into BUYING this abuse
- De betty en 02-16-13
- Guns
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
Not what you'd expect
Revisado: 04-20-15
If you are looking for the next thriller from probably the most prodigious and skilled master of the creeps, then this isn't it! This isn't a story, but an essay; a well-thought out and insightful discourse on the plague of mass murder by gun violence in America, and the inadequate way that American society deals with it.
Narrator Rummel keeps the listener riveted as he brings King's words to life. And King's common sense and incising words cut through the usual crap one reads on the subject.
Download and listen if you want a fresh perspective on this issue, but don't expect a horror story; THIS horror is for real!
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1984
- New Classic Edition
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57,083
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48,911
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48,826
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Come one, Come all into 1984!
- De Kit McIlvaine (GirlPluggedN) en 02-18-08
- 1984
- New Classic Edition
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
A political nightmare
Revisado: 11-11-12
George Orwell's classic dystopian world is brought to life in this audio retelling of 1984. This performance requires some patience on the part of the listener as the Story of Winston Smith starts to unfold. The narrator, Simon Prebble gives a very true performance, but the work describes a world that is gray, dingy, depressing, and humorless, so the narration seems dry, dull and boring. But the performance merely reflects the mood of the book, as the nightmare that is Airstrip One in the nation of Oceania unfolds.
The performance really picks up as the characters of Winston, Julia and O'Brien form and come to life. Stick with this one; you will be rewarded in the end. Well, before the end, actually. After sixty-five years, 1984 remains a chilling, frightening portrait of a world that might have been. And could still be.
Big Brother is watching!
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I Still Have A Pony
- De: Steven Wright
- Duración: 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
After almost 25 years in the making, the most rumored comedy album is finally hitting the streets. As the elder statesman of bizarre one liners, Wright has had a decades long career creating the smartest, surrealist, oddball comedy out there, delivered in his characteristic deadpan. His first album, , was Grammy nominated when it was released in 1985 and has sold nearly a million copies. I Still Have A Pony contains the best of 20+ years of new material and has already been critically acclaimed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brainy, Clever and Fresh Humor!
- De DEF en 01-21-11
- I Still Have A Pony
- De: Steven Wright
Exactly what you'd expect
Revisado: 05-29-12
Steven Wright once again proved he is the Salvador Dali of stand-up comedy. Wright's deadpan delivery is right-on, having been honed by decades of one-line, high-concept, non-sequitors. Wright's mind is a twisted Mobius strip of concept and experience, and following his narratives will leave you similarly twisted and laughing out loud.
This performance is, as the title implies, very much a continuance of his previous body of work; nothing new here. If you loved Wright's previous material, you'll love this, too; some may feel disappointed as if it all had been heard before. If you *don't* like Steven Wright, why are you even reading this?
Steven Wright still has a pony, and still has a lock on my funny bone.
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Zero Day
- De: David Baldacci
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15,377
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13,599
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,552
From David Baldacci - the modern master of the thriller and number-one worldwide best-selling novelist - comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Big fan of David Baldacci, not a fan of Zero Day
- De William R. en 11-22-11
- Zero Day
- De: David Baldacci
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
Bubble gum...
Revisado: 05-29-12
This is a compactly written, formulaic novel that failed to strike a chord with this listener.
[This novel is not to be confused with another novel by the same title written by Mark Russinovich and Howard Schmidt. That title is (as of this writing) not yet available on Audible, so if you are looking for that book, you'll have to wait a bit.]
Baldacci's protagonist is one-dimensional, almost superhuman, and, once you get to know him, entirely uninteresting. Puller, an Army criminal investigator, is thrown into a multi-faceted mystery when a colonel and his family are found brutally slain in the coal country of West Virginia. The action of the plot, through twists and turns, leaves Puller virtually unchanged from his state and station at page one, so what was the point of the action? Besides just action, that is?
And there is plenty of action. Puller is masterfully voiced by Ron McLarty, as is the part of the female local sheriff, by Orlagh Cassidy. Ms. Cassidy, carrying the female dialog, shows less range than her male counterpart, inflicting a rural brogue to all of her voices, a situation that works for the Appalachian sheriff, but not so much for the other characters.
This listen is for the listener who wants to put their feet up and loose themselves in an action novel. If you want stimulation or illumination, look elsewhere. If you just want to relax with a quick read, enjoy Zero Day.
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