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Playing Possum
- How Animals Understand Death
- De: Susana Monsó, Mark Rowlands - foreword
- Narrado por: Lisa S. Ware
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 14
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely intolerable narration
- De K. Arford en 11-03-24
- Playing Possum
- How Animals Understand Death
- De: Susana Monsó, Mark Rowlands - foreword
- Narrado por: Lisa S. Ware
Terrible narrator
Revisado: 11-29-24
This narrator is absolutely awful. Her attempts to emote made me cringe. Cannot listen to it.
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I Am, I Am, I Am
- Seventeen Brushes with Death
- De: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrado por: Daisy Donovan
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 883
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 776
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 768
I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter - for whom this book was written - from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her prose is beautiful!
- De Judy en 03-25-18
- I Am, I Am, I Am
- Seventeen Brushes with Death
- De: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrado por: Daisy Donovan
A Pity About The Narration
Revisado: 04-08-21
The narrator's efforts to dramatize her reading as if speaking to children detracts from the content. I wish I had read this book instead of listened to it. I had to force myself to keep going, never because of the content or writing style of the interrelated stories themselves, but because the narrator was so irritating. Can't a narrator just read, rather than try to perform as if on stage? Ugh.
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Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- De: Olivia Laing
- Narrado por: Sophie Aldred
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the 21st century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Laing makes an inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways of living. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, and their role in our political and emotional lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful text/ very irritating narration
- De Sara C en 06-21-20
- Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- De: Olivia Laing
- Narrado por: Sophie Aldred
Narrator's mispronunciations drove me crazy
Revisado: 06-12-20
Not only is the voice of this narrator unsuited to the story itself -- she sounds very prim and proper, in contrast to the author's words and life -- but she mispronounces words so often that I had to stop listening. Couldn't she at least learn how to say David Bowie's name correctly? It's not hard! Listening to her mispronounce Bowie's name again and again set my teeth on edge. It is not pronounced like the bough of a tree. A pity, really. If this had been the only mispronounced word perhaps I would have been able to soldier on but alas, no. I feel bad for the author having had this narrator represent her book and voice so poorly.
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