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The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno
- De: Fox Audio Network
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
Each week, Emily Compagno – Co-Host of Outnumbered on The FOX News Channel - will be joined by a team of FOX News Digital true crime reporters, legal and law enforcement experts, along with the latest insights from the FOX News Investigative Team. Emily will bring stories of survival, solved and unsolved murders, America's Most Wanted killers, missing persons, and celebrity crime trials. This podcast will bring the listener into the story, as told by the people involved and those reporting on the ground. New episodes available every Tuesday, along with bonus episodes every Thursday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this Podcast ❤
- De Anonymous User en 08-16-23
Excellent Talk About Family
Revisado: 07-06-23
This was simply a great conversation. It started talking about making mafia movies and how accurate they might be (of course - that was the expectation). But then the topic broadened to include family heritage and how that background passes down strength to strive for success. I'm really glad I listened to this one! Thanks for a good job!
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The Glenn Beck Podcast
- De: Glenn Beck
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Glenn Beck sits down with notable guests to discuss big ideas, inspiring stories, and the origins of the extraordinary people behind them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A mouthful of fresh air.
- De Amazon Customer en 09-30-23
Great Conversation
Revisado: 08-31-21
This is a superb, intelligent conversation. It reminds us that at the time of almost any catastrophe (or even moderate-sized problem), we are almost always worrying about the wrong things.
The struggles of our time are certainly painful, but compared with many disasters in the past, we are truly fortunate in many ways. And the magnitude of our future suffering is NOT inevitable. We can still make choices that can avert many ills - or we can bring them on ever swifter. Which will we choose?
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
- A Novel
- De: Kim Michele Richardson
- Narrado por: Katie Schorr
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21,279
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18,918
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18,810
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything - everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A LOVELY, SAD AND PROFOUND BOOK!
- De Janna Wong Healy en 08-17-19
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
- A Novel
- De: Kim Michele Richardson
- Narrado por: Katie Schorr
A historical novel that teaches history.
Revisado: 08-14-20
Many historical novels, although enjoyable, do little more that use a familiar historical period, event, or person as a harbor to anchor the tale at hand. But "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" gives an intimate view (and to many, this will be a first or only view) of both the Pack Horse Library Project and the Blue People of Kentucky - both mostly unknown today.
Like the best historical fiction, it will prompt many to look elsewhere for further information on both these topics. I think framing this story as a firsthand account of one of the "blues" who is working as a pack horse librarian is brilliant, and leads to many vignettes that serve windows on a life.
It is a daunting task to give a fully real and truthful picture of the particular kind of racism experienced by the Blue People by any writer this many years removed from the understanding of that time period without one of its layers being one of modern sensibility, and I don't thing this book completely accomplishes it. But I think the resulting story is compelling, and its shortcomings should be forgiven.
I read this as an audiobook, and I enjoyed the narrator's accents and how she handled characters of various ages, as well as both men and women. There were only a few words that were mispronounced, but one of these was a bit jarring since it is used many times in the story. The historic voice commands used by riders and drivers of beasts of burden as steering directives - "gee" and "haw" - were used extensively in the story. "Gee up" was also used appropriately as an "attention" or "begin" command. "Gee" is correctly pronounced as "jee" (like "Gee whiz!"), but was unfortunately pronounced throughout the book as "ghee" - the word for clarified butter.
That small quibble aside, this is an excellent read and I highly recommend it.
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Contact
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,675
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,107
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future - and our own.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Technical problems with this recording - skips...
- De Matt en 11-28-12
- Contact
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
A Good (but Flawed) Story and Audiobook
Revisado: 07-31-20
35 years after Contact's publication, there is little I can add as critique of the book, and mostly I'm taking this opportunity to comment on the audiobook. But I will say about the story that I've read it several times, and that I find it enjoyable. This originally surprised me because Sagan (as a well-known agnostic and political liberal) opposed most of my principles as a Christian and a conservative. But I like the story, and I don't think I've read it for the last time either. Although it reflects Sagan's own nature-is-God belief, the novel treats more thoughtful religious life fairly kindly, even as one character (a purveyor of a more narrow religious faction) in the story is given the role of comic relief - which he earns. It's quite interesting that Sagan allows his principal character, Ellie Arroway, a non-religious scientist, to face the uncomfortable skepticism of others (because of her personal experience that lacks hard evidence) as a flip of the usual skewering that most people of faith experience at the hands of agnostic or atheist scientists.
This is not a short audiobook, so it is good to have a narrator with a voice and delivery pleasant enough to listen to for hours on end, and this reader is very listenable. She does not do drastically different voices for the male and female characters, and I actually prefer it this way. She only misses a bit with some accents, especially the president's science advisor with an unfortunate New York-ish caricature.
The biggest problem with the narration is the considerable number of mispronounced words. I had to look up whether the reader came from Britain (she doesn't) because several of these were a misplacement of syllabic emphasis (for example, placing the emphasis on the second syllable of "metallurgy" instead of the first) as sometimes heard from British readers. Some other words or proper nouns are mispronounced because of some level of cultural ignorance (for example, no LDS (Mormon) person would pronounce Moroni (properly pronounced mo-ROHN-eye) as mo-ROHN-ee).
But the most jarring mispronunciation for me is reserved for a word that must occur at least 200 times in the book - the word "primer." This is an unusual word that has different meanings with the same spelling, and DIFFERENT PRONUNCIATIONS among those meanings. The word can mean (1) a binding first layer of paint, (2) a substance or device to initiate ammunition or an explosive charge, or (3) a book or written introduction that teaches one how to read or interpret what follows. The first two are pronounced like PRIME-er, and the third one is pronounced PRIMM-er (at least in American English). The usage in this book is exclusively the last meaning, and it is used so frequently that it could even be considered one of the themes of the middle part of the story. But the narrator used the "PRIME-er" pronunciation, and had me thinking of paint throughout - which was irritating.
Even with this nitpicking about the narration, I continue to recommend reading (and listening) to this book.
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