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The Boys of Summer
- The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since
- De: Roger Kahn
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 333
This is a story about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a story by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is the story about what happened to the team when their glory days were behind them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic book!
- De Christopher Arthur en 11-19-17
- The Boys of Summer
- The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since
- De: Roger Kahn
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
One of the best books I’ve ever listened to
Revisado: 04-09-20
Sure it’s got sports in it, but it’s mostly about fascinating people and a fascinating time, beautifully told and beautifully read
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Agent Running in the Field
- A Novel
- De: John le Carré
- Narrado por: John le Carré
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,968
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,956
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who writes “unlistenable etc. “
- De Thomas en 11-02-19
- Agent Running in the Field
- A Novel
- De: John le Carré
- Narrado por: John le Carré
leCarre at his best
Revisado: 12-09-19
This is a gem of a novel, perfect for our moment in history, and extremely well performed. I kept delaying reading the final chapter, because I didn’t want it to end.
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
- Stories
- De: Anthony Marra
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Nutcracker's Cosmonautic March
- De W Perry Hall en 10-08-15
- The Tsar of Love and Techno
- Stories
- De: Anthony Marra
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov
An astonishing work
Revisado: 01-29-16
I did not know what to expect from this book but I'm deeply grateful that I listened to it. Beautifully constructed, with characters so real that they frustrated you half the time (as people do), and with a finish so moving and wise that I had to listen to it again several times. I do like books of interlocking stories such as Elizabeth Strout's, as well as stories with international settings. But those are only incidental pleasures to a beautifully crafted work with so much to appreciate moment by moment.
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The Open Boat
- De: Stephen Crane
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
As a well-paid war correspondent, Stephen Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. He and a small party of passengers spent 30 hours adrift off the coast of Florida, an experience that Crane would later transform into this, his most famous short story, in 1898.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth hearing again
- De HamIAm en 09-15-15
- The Open Boat
- De: Stephen Crane
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
Worth hearing again
Revisado: 09-15-15
I first read The Open Boat in college and only remembered that I was astonished when I first read it. I'm so glad that Audible offered it, because it was as astonishing the second time, 50 years later. There is real wisdom in this story, and beauty as well.
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Telegraph Avenue
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Clarke Peters
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 470
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 471
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed, between them, more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart - half tavern, half temple - stands Brokeland Records.
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4 out of 5 stars
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26,784 sq in (and 4.5 miles) surrounded by REALITY
- De Darwin8u en 09-11-12
- Telegraph Avenue
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Clarke Peters
An extraordinary novel, perfectly read.
Revisado: 10-30-12
What made the experience of listening to Telegraph Avenue the most enjoyable?
The characters are rich; the plot held my interest through all the twists and turns; the unique setting of the East Bay is perfectly captured in ways large and small; the descriptions of jazz are marvelous; the dark side of Oakland politics was portrayed better than any journalist has done. Clarke Peters' reading is so marvelous that I can't imagine just reading the book; my wife got used to me plugging my iPod into our stereo each evening saying "You've got to listen this this."
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Heart of Darkness
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 329
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo is superbly narrated by the gifted Ralph Cosham. Also included is "The Lagoon", a story of courage and love in the South Pacific.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Narrator
- De JerryT en 03-09-05
- Heart of Darkness
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
A must read
Revisado: 03-31-07
I have read Heart of Darkness several times over the years, but never enjoyed it more than through this AudioBook. I can't compare this version to the others in Audible's collection, but I can say with certainty that this is one of the great short novels in the Western lexicon. It never fails to grip, yet as its title suggests, goes deeper and deeper in theme as it moves up the Congo. It is also surprising, and a little horrifying, how relevant it still is today. I found myself re-listening to several pages over and over, then playing them for my wife as well.
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