Joyce M. Bernheim
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- De: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 262
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 262
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard to endure
- De Michael D. Busch en 09-09-18
- How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- De: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
Extremely Thought Provoking
Revisado: 07-27-18
I came to this book as someone who has a post-graduate degree in a European literature and is now deeply immersed in the research on autism. I learned a lot from it and found its main concepts to be entirely consistent with what other disciplines are discovering about social interaction (of which language is but one type). I truly appreciate the efforts of scholars to share the complexities of their fields with lay readers.
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Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,507
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,344
Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
- De Joyce M. Bernheim en 12-30-16
- Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
Revisado: 12-30-16
What did you like best about Moonglow? What did you like least?
Michael Chabon is Jewish. I'm Jewish. If the narrator is Jewish, you could have fooled me. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be a problem, but when the novel's narrator and subject matter is avowedly Jewish but the audiobook narrator sounds like he's never hung out with Jews or been inside a Jewish place of worship (therefore mispronouncing Hebrew words in a way that even the most occasional of synagogue- or temple-going Jews would experience like fingernails on a blackboard), the performance becomes a distraction. Too bad. The novel is great. It deserves better.
Would you be willing to try another one of George Newbern’s performances?
No.
Any additional comments?
NO AUDIOBOOK SHOULD BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC THAT HAS NOT BEEN LISTENED TO BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE ALL ENGLISH WORDS CORRECTLY AND ALSO HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE WORDS IN OTHER LANGUAGES THAT APPEAR IN THE TEXT. Really, it's not that hard.
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