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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- De: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 78
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very mixed feelings
- De Paul en 02-27-19
Very mixed feelings
Revisado: 02-27-19
On listening to the introductory chapter I was almost ready to return the book for a refund. I was sure that the narration was a text to speech implementation, wooden and unemotive. It was also introducing an new definition of networking that I had not come across in my 35 years of professional computing.
Liberal use of the skip function has saved me from beating up my audio player by skipping the sections of the book that the author is attempting to spin a history from fragments of facts and drawing massive conclusions.
I did find the history of the development of time sharing and BASIC to be interesting and it was chapters like these that kept me from returning the book.
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The Book Thieves
- The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
- De: Anders Rydell, Henning Koch - Translator
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves, Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An interesting topic but an incredibly dull story.
- De Paul en 02-12-17
- The Book Thieves
- The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
- De: Anders Rydell, Henning Koch - Translator
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
An interesting topic but an incredibly dull story.
Revisado: 02-12-17
It was such an interesting topic. After three hours of listening I tired of hearing the same information being repeated from a slightly different angle.
The forward held so much promise and there were brief glimpses of a story that could have been truely interesting but alas after three hours I was too bored to keep listening.
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The Long Earth
- De: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 299
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 276
The Western Front, 1916. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? Madison, Wisconsin, 2015. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget: a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a potato. It is the prototype of a life-changing invention....
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2 out of 5 stars
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World and not Character Building
- De Amy W en 06-28-12
- The Long Earth
- De: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
- Narrado por: Michael Fenton Stevens
You cannot believe how disappointed I was.....
Revisado: 10-08-12
When you see the name Terry Pratchett on a book it defines a quality of the writing, a plot that while left of field is enjoyable and captivating and characters that you end up being really interested in. This book had none of that. The only reason why I finished the story was that I was hopeing that something was going to happen. What a huge disappointment.
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The Salmon of Doubt
- Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
- De: Douglas Adams
- Narrado por: Simon Jones, Christopher Cerf, Richard Dawkins, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 865
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 864
Rescued from his beloved Macintosh, The Salmon of Doubt provides us with the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time in the uniquely entertaining and richly informative mind of Douglas Adams. For the millions of readers who expressed their grief and shock at his untimely death, this is a treasure; his final book and our last chance to see new work from an acknowledged comic genius.
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4 out of 5 stars
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enjoyable but not well described
- De Ambrose A. Dunn-meynell en 03-19-10
- The Salmon of Doubt
- Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
- De: Douglas Adams
- Narrado por: Simon Jones, Christopher Cerf, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry
This is not the book you are seeking
Revisado: 04-09-12
Would you try another book from Douglas Adams and/or the narrators?
I have read all of the Douglas Adams books from when they were first published.
Would you ever listen to anything by Douglas Adams again?
Yes and No. I greatly enjoyed the Hitchhilers Guide to The Galaxy and have don since its first publishing. It is part of my education.
Would you listen to another book narrated by the narrators?
I was hoping that Stephen fry was going to do more of the narration but sadly not the case.
Do you think The Salmon of Doubt needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
This is the final of the printed works of Douglas Adams. It is a collection of the newspaper columns and thoughts on a disparate topics.
Any additional comments?
Fast forward through the introductions. They are the friends of Douglas Adams telling us what a talented author and great guy he was. While these were great words for his funeral they add nothing to the otherwise great collection of the thoughts of Douglas Adams.
I particularly love the definition of what it takes to ignore someone.
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