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Coal Miner's Daughter
- De: Loretta Lynn
- Narrado por: Sissy Spacek
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 660
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 577
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 575
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Oscar-winning, Sissy Spacek-starring film of the same name, Coal Miner's Daughter recounts Loretta Lynn's astonishing journey to become one of the original queens of country music. Loretta grew up dirt poor in the mountains of Kentucky, she was married at 13 years old, and became a mother soon after. At the age of 24, her husband, Doo, gave her a guitar as an anniversary present. Soon, she began penning songs and singing in front of honky-tonk audiences and eventually made her way to Nashville, securing her place in country music history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over the top . .
- De Tracy F. en 07-03-21
- Coal Miner's Daughter
- De: Loretta Lynn
- Narrado por: Sissy Spacek
Pure Loretta
Revisado: 05-06-22
Pure unadulterated Loretta here - straight from the heart. This is an excellent listen, with a great performance by the reader. It's told in no particular order, that is one may pick out any chapter for a great insight into the story of the "Coal Miner's Daughter". Country music fans will thoroughly enjoy this.
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Fireside Chats
- De: Robert Wikstrom - introduction, The Speech Resource Company - producer and compiler
- Narrado por: Robert Wikstrom
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Features Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Fireside Chats that were used to inform and build support for his presidency. From 1933 to 1945, families would gather around their living room radio to listen to the president explain everything from why he was closing banks to declaring war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Experiencing history
- De Marv M. en 06-16-21
Experiencing history
Revisado: 06-16-21
Awesome collection of FDR's fireside chats. These detail steps taken to help the tanking economy during the depression, to how the US is managing and then its entry into WWII. I was thoroughly fascinated listening to arguably one of our finest chief executives.
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Billy Budd, Sailor
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 407
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 412
Written some 40 years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor's charm and good nature put the men around him at ease. Ship life agreed with Billy. He made friends quickly and was well liked, which infuriated John Claggart, the ship's cold-blooded superior officer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good reading of a classic story
- De Johnny en 06-11-07
- Billy Budd, Sailor
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: William Roberts
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Revisado: 07-09-17
This time the movie was better than the book. The author's work was done in a very scholarly, scholastic style which greatly hampered my enjoyment of the listen. Perhaps this was common for the period in which it was written. Uncommon words and phrases not used in present day context brought a grin from time to time. (in a conversation someone would "ejaculate" a response, hmm?) Having seen the movie, I could keep some sort of track as to what was happening, but enjoy? not really. :(
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The Life and Trial of Lizzie Borden
- The History of 19th Century America's Most Famous Murder Case
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: William Crockett
- Duración: 1 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Today, cases are often referred to as the trial of the century, but few could lay claim in the 19th century like Lizzie Borden's in the wake of her parents' murders. After all, the story included the grisly axe murders of wealthy socialites and a young daughter as the prime suspect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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- De Marv M. en 06-20-17
- The Life and Trial of Lizzie Borden
- The History of 19th Century America's Most Famous Murder Case
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: William Crockett
*
Revisado: 06-20-17
So - so telling of the sensational murder and trial of Borden's parents at the turn of the last century. Story is sketchy, not that many details. The reader has great difficulty with the vocal characterizations which also hinders the listener's interest. Thankfully, it is short listen.
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Sycamore Row
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Michael Beck
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29,254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26,269
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26,179
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his Black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly?
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Grisham we all loved from the 90's!
- De CBlox en 10-23-13
- Sycamore Row
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Michael Beck
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Revisado: 06-20-17
Excellent courtroom yarn. Grisham fans should really get into this one. Michael Beck, one of my favorite readers, does his usual terrific job. Well worth my time.
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Ford County
- Stories
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: John Grisham
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,483
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106
John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill. This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America's favorite storyteller.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sad But True
- De Alan en 11-28-09
- Ford County
- Stories
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: John Grisham
Avoid!
Revisado: 05-16-10
Pointless stories, ending abruptly. It's like being left out on the side of the interstate and being told to find my way home. The stories are also fatally weakened by the author's horribly inept reading. There's no feeling or emotion, very juvenile mid sentence pauses; he should leave the reading to those who know what they're doing. I agree with another reviewer, Grisham's been mailing it in for some time now and this hits a new low. Avoid this one!
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A Painted House: A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: David Lansbury
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,011
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,183
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Departure and Yet Another Solid Story
- De Christopher en 04-06-03
- A Painted House: A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: David Lansbury
a good story
Revisado: 05-16-10
This is a story about a family trying to eke out a living raising cotton in rural 1952 Arkansas as told from the perspective of the seven year old son. It's a good story, capably read. After some of the stuff he's turned in lately, it's nice to go back and be reminded how good Grisham once was.
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The Midnight Club
- De: James Patterson
- Narrado por: Robert Forster
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
A stunningly brilliant psychopathic killer who has skillfully eluded the police from London to Paris to New York. A beautiful woman journalist suddenly in grave danger. An unorthodox New York detective whose motive for stopping the killer couldn't be more personal or emotional. With his latest release, the best selling author of When the Wind Blows and Cat and Mouse, turns 1999 into the Summer of St. Germain. You'll listen in terror as New York Cop John Stefanovich pursues Alexandre St. Germain, the most deadly and powerful member of the secret society of criminals known as the Midnight Club.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Writer he is, weapons expert he is not.
- De Michael en 02-19-03
- The Midnight Club
- De: James Patterson
- Narrado por: Robert Forster
Skip it!
Revisado: 01-19-09
Drab yarn about global organized crime, not helped at all by a very poor, one note performance by the reader. Not one of Patterson's better efforts.
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
- The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
Pursuit of Self - Gratification!
Revisado: 03-28-08
Tough to feel sympathy for someone from a broken home doing little more than pursuing their loins desires upon reaching adulthood. The movie covers the last few periods of the book when the author and his young son (fathered by a stripper) try to put their lives back together one last time. I sure hope the movie is better than this was!
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Hope's Boy
- A Memoir
- De: Andrew Bridge
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother - a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him - slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk.
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4 out of 5 stars
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American spilling his guts
- De Anthony en 01-12-12
- Hope's Boy
- A Memoir
- De: Andrew Bridge
- Narrado por: David Drummond
Needs focus and passion
Revisado: 03-28-08
Is this book a plea for help for the homeless? the mentally ill? kids lanquishing in the foster care system? Yes, the author didn't have a pleasant upbringing. It didn't really stir anything one way or another, due to no real plea for anything as this book could have (and should have) been. Bottom line: missed opportunity with a mediocre offering.
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