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The Kingdoms
- De: Natasha Pulley
- Narrado por: Theo Solomon
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 13
The postcard has been held at the sorting office for 91 years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse - Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides. Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter. But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed - a world where English is spoken in England and not French.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Pulley Triumph
- De Ronan Browne en 06-15-23
- The Kingdoms
- De: Natasha Pulley
- Narrado por: Theo Solomon
Another Pulley Triumph
Revisado: 06-15-23
Another convoluted masterpiece.
Naturally, the audiobook version is a bit trickier than an actual book – with such density you’d love to be able to look back and double check something from the previous paragraph. But that’s just the way it goes with audiobooks. I think it’s important, with this book, to concentrate on the place & date at the opening of each chapter as you can often get lost as to your position in time and place 😁
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We Don't Know Ourselves
- A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
- De: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
- Duración: 22 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
Fintan O'Toole was born in 1958. His life covers Ireland's journey out of underdevelopment and domination by the Church, to the country's transformation into the relatively prosperous and tolerant society that it is today. But, along the way, there was a sectarian civil war in the North, which cast a dark shadow over the whole island, and bitter struggles for intellectual, civil and sexual freedoms. This is a very personal history by a writer who is considered by many to be the country's leading public intellectual.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Could not put it down
- De Claire Connelly en 02-22-23
- We Don't Know Ourselves
- A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
- De: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
Great AudioBook; Shite Production Company (W.F. HOWES)
Revisado: 03-05-22
Fintan says it as it is.
He doesn’t pretend to know everything and nor should you or I. But we should all question sacred cows handed down to us by the past, and by present forces. Fintan questions everything. And that questioning leads to obvious answers. It really is that simple.
Read this author; you will be inspired and you will learn to also question the status quo.
All that said, it is nothing short of ridiculous that the production company who made the recording left poor Aidan Kelly looking like a fool when he is anything but! Aidan is a wonderful narrator but he doesn’t speak Irish (read/listen to the book to find out why Ireland belittles all things Irish 😆)
Aidan doesn’t know how to pronounce Irish words or place names. This doesn’t reflect badly on him or on Fintan – they are NOT in control here; the production company is at fault for being too lazy (or too stingy) to stump up a few quid for an Irish language advisor. I’ve no idea how much they charge but even at €250/day this should have been an essential budget line item.
My advice is not to allow this to deter you from buying this audiobook – if you speak Irish, you’ll have a good giggle and, if you don’t, it matters not.
The book is wonderful, the narration is wonderful. The production company are lazy. I went hunting just now and it took me 20mins hard effort to even locate them: W.F. HOWES. Funny that they turn out to be English – a possibly colonial reason why they are happy to take our money for a sub-par product? I noticed a link on their website called “Quality Policy”. Guess what? It leads to a 404 Error:
“Page Not Found
Sorry, the page you’re trying to view does not exist”
I rest my case 😁
Enjoy the book, readers; W.F. HOWES, wake up, cop on, pull up yer socks or leave the business.
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Another Now
- Dispatches from an Alternative Present
- De: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European culture from Plato to Marx to offer us a dramatic and tantalising glimpse of this brave new world, where the principles of democracy, equality and justice are truly served.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting way to put across promising ideas
- De Anonymous User en 10-09-20
- Another Now
- Dispatches from an Alternative Present
- De: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
Essential Reading
Revisado: 11-26-20
As might be expected, I found it difficult to catch on at the beginning but, once the main characters and premise had been well and truly stated, I was rapt with excited attention as Varoufakis’ revealed his alternate to our dreadful present of unfettered capitalism. I dream that this might become a reality...
Well done Yanis!!!
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