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In a French Kitchen
- Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France
- De: Susan Herrmann Loomis
- Narrado por: Susan Herrmann Loomis
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
Even before Susan Herrmann Loomis wrote her now-classic memoir, On Rue Tatin, Americans have been compelled by books about the French's ease with cooking. With In a French Kitchen, Loomis—an expat who long ago traded her American grocery store for a bustling French farmer's market—demystifies in lively prose the seemingly effortless je ne sais quoi behind a simple French meal.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Did not want to listen to a cookbook
- De Withnail en 09-15-15
- In a French Kitchen
- Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France
- De: Susan Herrmann Loomis
- Narrado por: Susan Herrmann Loomis
Did not want to listen to a cookbook
Revisado: 09-15-15
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Someone who enjoys listening to several hours of recipes.
What was most disappointing about Susan Herrmann Loomis’s story?
Her story was interesting and well written the problem was that about half the book is recipes. It gets very monotonous listening to someone read recipe after recipe. Having said that the recipes all sounded very tasty
What does Susan Herrmann Loomis bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
It was a nice touch having the author narrate the book. There is a certain intimacy to that.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
When the story is about France, her observations about the French, their food, and cooking, it is very enjoyable.
Any additional comments?
I would have enjoyed the book more if I had read it. (And also I would have had the recipes on hand.) The format of this book does not translate well to audio.
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Wild
- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- De: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25,115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21,889
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21,934
At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad I Took the Trip
- De FanB14 en 04-08-13
- Wild
- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- De: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
Horrible Book!!! Horrible Woman!!!
Revisado: 12-30-12
What disappointed you about Wild?
That I paid money to listen to this badly written story about this self absorbed, self destructive, self pitying, egotistical, needy, narcissist. Essentially it is her using the excuse of her mothers death for her own bad behavior.
What was most disappointing about Cheryl Strayed’s story?
That it was not about hiking the PWC (Not that she seemed to even do that much hiking.). She certainly did not even come close to completing the entire trail. Instead it was really just a laundry list detailing her never ending list of screw-ups.(None of which were ever her fault.). Nor was there any growth. Kept listening as I thought that there has to be some redeeming conclusion to this disaster. There wasn't.
Which scene was your favorite?
None.
What character would you cut from Wild?
Cheryl Strayed.
Any additional comments?
I honestly do not understand the popularity of this book. Or how this whine fest is in anyway inspiring. It was painful to listen to this woman go from one stupid situation to the next, to the next; serial cheating on her husband, the subsequent divorce, becoming a junkie, getting pregnant (with another junkie), her flippant passing thought on her abortion, her never ending lack of common sense, her horrific abusive killing of her mother beloved horse...and the list just goes on and on.
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