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The Mistress's Daughter
- A Memoir
- De: A.M. Homes
- Narrado por: Jane Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 56
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Being a good listener rewards in the end
- De Sara en 07-23-08
- The Mistress's Daughter
- A Memoir
- De: A.M. Homes
- Narrado por: Jane Adams
Ancestry buffs and adoptees will like it, but...
Revisado: 03-21-09
Great story...right up until the author started detailing, in excruciatingly minute details, her family ancestor quest. Yawn. Perhaps this is very interesting to people who are ancestry buffs, but I found my mind wandering to what I have next up on my "Wish List". Too bad, really, because otherwise the story was riveting right up to that point in the book. I was also put off a bit by the lackluster narration at the beginning.
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My Family and Other Animals
- De: Gerald Durrell
- Narrado por: Nigel Davenport
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,968
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,656
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,653
This memoir is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy, surrounded by his eccentric family - as well as puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoroughly delightful book!
- De T.K. en 06-21-08
- My Family and Other Animals
- De: Gerald Durrell
- Narrado por: Nigel Davenport
A thoroughly delightful book!
Revisado: 06-21-08
I found this superb, well-written and extremely well-narrated audiobook to be a delight. The tale itself is a riviting "page-turner" unlike any other. And the fantastic reader/narrator truly made me believe I was hearing each and every character very distinctly, as he is a marvel with accents and intonation and deadpan humor. I laughed out loud many, many times as I followed the very eccentric ex-pat English family into - and out of - their adventures in Greece, as seen through their naive and wonderfully animal-crazy young son. I could relate so much to this story, as I was a similar, very curious ex-pat child myself, driving my family to distraction with stray and wild critters I brought home, marveling at each one. But I would recommend this audiobook to anyone, ex-pat or not, at any age above 12, and even whethor or not they've traveled a bit with their families. Anyone can appreciate the quirks of other cultures and people as told in this book. There are many memorable moments in the book, but I will never forget "Boodle Trinketbottom" as long as I live! This book absolutely earns five stars!
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: William David Griffith
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's about time...
- De T.K. en 05-31-03
- Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: William David Griffith
It's about time...
Revisado: 05-31-03
When I finished this audio book, these words came to me: It is about time someone took the mysticism out of the medical community. It gives hope in large doses.
This is a very well written, informative book and very well read by the narrator. As a surgical nurse and patient advocate for 25 years, I have seen a lot and worked with hundreds of surgeons and the entire gamut of every physician type that this author speaks of. Yes, in the early days, with the crazy ones and the fools, I have watched the Good Old Boys Club protect their own even when they knew it was the wrong thing to do. But I have also seen true courage, love for the patients, love for the work, unwavering dedication, astounding skill, beautiful and artistic craftsmanship, and absolute advocacy for a patient's wellbeing.
This book helps the reader rethink the outdated impression that doctors should be deified and thus obeyed unequivocally. That there is as much of a balance of good and bad in the medical community as there is in any community and that, with an educated point of view, knowledge becomes your empowerment to help make the decisions effecting your life. This book instills in the reader the imperative to proactively undertake the partnership we all should have with our doctors regarding our own health care. And most importantly, even when to walk away from the situation if needed and seek out another doctor who will acknowledge the partnership. The doctor/author helps with the reader's understanding that the majority of our doctors/surgeons are, after all, only human and though experts at what they do, are simply doing what we do in our professions every day: do the best you know how with what you have to work with.
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