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Polostan
- Bomb Light, Book 1
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 358
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Political Intrigue, Science and Polo in the Cold War
- De Bouncybrit en 10-19-24
- Polostan
- Bomb Light, Book 1
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
10/10 on rich character, cracking plot and action, and profound scientific and political history!
Revisado: 11-03-24
What a character is Aurora!!! Stephenson has grown and leveled up; hard for me to say, since I love his entire body of work so much. But he excellently treats this history of the USSR (and underground history from the US Great Depression.)
(You can read a novelization of the same period and an American woman and her offspring, like Aurora an American communist (but Aurora is learning the hard way) in Sana Krasnikov’s _Patriots_, also set in both Magnetogorsk and back in the USA, so coincidentally similar to the events and settings of Polostan!)
Aurora strikes me as an improved, deeper treatment of the heroine America Shaftoe from Cryptonomicon.)
I love this whole novel.
I believe Dick is Richard Feynman, which means he is 15 years old when Aurora meets him.
Fantastic capture of Physics and realistic, accurate capture of the scientific process and zeitgeist in the 1930s, leading up to the invention of the atomic bomb. I suspect that’s where this series is going. I’m all in!
One tragic flaw in this audiobook: unforgivable mispronunciations of the Russian names, throughout. Like nails on chalkboard.
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The Course of Love
- A Novel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,104
We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as "happily ever after". The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, much needed retooling of the expectations and realities of Love
- De Lydia en 07-04-16
- The Course of Love
- A Novel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt
More intelligent than I believed possible
Revisado: 10-02-16
I got rewards of reflection, insight and self-discovery immediately, and throughout this book.
It has made me even happier with my marriage.
When I began the book, I was disappointed by its inadequacies as fiction - lack of drama, characterization, conflict / plot...
it took me at least a few hours to get past my criticisms.
This book won me over and improved my life and love.
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