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Gideon the Ninth
- De: Tamsyn Muir
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,857
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,413
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,387
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun. Not art, very gory, but 100% fun.
- De Sarah K. en 10-27-19
- Gideon the Ninth
- De: Tamsyn Muir
- Narrado por: Moira Quirk
great creepy fun
Revisado: 09-26-19
Excellent worldbuilding and engaging main character. I had a little trouble keeping everyone else clear without a written Dramatis Personae to reference.
the only blemish is that the writing can be a bit too YA, too modern. if you can get beyond that, it is a terrific read, if not it will pull you out of the story.
The narrator was simply perfect.
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Nutshell
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Rory Kinnear
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,921
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,912
From the best-selling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Long Version, and the Short.
- De Ilana en 09-19-16
- Nutshell
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Rory Kinnear
Very well (over)written
Revisado: 12-28-17
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would not recommend the book to a friend. It is over-wrought and exasperating. This book is a version of Hamlet and despite the flowery language it does not live up to the original.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
I don't think the book would do well as a movie. the strength of the story is the narrator and to re-create it in a movie would require too much voice-over
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Turtles All the Way Down
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: Kate Rudd
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,069
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,863
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,844
Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hate to call it a trigger warning, but-
- De Lynnzee en 10-23-17
- Turtles All the Way Down
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: Kate Rudd
beautiful and affecting
Revisado: 11-05-17
well written and tender, John Green does what he does so we'll. the characters are well written and round the story is tender and real. the narrator does a simply amazing job. if you're a fan of these kinds of young adult books you will love this one.
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Sweet Tooth
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 1,141
Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the operation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Book for your Literary Sweet Tooth
- De Susianna en 11-18-12
- Sweet Tooth
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
Boring
Revisado: 06-23-17
somehow Ian McEwan manages to make a spy thriller boring.
The prose is excellent and the descriptions of people and places are evocative. The characters are fully realises and complex.
the problem is the pacing overall arc. I was left bored and impatient for a climax that never fully arrives.
the reader was superb, the perfect voice to go with the narrator.
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The Handmaid's Tale
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Claire Danes
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44,798
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40,075
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40,051
After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Top Pick for 2012
- De Em en 11-30-12
- The Handmaid's Tale
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Claire Danes
Brilliant and Terrifying
Revisado: 01-14-17
The story is surreal and all too possible. the nightmare state of the world is taken from different parts of history and presented in such a close and intimate way that you feel what the narrator feels. this book is an instructive lesson in fundamentalism gone wrong written in an all too familiar Western idiom.
Claire Danes narrates with wistfulness and vulnerability that fits the narrator perfectly.
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Breakfast of Champions
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: John Malkovich
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,373
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,938
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,929
Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kurt Was Right to Grade This a C
- De Dubi en 01-10-16
- Breakfast of Champions
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: John Malkovich
unique
Revisado: 09-27-16
this book is really like nothing I've ever read. classic, modern, meta, rude, and brilliant.
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Where the Hell Is Tesla?
- A Novel
- De: Rob Dircks
- Narrado por: Rob Dircks
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,932
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,555
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,547
I found the journal at work. Well, I don't know if you'd call it work, but that's where I found it. It's the lost journal of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors and visionaries ever. Before he died in 1943, he kept a notebook filled with spectacular claims and outrageous plans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Had A Blast Listening To This One!
- De Cheri en 08-11-16
- Where the Hell Is Tesla?
- A Novel
- De: Rob Dircks
- Narrado por: Rob Dircks
irreverent fun
Revisado: 11-06-15
this isn't the most thoughtful novel but it is tons of fun and very imaginative.
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