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The Fox Wife
- A Novel
- De: Yangsze Choo
- Narrado por: Yangsze Choo
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 465
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 418
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 418
In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant storyteller!
- De BAE en 02-16-24
- The Fox Wife
- A Novel
- De: Yangsze Choo
- Narrado por: Yangsze Choo
Beautifully Written and Performed
Revisado: 02-18-25
Eloquent and thoughtful. Satisfying to listen to over and over. It would be interesting to hear more about these characters. Highly recommend.
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The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- De: Zoë Schlanger
- Narrado por: Zoë Schlanger
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 401
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining perhaps but not science.
- De Jerry Miller en 07-31-24
- The Light Eaters
- How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
- De: Zoë Schlanger
- Narrado por: Zoë Schlanger
Deeply Inspiring
Revisado: 08-15-24
There is a satisfying beauty to the interweaving of personal narrative and science she offers. The sense of awe and delight at finding the connections that bring the world we live in to more evident visibility. Thank you for this book.
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This Is Why You Dream
- What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life
- De: Rahul Jandial MD PhD
- Narrado por: Rahul Jandial
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
Dreaming is one of the most underappreciated functions of the human brain, yet our very survival as a species depends on it. In This Is Why You Dream, dual-trained neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial explores the landscape of our subconscious, tracing the latest cutting-edge dream research and brain science to show why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia, and how we can now harness its wondrous powers to improve our sleeping and waking lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended!
- De Ana L. en 03-14-25
- This Is Why You Dream
- What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life
- De: Rahul Jandial MD PhD
- Narrado por: Rahul Jandial
How Beautiful
Revisado: 06-24-24
I am a lucid dreamer. It never occurred to me this was unusual but the importance of the experience has never been in question. In my dreams, it is possible to explore ideas that would never surface otherwise. The depth of detail and intensity of texture both tactile and visual have given inspiration and resolution to personal and creative circumstances that had been intractable. This book gave me added tools to improve myself and reach further.
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The Snow Queen
- De: Joan D. Vinge
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 343
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 312
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A magnificent performance of an old favorite
- De Nancy en 07-31-12
- The Snow Queen
- De: Joan D. Vinge
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
Swimming in the ocean, surrendering to the forces that made us can be a profound gift. Or you can drown. Choices.
Revisado: 05-24-24
I found this story in 1992 during my senior year of high school as a library aide. My first assignment was to decommission the restricted parental signature section in a brief moment of sanity of our school board in deep red religious state down South.
As a voracious reader, I wanted to understand what was so concerning about a science fiction novel with pretty cover art, as the others were more plainly dangerously close to real life in their content as I had seen the films that had been made of them (Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” and even Jean M Auel’s “Clan of the Cave Bear) This book just seemed an odd item to censor. Why was it there with “Go Ask Alice” or “Catcher In The Rye”….. those were more obviously concerning as options for teen reading. This book didn’t even sound dangerous on the synopsis. Which only encouraged me to read it and every last book in the collection to have more insight to the school board’s thinking. If they were offended, it must be good. It was.
When I finished “Snow Queen” I had an unstoppable urge to read every book Joan D Vinge had written by that time. She did not disappoint. The possible reasons it made the school board’s briefs wad up into a hair pulling knot were deftly folded into the genius of the story. Things conservatives always rage about but set far away into the future. They had a lot in common with the Hegemony.
Ridiculous ideas……certainly no one should know about personal agency and the free will to be bad and good, learning to discern the value of any given decision outside of the dogma of an absent omnipotent being. Opting to live now for every moment of our fragile, beautiful, imperfect and incomplete, short lives instead of waiting to die before being rewarded or punished by some inscrutable and otherwise hands off judge gives us their decision about our lives. Certainly, the idea that god isn’t “God”, only an entity that lives in a different, alien state just outside our comprehension, bound by the same laws of physics must have induced storms of genuflections and tremulous fingering of beaded charm necklaces.
Worst of all, there are constant moral grey areas for the reader to conjugate with the added pressures of alien cultural contexts entangled with the uncertain path choices presented to the characters. Naturally, unconventional, substantive justice not always being defined entirely by the letter of colonial law does come up a bit so that had to be offensive without a doubt. I am certain that what made the book most worth censoring is that it quietly asks the question of who or what does/doesn’t deserve to be loved and what that would look like in a time and world beyond our limited Earth bound view. Loving an AI, clone or space alien must surely unnatural and a sin? What is the role of sex when procreation isn’t the goal? Is it murder when the sentient being, capable of empathy and love isn’t human? Maybe it was the 150 year old lady proposing a three way to her clone’s ex-lover. I dunno. You can be the judge. There were definitely more amusing and morally bankrupt choices presented by the book to make them clutch their pearls but whatever. It’s fiction, right?
Really, the straw breaking the school board’s back would most likely be the book asking the reader to develop their own moral compass. Nothing is more dangerous to the status quo than thinking for oneself instead. So. Read with caution. If you aren’t careful, you might end up thinking for yourself.
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