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The Chancellor
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 720
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 632
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, entering politics only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West. In this “masterpiece of discernment and insight” (The New York Times Book Review), acclaimed biographer Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of Merkel’s unlikely ascent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a remarkable leader in these trying times!
- De Doug Easterling en 11-30-21
- The Chancellor
- De: Kati Marton
- Narrado por: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
Narration is hard to bear
Revisado: 11-27-24
As a native German, or anyone whose first language is not English, the narration is hard to bear. How dare a publisher hire a narrator who is so arrogantly unconcerned with how names should be pronounced, not to mention whole phrases. Just one example: the German city of Bayreuth, which hosts the annual Wagner festival, is pronounces like the Lebanese city of Beirut. Was there really no one to be found who is a native German speaker? And if not that, how about some coaching? While the voice is pleasant and in its softness fitting to the character of the biography, why does she have to speak so monotonous that you wonder whether it is an automated voice.
The book itself puts together everything that is readily accessible about Merkel. Not many surprises for German readers but a good compilation for an American audience and an introduction into German mentality at the same time. Merkel's story painfully makes us all long for those years when morality was the north star.
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Heimsuchung
- De: Jenny Erpenbeck
- Narrado por: Jenny Erpenbeck
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Ein Haus an einem märkischen See: Es ist der Schauplatz für fünfzehn Lebensläufe, Geschichten, Schicksale von den Zwanzigerjahren bis heute. Das Haus und seine Bewohner erleben die Weimarer Republik, das Dritte Reich, den Krieg und dessen Ende, die DDR, die Wende und die Zeit der Nachwende. Jedem einzelnen Schicksal gibt Jenny Erpenbeck eine eigene literarische Form, jedes entfaltet auf ganz eigene Weise seine Dramatik, seine Tragik, sein Glück.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing reading by the author
- De Ann M Toebbe en 05-28-24
- Heimsuchung
- De: Jenny Erpenbeck
- Narrado por: Jenny Erpenbeck
Awful narration!
Revisado: 09-15-23
How much more I would have enjoyed this book with a good narrator! It’s rare that authors are good narrators. Why not make use of trained actors?
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All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Zach Appelman
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65,261
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58,051
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58,009
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Afraid to Write a "Less-Than-Positive" Review
- De Elizabeth en 08-06-14
- All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Zach Appelman
lacks proper pronunciation of French and German
Revisado: 01-29-15
Would you listen to All the Light We Cannot See again? Why?
No, I would rather read the book.
Any additional comments?
I cringed at the awfully bad pronunciation of German and French words and sentences, sometimes barely intelligible. I have listened to other books before where I have enjoyed being drawn into the world of a foreign country by the narrator's professional pronunciation. This one is appallingly bad. I am a native German speaker, and proficient in French.
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