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Winter's Bone
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Woodrell
- Narrado por: Emma Galvin
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,687
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,690
The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Now I Want to see the Movie!
- De Pamela M. en 11-11-14
- Winter's Bone
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Woodrell
- Narrado por: Emma Galvin
A Chilling Look at Poverty in Appalachia
Revisado: 12-03-10
Galviin's voice, at once childish and slightly hoarse, is the perfect one to read this story. Woodrell's descriptions are always shaded with violence and desperation, and this tale of abject poverty in the snowy mountains of Appalachia benefits from all of them. Winter's Bone brings the reader into a the kind of world where you start to understand why hundred-year feuds still exist. The protagonist, a young girl named Ree, is already hardened but not invincible. As she navigates through fights with meth addicts and ignorant backwoods you start to believe she's on the most important mission of her life.
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Anthill
- De: E. O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
Inspirational and magical, here is the story of a boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself. "What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer's property. Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogman's 1,000-pound alligator. Thus, begins the saga of Anthill....
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4 out of 5 stars
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You just have to love ants
- De Kathryn en 10-27-10
- Anthill
- De: E. O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
Good Nonfiction, Mediocre Fiction
Revisado: 11-23-10
The information about how ant colonies develop, thrive, and die is pretty interesting. Nevertheless, the application of character development is never applied (nor, probably, could ever be applied) to these "characters." That's fine. It's interesting as a sort of nature documentary on the page, but it's the real "story" of the novel that is just pretty bizarre.
The story of the protagonist, Raph Sems Cody, is languid for the two thirds of the novel (discussing, basically, his love of the land over and over and over), proceeds to the description of a rather uneventful education, and then culminates in an incredibly random and illogical climax. The main protagonist, for some strange reason, is singled out for being some radical environmentalist, when he is in fact preaching a very mainstream message. The antagonists that Wilson creates probably exist somewhere at some time in the universe, but their miraculous appearance in this novel just ring false. Also, having the characters' dialog read aloud on the audio file just illustrates the ridiculousness of what they're saying, becoming vessels for abstract objections to the preservation of our natural world. At some moments, I actually thought: Wait, is this a joke? The end result of the novel is a slow and disappointingly unsatisfying story. But, you may never look at ants the same way again!
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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,268
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,264
Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen, living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The man who wants to be GOD
- De Gohar en 05-08-10
- Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Karen White
Amazing Insight
Revisado: 05-03-10
In such a hermetic regime as North Korea, it is nearly impossible to give a sense of what its citizens go through every day. In one sense I was just curious as to what things were like in the DPRK, and didn't care for the personal stories as much at first. But it makes the realization that their country is a bankrupt dictatorship by these characters even more powerful at the end. I don't think you would understand the forces keeping the North Koreans under tabs had you not read this story. It's a little bit like seeing a primitive culture discover technology in a first world nation. However, what makes this even more amazing is that these two peoples are from the same nation. The narrator is a good reader, but an annoying tick happens when she breathes in before each new sentence. You will soon forget about this phenomenon, but it's good to at least be aware of it.
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The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,911
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,178
Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real-estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his number-one best-selling Liar’s Poker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and Engaging
- De Jay en 03-23-10
- The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Jesse Boggs
Informative and Engaging
Revisado: 03-23-10
Lewis should be heralded for the way he takes a very complex idea (sub-prime mortgage default swap collateral debt obligations) and breaks it down into easy-to-understand language. If you were at all confused about how the financial system tanked in 2008, you'll be glad you read this book and also pretty disgusted at the kind of magical thinking that went on on Wall Street. But what makes this book readable is his characterization of three oracular entities (Mike Burry, Steve Eisman, and the Cornwall Capital Group) that foresaw the collapse before anyone else ever did. The characters come across as misanthropic, boisterous, and naive respectively and allow the reader to see the tragedy through three very different perspectives. A read you won't want to put down (...or turn off).
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