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The Marriage Plot
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 52
It’s the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than TV
- De Penni en 12-16-11
- The Marriage Plot
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: David Pittu
Great narration, not sure about the book
Revisado: 12-05-12
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Wouldn't suit all of my reader friends but for some of them yes. It's entertaining in a lot of ways but I felt it a little long winded at times.
What does David Pittu bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He characterises so beautifully, I laughed out loud a some bits. Great narration makes a book for me and David's reading kept me going where if I'd read the book myself I might have given up in the more boring bits!
Any additional comments?
Although I felt the book too long, I still kept with it to the end, partly due to David's narration. It's still a good read, I've yet to read Middlesex but I have it in paper form so we will see if that works for me better as a novel (however, won't have the assistance of a great narrator though will I).
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The Art of Fielding
- De: Chad Harbach
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 25
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. In The Art of Fielding, we see young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College are all that remain of their sporting careers. Only their preternaturally gifted fielder, Henry Skrimshander, seems to have the chance to keep his dream – and theirs, vicariously – alive, until a routine throw goes disastrously off course, and the fates of five people are upended.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Carol en 02-29-12
- The Art of Fielding
- De: Chad Harbach
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
Not just for baseball fans!
Revisado: 12-05-12
As a Brit with no knowledge of Baseball I was a little sceptical about this book but having read some great reviews in the UK press I wanted to give it a try. I am a great fan of American Literature and I find that having a great narrator really makes or breaks a book for me, in this book Holter Graham is spot on for me.
I love the way Harbach is able to wind his way around life drawing us into the characters and through this thread in the baseball elements and make is so very readable/listenable. It reminds me a lot of John Irving (of whom I am big fan) and that is a great plus.
I liked the suspense Harbach uses in some key moments and didn't myself find this too contrived - don't want to add any spoilers so you'll have to listen to the book to find out how the plot unravels and the story ends.
I loved some of the names of the characters too - Henry Scrimshander, Guert Affenlight, Chef Spirodocus, Pella etc, very inventive.
All in all, a great read which I thoroughly enjoyed!
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