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The Human Stain
- De: Philip Roth
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: Aún no se conoce
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser.
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2 out of 5 stars
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There's a good story in there. Somewhere.
- De RYAN en 02-14-10
- The Human Stain
- De: Philip Roth
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
The book is far better than the movie!!
Revisado: 03-28-10
As usual, Hollywood did a hatchet job on a good book. I'm not trying to say that this was a great book but the movie that was based on this book was completely lacking in depth or three dimensionality. Where I found this book lacking was in not fully exploring or explaining why the relationship between Coleman and his wife was so bad. Also, I felt that character Coleman was directly inspired by Anatole Broyard, who passed away in 1990, and his story was infamous by the time this book was published. My final complaint about the book was their was no attempt to empathize with Coleman about making his decision to live his life as a white man. Very little is mentioned of the terror that he must have experienced on a daily basis. Even with these faults or as faults as I see them, I still liked the book.
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The Help
- De: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45,745
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30,758
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30,729
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a great surprise!
- De Jan en 12-02-09
- The Help
- De: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
Amazing Characters
Revisado: 08-28-09
Listening to this book was definitely a high point of my summer. I was drawn in by compelling,identifiable characters that I wanted to learn more about.
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Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
- Duración: 21 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,942
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,974
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Anything but middle.
- De Michael en 05-04-03
- Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
Absolutely Fabulous!!!
Revisado: 10-17-08
I love this book on so many levels. From the excellent storytelling to the introduction of the intersex world to the uninitiated, it was wonderful.
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10 Books That Screwed Up the World
- And 5 Others That Didn't Help
- De: Benjamin Wiker
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 428
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 250
You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some merit, but more religious masquerade
- De Aaron en 06-06-09
- 10 Books That Screwed Up the World
- And 5 Others That Didn't Help
- De: Benjamin Wiker
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
A little too preachy!!
Revisado: 10-11-08
I thought the writer has some very interesting theories as to why the world is "screwed up". However, I felt the author took some of the books out of context and many times espoused the ideas expressed in these books to an outlandish absurd conclusion. It is clear that the author's pro-Christian/anti-Atheist views influenced his analysis of these books and possibly conflated the ideas expressed by the books he criticized discounting their revolutionary nature.
Further, the anti-abortion rhetoric would have been more effective if it were a little more subtle. Even though I personally do not agree with the author's point of view in some parts of the book, overall this book provokes thought and discussion.
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