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Narcopolis
- De: Jeet Thayil
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 12
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay: In Rashid's opium room a young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame as men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. In Shuklaji Street they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But then whispers build of a new terror, something that shifts the tenuous balance of survival for the city's nameless, invisible poor. A rich, hallucinatory dream of a novel, Narcopolis captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling squalor. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets and gangsters, it is a lyrical and unforgettable journey into a sprawling underworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Angus en 07-26-18
- Narcopolis
- De: Jeet Thayil
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Outstanding
Revisado: 07-26-18
Harrowing and beautiful in equal measure. Great storytelling. A wonderful tapestry of characters. Loved it.
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Moby Dick
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: William Hootkins
- Duración: 24 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,759
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,234
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,216
"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, EXCELLENT reading!
- De Jessica en 02-18-09
- Moby Dick
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: William Hootkins
Hyper-Verbose Drivel
Revisado: 07-14-18
Even the truly excellent narration from William Hootkins cannot save this epic snoozefest from itself. To give an indication of what one is committing to when one engages this dirge, there is at least four hours dedicated to the anatomy of various types of whales, and another four to the various features of a whaling boat.
The dialogue between characters is so painfully overblown that I often found myself tuning out for minutes at a time, but when focus was regained I realised I hadn’t missed a thing.
Literally the worst book I’ve ever struggled through. It made me not want to read anymore. Fine for anyone born before 1880 but I’d rather sit through Adam Sandler’s entire filmography than read this again. Good god.
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