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Of Moths and Butterflies
- De: V.R. Christensen
- Narrado por: Rachel P. Jenkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
Archer Hamilton is a collector of rare and beautiful insects. Gina Shaw is a servant in his uncle's house. Clearly out of place in the position in which she has been discovered, she becomes a source of fascination...and curiosity. A girl with a blighted past and a fortune she deems a curse, Gina has lowered herself in order to find escape from her family and their scheming designs. But there is more than one way to trap an insect. An arranged marriage might turn out profitable for more parties than one. Mr. Hamilton is about to make the acquisition of a lifetime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great narration
- De Kris M en 05-05-18
- Of Moths and Butterflies
- De: V.R. Christensen
- Narrado por: Rachel P. Jenkins
Great narration
Revisado: 05-05-18
I enjoy a long book, so I didn't mind the 20 hr, 44min run time. The plot kept me engrossed until the very end. Rachel P. Jenkins is a fantastic narrator and I hope she narrates some other books soon!
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Freakonomics
- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- De: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrado por: Stephen J. Dubner
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 7,100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,544
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,546
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating book, despite the title.
- De Timothy en 04-19-05
- Freakonomics
- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- De: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrado por: Stephen J. Dubner
What it's really about
Revisado: 10-26-05
Most of the reviews here and most of the conversations I've had about this book revolve around the subjects presented and whether or not they are believable, correct, or interesting, but none of that (although fascinating to me) seemed to me to really be the point of the book. I think the real intent of the authors is to convey the idea that it can be possible to quantifiably answer questions that don't seem possible to do so at first glance and to show how to approach those questions in ways that can yield real results. If you read the book and take away from it the results of the investigations, then you walk away with some interesting information, but I think that if the authors' intent had been to merely convey that information, it could have been done much more concisely, leaving room for still more study results. Instead, they focus heavily on the processes of their investigations, and it is my feeling that their intent in doing so is to help enable others to be able to do the same when analyzing their own unanswerable questions.
In addition, the recurring theme of challenging "conventional wisdom" cannot be overlooked. I don't think that the authors have an expectation that their readers will be able to go out and discover all the real truths behind the many assumptions we have about how our societies operate, but I do think that they have a hope that we might begin simply by questioning the validity of the things that we hear, are taught, or take for granted.
If you review the book solely as a source of interesting, unique, and sometimes controversial social insights, it's probably kind of hit-and-miss. If, however, you review it as a guide to critical thinking and analysis, it is quite successful, and I highly recommend it as such.
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The Shadow Rising
- Book Four of The Wheel of Time
- De: Robert Jordan
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Duración: 41 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34,532
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28,755
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28,731
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Book So Far
- De David en 09-22-07
- The Shadow Rising
- Book Four of The Wheel of Time
- De: Robert Jordan
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Better than its predecessors
Revisado: 04-26-05
I have been lukewarm at best about most of the series so far, as Jordan's penchant for exhaustive repetition is nothing short of maddening, but in this book he manages to drop it (along with the omnipresent adolescent angst that manages to overshadow every significant event by burying it under a mountain of triviality) long enough to achieve a few moments with some genuine emotional resonance. To avoid posting any spoilers, I will refrain from specifics, but the most poignant are the moments of history that Rand views, and they succeed where so many other efforts by Jordan fail because he--probably unintentionally--drops his usual writing devices and gets out of the way to simply narrate the events for us. The contrast between this part and most of the rest of the series is really amazing, and shows just how strongly we can feel the emotions of the moment without having to have it spelled out repeatedly for us both before and afterward. It's unfortunate that Jordan seems to trust the intelligence of his readers so little.
So kudos to the author for some really great moments in this book (there are one or two more, but I cannot describe them without giving things away). I wish there were more like them throughout the rest of the series.
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A Game of Thrones
- A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1
- De: George R.R. Martin
- Narrado por: Roy Dotrice
- Duración: 33 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 147,209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127,853
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 127,604
Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse - unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrible editing, though...
- De Kristie en 05-09-13
- A Game of Thrones
- A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1
- De: George R.R. Martin
- Narrado por: Roy Dotrice
Absolutely incredible
Revisado: 12-22-04
This is one of the best series of books I have had the pleasure of reading. It is entirely riveting and engaging, masterfully plotted, and the narration is fantastic. I cannot remember the last time I was so engrossed in a book and so caught up in the lives of the characters in the story. The author's ability to tell a real story with real consequences rather than feel-good fairy tales is both refreshing and utterly astonishing.
There are not enough superlatives for these books. They are glorious.
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Xenocide
- Volume Three of the Ender Saga
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,192
Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults.
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5 out of 5 stars
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full of passion
- De David en 06-13-04
- Xenocide
- Volume Three of the Ender Saga
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
Not great
Revisado: 08-08-04
After enjoying Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, I thought this story was overrated and didn't measure up to its predecessors.
In his afterword, Card mentions that his two concerns about the book are that it is heavily philosphical ("talky") and that it cuts out in the middle of the story arc, but neither of these were really an issue to me. I've read plenty of series that ended leaving the reader hanging and dependent on a following book, and I've read books that were very philosophically idea-heavy. The problem with Xenocide is not that it's too full of ideas that it spends a lot of time considering, it's that it's actually pretty thin on ideas, but it recycles those few in variations and belabors them to an exasperating degree. It is mostly populated by characters who are emotionally static and spend far too much time repeating themselves at each other, and it doesn't take long before that starts becoming tedious. Coming on the heels of Speaker for the Dead (a superior and deeply moving story in which nearly every character realizes significant emotional changes) as this book does, it feels dull and lifeless and long.
On top of that, I thought that one of the major plot developments toward the end of the book that leads into the next one was nothing short of silly and contrived. I don't want to spoil any secrets for people who haven't read it yet, but I think those that have read it will probably know which one I'm talking about.
I am currently torn between what is at this point an admittedly not-huge curiosity of what happens to resolve the story and a real reluctance to take the chance of having to sit through what may turn out to be a similarly tiresome exercise to get there, particularly because I know that it's going to heavily revolve around the aforementioned plot device from this book.
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King Solomon's Mines
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Allan Quatermain, a middle-aged big game hunter, is invited to join Sir Henry Curtis on an expedition to find Curtis's estranged younger brother George in the remote jungles of Africa. George had left home 2 years earlier, in search of Solomon's Mines, where legend had it that the great Biblical king had untold treasures. Quatermain agrees to accompany Sir Henry, in return for half the treasure and financial security for his son, and the men are joined by Captain John Good, who has medical training, and Umbopa, an enigmatic native who seems to know more than he lets on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A ripping yarn, narrated by a master
- De Catherine en 06-06-05
- King Solomon's Mines
- De: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
Very enjoyable
Revisado: 06-07-04
I had a lot of fun with this book. It is, of course, somewhat dated in its style and attitudes, but these lend, in my opinion, a kind of antiquated charm to a solid story of high adventure. Patrick Tull's narration seems to me to be a perfect fit with the material, and I would enjoy hearing more of his work. I highly recommend this book.
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