Gladys S. Whitney
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The Accidental President
- Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Tony Messano
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,309
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,003
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,995
The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 11-14-17
- The Accidental President
- Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Tony Messano
Narrator should look up pronunciations
Revisado: 11-09-21
Loved the book, but was persistently annoyed by the carelessness of the narrator in mispronouncing names and words. He was otherwise quite good. I thank the author for teaching me so many important facts and stories of our history.
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Charm City
- Tess Monaghan, Book 2
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 789
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 615
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 613
PI Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular sport. Business tycoon Wink Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball to town - until a devastating expose appears in the Baltimore Beacon Light. The newspaper's editors thought they'd killed the piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink, who's found dead in his garage. Tess is hired to find the unknown hacker who planted the lethal story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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On of my favorites
- De BJG en 05-05-10
- Charm City
- Tess Monaghan, Book 2
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
Tell the reader to get a dictionary
Revisado: 08-09-17
This is a good story about a highly literate woman. People who read-like one of Charm City's minor characters-often mispronounce words they've never heard. That's fine, even admirable. But these readers get PAID to read aloud. They shouldn't mangle pronunciations by the dozen as this woman does. If she doesn't have a dictionary, I bet she has a smart phone and could google unfamiliar words. And let me note that these are not arcane vocabulary examples: high school words, not grad school. It's deeply annoying.
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Mansfield Park
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Maureen O'Brien
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Mansfield Park, the idyllic Bertram family estate, becomes home to a poor young relative, Fanny. In this wealthy world of social accomplishments and flirtations, the sensible Fanny finds herself out of place, yet secretly in love with her cousin, Edmund. Jane Austen employs her unerring wit to brilliantly capture the social and moral values of an English society at a time of great upheaval.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator misses story's subtle tones
- De Hadley B Cabral en 08-30-07
- Mansfield Park
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Maureen O'Brien
It's Jane Austen, so....
Revisado: 01-22-16
If the reader hadn't adopted falsetto voices for several characters, I'd have thought her excellent. But I'm picky and that got on my nerves.
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Dispatches from Pluto
- Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
- De: Richard Grant
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 736
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 657
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 646
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved this
- De Gladys S. Whitney en 01-20-16
- Dispatches from Pluto
- Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
- De: Richard Grant
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
Loved this
Revisado: 01-20-16
I am from the Delta and returned to the South at nearly 60, so I felt lucky to get this intelligent and constructive take on its deep flaws and equally deep virtues of the region.
The reader was good, but here-as so very often with Audiobooks, I do wonder why neither the reader nor the director bothered to pick up a phones , call a local library and learn how to pronounce the names of the places in which they purport to live. I find it sloppy and almost insulting to both listeners and the natives of whatever area or city the mispronunciation a affect. This is so common that I feel a bit uneasy about complaining of this otherwise fine rendition. But the reader did manage to mangle almost every place name he mentioned, and I found this so irritating that it bit into my pleasure and my ability to focus on the writer's words. Audible, please tell someone to pick up a phone for place names -or a dictionary in the case of unfamiliar words-so that pronunciations are correct. Aren't these people supposed to be professionals?
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