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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 30,635
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27,721
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27,655
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- De Billy en 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
Slade, Max Slade
Revisado: 09-27-23
Incredible story, perfect narration.
Interestingly, a pretty good parallel to the cover story of The Atlantic, October edition, ‘ Kenisha From Kentucky’. The urban equivalent of heartache, drug abuse, family turmoil, recovery( or not) and the hatefulnesses and kindnesses experienced by the dogged determined-and the hapless victims.
Kingsolver’s Appalachian story and its characters are insiders’ views of a reality that my relatively ‘better-off’s’ life only rarely gets such a close view of, and I am reminded here that I may not view with enough sympathy. She reminds me to consider how easily one can fall behind, no fault of one’s own.
She left me in tears and stiffened my resolve.
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The Siege of Vienna
- The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent
- De: John Stoye
- Narrado por: Robert Feifar
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
The siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turning points in European history. So great was its impact that countries normally jealous and hostile sank their differences to throw back the armies of Islam and their savage Tartar allies.The consequences of defeat were momentous: The Ottomans lost half of their European territories, which led to the final collapse of their empire, and the Habsburgs turned their attention from France and the Rhine frontier to the rich pickings of the Balkans.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A partial review
- De chris en 12-14-13
- The Siege of Vienna
- The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent
- De: John Stoye
- Narrado por: Robert Feifar
“Interesting” narration…
Revisado: 05-10-23
So many narrators are British. We enjoy their accents and overlook their uniquely “British” mispronunciations of Spanish, French and Italian words because, well, I suppose it amuses us North Americans. Those Brits…
Mr Stoye seems to be an accomplished North American narrator and has a pleasant voice. However, a problem that he persistently exhibited was either the author or the narrator was unacquainted with the term, ‘cavalry’, soldiers who fight on horseback, and the location of Jesus’ crucifixion, Calvary.
I will give him that he is consistent. Never once did he miss an opportunity to refer to the mounted troops as anything other than ‘Calvary’. How could this astounding error have slipped by the editors. Perhaps what was most disturbing was that I found myself anthropomorphizing the appliances, in this case my telephone, and shouting every time he made mention the hill outside Jerusalem when the soldiers on horseback threw themselves against the opposition.
I was able to keep my comments to myself when he used original and interesting pronunciations of other common words. We all need a break from time to time.
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