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Full of rich vocal character

Revisado: 06-19-22

My daughter loved the voices! Full of spirit and character. The book has sooo much not included in the movie. The back story to the flying monkeys, the witch’s wolves, and the porcelain people are worth the listen. Written in 1899, you can hear the precursors to Dr Seuss’s language and Batman’s Joker. The work must have been mind-blowing to reader’s in that time period.

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"The pavement of Rome was like living skin."

Revisado: 11-19-21 El oyente recibió este título gratis

"The pavement of Rome was like living skin". Found myself transported into and surprisingly engaged with an ancient Roman waterworks project and its players! Nonius the engineer, is tasked with placing a sculptural waterworks project through a cluttered seamy part of town. But the digging, pipes and precious water introduce an ecosystem of well-developed, fun Roman characters. "Opening up a street in Rome was like tearing open a scab."

Initially, the tension revolves around the mysterious watery engineering job that's extremely well-paid. Grippers and Senators suddenly appear onto the landscape. Then an enigmatic and magnetic young girl named Amaris - is she slave? free? - enters the stage, like a lever that upends the blocks of established power structures and rigid roles.

Nicastro confidently sets the historical and, if needed, philosophical setting for each scene with a light quick hand. He follows with well-researched external details that give smell of almonds on the food and feel of stone and concrete. The details don't bog down into didactic heaviness. His characters thoughts, feeling, and choices flow through the elaborate pipelines of Roman social stratification - slaves, servants, shopkeepers, Senators, Grippers. Nicolas keeps the story flowing.

I'm a student of history and rarely a consumer of historical fiction. Mostly I enjoy science fiction and magical realism. I was a little shocked at the detail of a few scenes of steamy intimacy and violence, but that's a personal reaction. The narrator is solid, with a pleasing tone. I enjoyed listening to it at a faster pace (1.2-1.4x), which is the case for almost all of my audiobooks. Would I ever relisten to it? Absolutely

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Ngondro delight

Revisado: 08-28-21

If you’re a practitioner of ngondro or Tibetan Buddhism, this is an invaluable guide to the nuances and complexities. Very honest. “Eventually you grow bored of your practice…” and then followed by advice, small ways to keep your accumulations and visualizations fresh. Full of unexpected grace, I found it answered many questions about ngondro that I hadn’t even put into words. Good narrator, the sound of each syllable rings like a bell.

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Echoes every feeling you’ll have on the AT!

Revisado: 08-18-21

Bryson consistently finds a way to tease out a single detail, either personal, historical or natural, and pulls on it in to your bones and your gut. It’s a personal story that moves into meditations on natural and human history, always with a reminder that odd moments happen because we are magnificent and odd.

As someone who has hiked the AT, everything you will ever feel on trail for any reason is shared with absolute honesty and eventual dignity.

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Brainy, brash, and beautiful

Revisado: 11-29-20

As a Father with a teenager and a four year old, I would recommend anyone raising girls to hear this, contemplate it, and share it. Howls with intelligence and fearlessness for a moment of truth that is beyond intellect and beyond politics.

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Like Dune in the Himalayas

Revisado: 07-14-20

Imagine Dune set against the snowy Himalayas instead of a desert planet and “spice” as a sacred hidden land prophesied thousands of years earlier. My favorite Audibel experience. As a dharma practitioner, a wilderness guide and a reader of fables to my toddler, I found all of it like a blanket made of cloud cover, constantly changing with each detail, but always gorgeous. Smart and understated as in old classics like Kidnapped and Treasure Island, but with fantastic twists from the hidden realms of the Himalaya. Worth a year’s worth of Audibel membership.

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