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A must read for anyone who cares about trans kids.

Revisado: 03-03-23

If you care about trans kids and if you want what’s best for them, then you will not regret reading this book.

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Relevant

Revisado: 08-06-16

It is almost impossible to listen to this lecture series today, in the summer of 2016, without noticing the many Erie parallels to the rise of Donald Trump in America.

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A lot of overlap with "The Best of the 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said"

Revisado: 07-30-16

There is a lot of overlap with "The Best of the 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said," also available from audible.com.

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Hard to hear

Revisado: 04-30-16

Many of the excerpts from the Nixon tapes are garbled and hard to understand. It would have been better to have the narrator just read the text.

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Even Better Than Life of Pi

Revisado: 01-21-12

I loved Life of Pi. I'm sure you did too, and that that's why you're thinking about getting Beatrice and Virgil. I thought this book was even better. If you're reading these reviews, then you know by now that the ending of this book is shocking and sad, and that such endings are not for everybody. Perhaps I, having read those other reviews in advance, was inoculated from the shock of that ending, even as I spent the entire book in suspense, knowing that something awful was going to happen before it was over. Perhaps as a result of this forewarning (or perhaps not), I found the ending as brilliant and satisfying as it was disturbing and horrifying.

Prior to that ending, as even the harshest critics of the book here seem to agree, Yann Martel writes throughout with the same beautiful, flowing prose that made Life of Pi such an achievement. It is the audio-equivalent of a page-turner, every bit as much as that earlier book was.

Finally, I also want to praise the pitch-perfect performance delivered by Mark Bramhall. I normally feel that the best that a narrator of an audiobook can aspire to accomplish is simply to stay out of the author's way. But Bramhall narrates with such perfect emotional resonance, endowing each character with so much life and personality, that I believe that anyone who reads only the text version of this book will have missed out on the full experience of it.

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Challenging as an audiobook

Revisado: 01-18-12

I agree with the reviewer who pointed out that, because it is largely a puzzle-book, it is significantly more challenging as an audiobook than it would be in written form. But I would also point out that if you can't handle this book as an audiobook, then you're probably not smart enough to work at Google. If you are considering this book because you really are contemplating a job interview, you will receive these or similar puzzles orally, not in written form. Don't be afraid to challenge yourself by doing something that's a little more difficult. The book is perfectly comprehensible, even without ever actually referring to the PDF at all.

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Gripping, touching, and informative

Revisado: 04-12-11

The publisher's description of this book as "the story of how success happens . . . told through the lives of one composite American couple" turns out to be just a peculiar way of saying, "this is a novel." And it is a gripping, captivating, deeply touching novel. And instead of being a typical fictional story where characters do inexplicable things that they would never do in real life, such as throwing an giant pearl into the ocean or whatever, these characters' thoughts, feelings, and actions are explained through lengthy and fascinating discussions of the latest studies and theories of social science, which are certain to offer you, the reader, great insight into your own life and your relationships with others.

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