Amazon Customer
- 4
- opiniones
- 0
- votos útiles
- 27
- calificaciones
-
Back to Blood
- A Novel
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Lou Diamond Phillips
- Duración: 20 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 882
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 747
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 751
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Too much. Too much. Too much. Too much. Too much.
- De Richard Delman en 02-18-13
- Back to Blood
- A Novel
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Lou Diamond Phillips
Tops in Narration.
Revisado: 11-04-12
What did you love best about Back to Blood?
It's by Tom Wolfe.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
John Smith was a scream. Will there be a series? Least interesting--the police stuff was pretty dull and drawn out.
Have you listened to any of Lou Diamond Phillips’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Not too much to choose from.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Giselaine's family and lineage.
Any additional comments?
An adeptly narrated multicultural fairytale and police procedural, written it feels on scraps torn from Wolfe’s breathless, young alter ego’s notepad. Each chapter opens with a tango, rap, salsa, balalaika fanfare, etc. I give it an "advanced" PG-13 (occasional attempts at hardcore as seen through the eyes of its innocents and always accompanied by an anti-porn or abstinence message) and a “no irony” warning for the adults.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 2 personas
-
When the Killing's Done
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 237
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 170
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 169
Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the Channel Islands’ endangered native creatures from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert the plans of Alma and her colleagues.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Worth the effort
- De Amazon Customer en 03-13-11
- When the Killing's Done
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
Worth the effort
Revisado: 03-13-11
An icy narrative lacking the intimacy and high drama of prior yarns. Even the caddish Frank Lloyd Wright ("The Women") exacts more compassion than anyone in this book (except Anise's mother, who disappears). Never completely sold on the science or ethics, which come across muddled. Anthony Heald surely shines, but would have preferred the author himself reading it with less fanfare. Doesn't come close to "The Tortilla Curtain," which put the reader, not wild hogs, in the crosshairs. Does offer the usual, brilliant, unparalleled descriptions and narration one expects from T. C. Boyle, making it worth the effort; but, alas, a rimshot compared to his previous masterworks of moral reckoning.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 9 personas
-
The Reversal
- Harry Bosch, Book 16 (Mickey Haller, Book 3)
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Peter Giles
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,920
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,301
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,278
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Brilliantly executed
- De Andrew Pollack en 10-11-10
- The Reversal
- Harry Bosch, Book 16 (Mickey Haller, Book 3)
- De: Michael Connelly
- Narrado por: Peter Giles
Classic Connelly
Revisado: 02-24-11
The John Nash "Prisoner's Dilemma" allusion/silent witness (and its disastrous repercussions) is powerfully constructed. The dungeon episode classic Connelly. The Haller-Bosch interaction no bromance. Haller's turn as prosecutor no walk in the sun either. What is there not to flip over? Well, maybe Peter Giles.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Inherent Vice
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 1,230
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 956
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 953
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the '60s, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Fun Pynchon, don't be afraid
- De Darryl en 08-21-09
- Inherent Vice
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
Martin Cruz Smith on acid
Revisado: 09-18-09
I thought it was brilliant and pitch-perfect. But I guess I'm in the minority. Think Martin Cruz Smith's parade of Muscovites, not on vodka, but blue cheer.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña