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The Moscow Club
- De: Joseph Finder
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 138
Assigned to examine a portentous tape sneaked out of Moscow by a mole, CIA Kremlinologist Charlie Stone finds himself in an espionage investigation of staggering complexity. As he hops among three continents, often the target of both the KGB and the CIA, Stone succeeds in vindicating his father, branded a traitor by McCarthy, while nosing out a plot by the head of the KGB to stage a violent coup during a Moscow summit that will end glasnost and set the world on its ear.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Chock-full of US-USSR history. Way too chock full.
- De Richard Delman en 03-10-13
- The Moscow Club
- De: Joseph Finder
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
Finder at his intriguing best
Revisado: 10-18-22
An excellent mix of suspenseful fiction & historical fantasy. A few albeit timely observations about Ukraine. The reader Eduardo Ballerino is a master & never fails to please. (Finder is not as literary as Martin Cruz Smith; Finder is more escapist & here he’s at his escapist best).
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The Kite
- De: William Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: John Mills, George Cole
- Duración: 28 m
- Grabación Original
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General3 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 23
W. Somerset Maugham's The Kite was first published in 1908. John Mills plays Ned Preston, a prison visitor, who cannot understand the psychology of an inmate, Herbert Sunbury, played by George Cole. Herbert is torn between a fiercely possessive mother, his young wife Betty and his beloved kite.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor audio
- De Katherine Clark en 03-07-24
- The Kite
- De: William Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: John Mills, George Cole
Brilliant Radio Play: powerfully conveyed its time & place..
Revisado: 09-21-21
I greatly enjoyed this radio performance of Somerset Maugham’s The Kite. It put me back into a cozy English abode, sitting warmed by a fire in the hearth. Smoking a pipe. Thinking what an ofd lot we humans are. But thinking that in tune with the voices & rhythms of that far away time & English place. The recording was not poor but just right to convey the time & place of the story it unspooled
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A Suspension of Mercy
- De: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 640
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 589
In A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What??
- De Keedee en 02-19-18
- A Suspension of Mercy
- De: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
A virtually unknow Highsmit, probably early.
Revisado: 09-05-21
A spellbinding listen. A bit more superficial that Stragers or Riply, but does not disappoint
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Death in Her Hands
- A Novel
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 247
While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg get ON with it
- De Nicole Dreyfus en 06-24-20
- Death in Her Hands
- A Novel
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
Genius use of language, clever plotting.
Revisado: 09-11-20
Great narrator! My Year of Rest & Relaxation is also great & very apt this day of 9/11
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Nightwing
- De: Martin Cruz Smith
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 322
A community in the southwestern United States falls prey to a plague of vampire bats with a virus which compels them to feed on everything in their path. Martin Cruz Smith, author of the best-selling novels, Gorky Park and Polar Star, mixes Indian mythology with virology in this masterful thriller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite books
- De KAREN en 09-12-12
- Nightwing
- De: Martin Cruz Smith
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
Excellent in every way.
Revisado: 05-12-20
Cruz is great at detail & insights into other cultures.
The performance was excellent.
Cruz’s writing is smart, clear, literary.
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No Country for Old Men
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,573
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,047
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,038
Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, engrossing, frightening.
- De P. Giorgio en 07-27-13
- No Country for Old Men
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
Much stronger than the movie. At once intense, adventurous, & a philosophical reflection on the terrible soulless violence...
Revisado: 06-06-18
The book is a reflection on the state of our times through the eyes of a crusty, aging West Texan sheriff. His conclusion that all the new totally conscienceless, soul-less violence is so unintelligible because there are a new type of people now...
His reflections on how all of our choices, not fate, have led each of us to where we have come...
The most evil and honest person in the story (Shuger) is somehow the most rational & deliberative (not to say good).
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The Crossing
- The Border Trilogy, Book Two
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,583
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,421
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,419
In the late 1930s, 16-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat lightning - a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there".
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4 out of 5 stars
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NOW WE MAY SPEAK OF MADNESS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-15-16
- The Crossing
- The Border Trilogy, Book Two
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
A great work of literature & wonderfully clear
Revisado: 05-15-18
I loved this novel, the second in The Border Trilogy, the first being All the Pretty Horses. The incredible details and manners of a Mexico we never new. It’s gritty and granular like its desert landscapes. The characters are deeply drawn. Wonderfully read by Poe. Good & Evil are at one another, but they’re always human.
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People Who Eat Darkness
- The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,993
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,671
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,678
Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucie’s desperate but bitterly divided parents. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work as a hostess in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo really involve?
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the audiobook against I rate all others.
- De El_Ron en 03-08-13
- People Who Eat Darkness
- The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Completrly fascinating
Revisado: 03-10-18
This is a completely fascinating case of investigative reporting into a series of murders of Western women in Japan, Japanes police & system of Justice
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Cypress Grove
- De: James Sallis
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthua
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
James Sallis, author of the Lew Griffin detective stories, has been praised as one of Southern literature's most original voices. In Cypress Grove, a murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling. Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself. Now retired to a cabin in a small Southern town, Turner's been recruited by the local Sheriff to help solve a bizarre and gruesome case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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atmospheric mystery
- De gracenote en 11-18-08
- Cypress Grove
- De: James Sallis
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthua
Excellent Southern Gothic
Revisado: 07-27-17
Excellent Southern Gothic. A curious theme is the making & value of B or C movies. As in all good Southern Gothic there is madness at every turn conveyed as the madness in every single life. Madness the current exposure of political life is transforming from fiction to real life.
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A Brilliant Darkness
- The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
- De: Joao Magueijo
- Narrado por: Christopher Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joo Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, the Via Panisperna Boys, who discovered atomic fission in 1934. As Majorana, the most brilliant of the group, began to realize the implications of what they had found, he became increasingly unstable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Magueijo A BRILLIANT DARKNESS not so illuminating
- De ROBERT en 08-18-10
- A Brilliant Darkness
- The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
- De: Joao Magueijo
- Narrado por: Christopher Sullivan
Magueijo A BRILLIANT DARKNESS not so illuminating
Revisado: 08-18-10
It is good to hear of Ettore Majorana. The over-breezingly, if not sloppily, written text disappoints. Maguielio seems to have "learned" much about Majorana by way of gossip and cafe table talk, so it's hard to know what's substantiated and what's not. One virtually gets the impression that although Majorana published virtually nothing his genius thought of "everything." It's good to have the history of nuclear physics, but it's disappointingly sketchy. It's generally well-known that Enrico Fermi was not the brightest/deepest, which Magueijo emphasizes _ad nauseum_. It's quite as if Magueijo wrote this book to correct the (false) impression we get of Italian physics from Fermi, by creating an Italian genius who Magueijo comes just short of saying outranked Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli... The breezy narrator brings out the faults of the book. I'm sure there's a good story there, but Magueijo didn't tell it.
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