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Half of a Yellow Sun
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Zainab Jah
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,602
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,394
Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a 13-year-old houseboy working for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who's abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Little Background Adjustment
- De Perkbrooke en 03-13-18
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Zainab Jah
Among the best audio books I've heard
Revisado: 01-17-25
I have 175 audiobooks in my library, I would definitely rate it in my top 5. Adichie's novel is a fearless, unsentimental account of a traumatic historical event that also encompasses with great empathy and imagination the personal trials of people who lived through it. Zainab Jah's performance is breathtaking I've never heard a reafer more passionate and virtuosic. I am dismayed that this is her only full-length audiobook.
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London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World
- De: Robert Bucholz, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Robert Bucholz
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,071
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
No city has had as powerful and as enduring an impact on Western civilization as London. But what made the city the perfect environment for so many great developments? How did London endure the sweeping historical revolutions and disasters without crumbling? Find the answers to these questions and more in these 24 fascinating lectures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Walking through London/Two Millennia
- De Cynthia en 11-23-13
Excellent
Revisado: 11-21-24
This lecture series is excellent -- entertaining but not dumbed down. It is so skillfully structured that I found myself compelled to listen to the next chapter and the next as though it was a thriller. Bucholz seems like the kind of professor anyone would love to have -- dynamic, engaging, enthusiastic about and sympathetic toward his subject.
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London Under
- The Secret History Beneath the Streets
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 3 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to penetrate history, and Ackroyd's book is filled with the stories unique to this underworld: the hydraulic device used to lower bodies into the catacombs in Kensal Green cemetery; the door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge that leads to a huge tunnel packed with cables for gas, water, and telephone; the sulphurous fumes on the Underground's Metropolitan Line.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overwrought twaddle
- De L. Thompson en 11-18-24
- London Under
- The Secret History Beneath the Streets
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
Overwrought twaddle
Revisado: 11-18-24
Ackroyd relentlessly drags myth and metaphor and other such twaddle about the underworld into what is otherwise a pretty informative narrative. It finally just got insufferable and I bailed on the book with about an hour left. Narrator was adequate, though.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
- De: Michael Hofmann - Translated by, Michael Hofmann - Afterword by, Alfred Döblin
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the 20th century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephen Dadelus Has Nothing on Franz Biberkopf
- De Quijotic en 04-16-20
Irritating narrator
Revisado: 07-21-24
The translation is written in mid-20th c. London
working class slang. The narrator reads in a relentlessly jocular Cockney (I guess) accent that gets really grating, like a bad imitation of a Monty Python sketch that doesn't end. Dialog is hard to follow as he uses the same tone, pitch and pace for every character. I hate to throw away a credit, but I had to bail about 1/3 in. I'll try and pick up the book some day.
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Midnight Riot
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,937
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,133
Probationary constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I LOVE this Book!
- De Nancy J en 02-26-13
- Midnight Riot
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- De: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Outstanding Narration
Revisado: 06-19-24
The story was entertaining and lively, though not really my thing. Kobna Holdsbrook-Smith's narration, however, was mind-blowing. He created an extremely sympathetic portrayal of the story's narrator, but also made the ancillary characters, male and female, incredibly vivid. I don't think I've ever heard a narrator voice both sexes so well.
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Snobbery with Violence
- An Edwardian Murder Mystery
- De: Marion Chesney
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,063
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,056
When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful - if rebellious - Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart, the impoverished younger son of a baron, to do some intelligence work on the would-be fiance, Sir Geoffrey Blandon.
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4 out of 5 stars
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campy cozy
- De connie en 06-26-10
- Snobbery with Violence
- An Edwardian Murder Mystery
- De: Marion Chesney
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
Clever little story, wonderful narrator
Revisado: 04-04-24
An entertaining comedy of Edwardian manners. Davina Porter's performance rivals those of the great Juliet Stevenson.
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Corrections in Ink
- A Memoir
- De: Keri Blakinger
- Narrado por: Keri Blakinger
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 214
Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice. For the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutal honesty, great listen
- De Enzo G. en 06-12-22
- Corrections in Ink
- A Memoir
- De: Keri Blakinger
- Narrado por: Keri Blakinger
I grieved when this book finished.
Revisado: 11-18-23
This is a deeply personal, empathetic, courageous work. It was all the more moving to hear the author herself read it. This book is incredibly important, but also inspiring and entertaining. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- De: Marlon James
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, y otros
- Duración: 26 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,416
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,199
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,190
Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015 Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Tough Read
- De KP en 05-07-16
Amazing
Revisado: 07-10-23
Literary masterpiece, gripping crime novel. The multiple readers all outstanding , and essential to production.
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