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My Bondage and My Freedom
- De: Frederick Douglass
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
Activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous anti-slavery writers in American history. Following 20 years of enslavement in Maryland, Douglass made a daring bid for freedom in 1838, travelling north via the "underground railroad" before arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would settle. It was not long before Douglass took up the cause of black Americans, risking his freedom through writing and lecturing, and travelling the globe to spread his message.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A detailed account of 19th century US human trafficking
- De juditharthouse en 10-30-24
- My Bondage and My Freedom
- De: Frederick Douglass
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
Horrendous narration
Revisado: 03-19-24
It feels like the narrator doesn't read the complete sentence before beginning to narrate it. He sometimes completely mispronounces words so badly that you need to pause to think about what word was written and meant to be said. Early examples include patent to "pay-tent" and fetish to "fay-teesh." Overall, factoring in tone and cadence it might be the worst narration I've ever heard. To be fair, the material seems to be extremely difficult to narrate.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 39,200
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34,736
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34,667
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- De LEE en 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
Exceptionally well narrated
Revisado: 11-29-22
I thought the narrator did an excellent job choosing tone and pitch. Very enjoyable. listen!
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The Bright Ages
- A New History of Medieval Europe
- De: Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
The word medieval conjures images of the “Dark Ages”. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through 10 centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia, and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Does exactly what it claims to clarify
- De Aaron Rapozo en 12-13-21
- The Bright Ages
- A New History of Medieval Europe
- De: Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
Decent history, tortured metaphor
Revisado: 05-31-22
This work contains several meaningful and interesting revisions to popular history. Overall it is a bit of a jumbled mess. The author does not devote effort to forming a chronological nor any other sort of framing mechanism. Somehow the book undoes itself by its breathless repetition of the idea of bright ages and it's incomprehensible overall structure. The age still feel like an opaque disaster.
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The Immortality Key
- The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
- De: Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock - foreword
- Narrado por: Graham Hancock, Brian C. Muraresku
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6,435
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,670
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5,641
A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Fun ‘Trip’—But Not a Sober One
- De Joshua en 11-28-20
- The Immortality Key
- The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
- De: Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock - foreword
- Narrado por: Graham Hancock, Brian C. Muraresku
Good, drags on a bit
Revisado: 05-02-21
It feels like it could have been edited down by about 25%, but worthwhile nonetheless.
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Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
- How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
- De: Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Narrado por: Adam Boyce
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,666
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,573
You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accompanying PDF linked in the book description
- De Adam Countryman en 03-26-17
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
- How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
- De: Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Narrado por: Adam Boyce
Charlatanism dictated in an undeservedly smug way
Revisado: 09-17-19
The author poorly argues ideas that do not pass common sense or in-depth critique. Rubbish.
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The Gone World
- De: Tom Sweterlitsch
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,009
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,775
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,773
Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship USS Libra - a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows firsthand the mental trauma of time travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an amazing find!
- De Veronica en 03-07-18
- The Gone World
- De: Tom Sweterlitsch
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
Sloppy science fiction in a violent murderfest
Revisado: 07-07-18
Great narration. This is an OK story with poorly executed science fiction elements. If you like thinking about imagined futures, timelines, paradoxes, and the logical progression of fantastic technologies, then this book will greatly disappoint. These subjects are dealt with sloppily, in an often incoherent and unsatisfying manner. If you want a fairly violent and graphic murderfest-thriller, it's probably up your alley.
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