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The Way, My Way
- De: Bill Bennett
- Narrado por: Sara Brodt
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
I’d never done anything crazy like this before–a pilgrimage walk. I was not a hiker, and I wasn’t a Catholic. In fact, I wasn’t even sure I was a Christian. On the last government census when I had to state my religion, I'd said I was a Buddhist, mainly because they’ve had such a hard time in Tibet I felt they needed my statistical support.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Light and deep
- De Carlos A en 05-01-24
- The Way, My Way
- De: Bill Bennett
- Narrado por: Sara Brodt
Greatly enjoy the humor
Revisado: 03-18-24
Greatly enjoyed the memoir as I was on the Camino that same year. Love the humor, the emotions, the high and lows.
My biggest criticism is that the very talented narrator was a woman. It was jarring every time I would start the narrative and heard the voice of a young, mid-Atlantic, feminine voice rather than the voice of an older, Australian man.
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Breathe
- A Master Diver's Survival Tales
- De: Rick Bettua, Rob MacGregor
- Narrado por: Daniel Grimes
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
Rick Bettua should be dead. Many times over. The retired US Navy master diver suffered a devastating attack by a 12-foot bull shark that shredded his thigh from his knee to his hip. By the time he reached the shore 90 minutes later, he’d bled out, he had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. Yet, emergency medical workers didn’t give up. His miraculous recovery in late 2020 was just the most recent of his numerous underwater life-and-death experiences.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Zzzz
- De Tricia Tamminga en 09-30-24
- Breathe
- A Master Diver's Survival Tales
- De: Rick Bettua, Rob MacGregor
- Narrado por: Daniel Grimes
Great career adventure
Revisado: 08-23-23
Great Navy career full of adventure.
The only problem I had was that the narrator could not pronounce "Commandant" and it jars you out of the narrative every time.
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Walking with Sam
- A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
- De: Andrew McCarthy
- Narrado por: Andrew McCarthy
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 374
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 374
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed an unforgiving landscape, having more honest conversations in five weeks than they'd had in the preceding two decades.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Interesting concept but...
- De Anonymous User en 05-14-23
- Walking with Sam
- A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
- De: Andrew McCarthy
- Narrado por: Andrew McCarthy
Great Camino dairy and father-son story
Revisado: 07-12-23
Exceptional, honest, touching, evocative, I greatly enjoyed this true life experience by a talented writer.
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Ghost
- Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
- De: Fred Burton
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,216
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 992
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 986
For decades, Fred Burton was a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spy craft. As a member of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service in the mid 1980s, he was on the front lines of America's first campaign against terror. Now, in this hard-hitting memoir, Burton emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, world-wise few. Told in a no-holds-barred, gripping, nuanced style, this behind-the scenes account of one counterterrorism agent's life and career is a riveting listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterful, Real-Life Glimpse. Brilliant!
- De Lew en 06-16-08
- Ghost
- Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
- De: Fred Burton
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
Melodramatic, self-congratulatory
Revisado: 12-18-16
With no disrespect to the author's honorable career and his service to America, this book reads like a really bad "hard-boiled"/ Raymond Chandler knock-off novel with melodramatic, over-the-top cliches, breathless dialog, overstatements, endless adjectives, and name-checks for stereotypical 'spy' products like the author received income for product placement. Lots and lots of "patting himself on the back" for being a self-declared "spy" who seemed to spend the vast bulk of his career sitting in an office in D.C. A total of about two chapters of material that was non self-congratulatory writing. Seems to be written as self-promotion of the author's private sectior career rather than a potentially intriguing insider view of the creation of the DSS' counterterrorism section. A disappointment, best read a library loan.
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