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The Dream Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.
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The next parable of the sower
- De Jess en 03-18-25
- The Dream Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
Great narration; good concept; dull writing
Revisado: 05-27-25
This book was more plot-driven than I prefer. And I found the main character exhausting and dislikable.
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- De James en 04-06-24
- Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
Outstanding
Revisado: 01-23-25
Great story and FANTASTIC narration. Lately of a book doesn't hook me within the first half hour of listening, I simply stop. With this book I had the opposite problem. I couldn't stop listening. The way the narrator depicted each character was wonderful and nuanced. One of those rare books where I think I got more out of listening than i would have from reading it.
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Admiring Silence
- De: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined—the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return, he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, the barriers come down in Zanzibar and he is able and compelled to go back.
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WOW. Fantastic book; perfect narrator
- De MAJ_lawyer en 05-01-23
- Admiring Silence
- De: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
WOW. Fantastic book; perfect narrator
Revisado: 05-01-23
I have both the paper book as well as the audiobook. This is one of the few times that an already incredible novel is, somehow, made even better through audio. You could hear the sly sparkle or sarcasm in the narrator's voice. The novel itself is fantastic. It literally made me laugh out loud at some points and choke back sadness at others.
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The Story of a Brief Marriage
- De: Anuk Arudpragasam
- Narrado por: Ronny Matthew
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga.
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Different but touching
- De Sonja Akpinar en 12-05-23
- The Story of a Brief Marriage
- De: Anuk Arudpragasam
- Narrado por: Ronny Matthew
high hopes and disappointed
Revisado: 04-23-23
This book was underwhelming at best. One of those books where each moment is the biggest or worst or whatever-est moment ever. Until the next page, where the same hyperbole gets repeated. Took away from any potential profundity.
Also, PLEASE get someone who can pronounce our names!!! It's Ganga like "gun-gah," not "gaahng-ah." Not hard. It's a beautiful classic Tamil name—please don't butcher it.
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Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
- De: Jenny Lawson
- Narrado por: Jenny Lawson
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the Best Possible Way), Jenny brings listeners along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.
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The perfect follow up
- De Anonymous User en 04-07-21
- Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
- De: Jenny Lawson
- Narrado por: Jenny Lawson
Just what was needed right now
Revisado: 07-15-21
This is the opposite of what I normally read, if book genres have opposites.
But this was perfect for right now. Frivolous sometimes, over the top sometimes, laugh out loud funny sometimes, and earnest always. Recommend for an easy weekend listen that’ll leave you feeling better about everything.
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A Promised Land
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 29 h y 10 m
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Color me grateful.
- De Angela en 11-19-20
- A Promised Land
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
More like modern history than memoir
Revisado: 01-21-21
I don't read memoirs. So I was happy to find that this book was more like an easily digestible historical account of these years than a memoir about maudlin personal troubles. Biased rendition of history, I’m sure, but still excellent.
Btw, all of the jokes about how s-l-o-w-l-y he reads his book are true. I listened at 1.5, and it was just right.
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
WOW— and I don’t even like nonfiction!
Revisado: 10-11-20
The content, language, and narration were all perfect. Do listen all the way through to the Epilogue and Afterword. The author brings us from his birth to present day. If you’re like me and prefer literary fiction, don’t worry — you will love this book.
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Little Fires Everywhere
- De: Celeste Ng
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
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Boring and Drawn Out!!!
- De M. Ryder en 10-05-17
- Little Fires Everywhere
- De: Celeste Ng
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim
Very teeny-bopper
Revisado: 04-15-20
The story is fine. The writing is accessible, though lackluster. It's a quick read. Easy but not particularly moving.
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NW
- A Novel
- De: Zadie Smith
- Narrado por: Karen Bryson, Don Gilet
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Somewhere in Northwest London stands Caldwell housing estate, relic of 70s urban planning. Five identical blocks, deliberately named: Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke, and Russell. If you grew up there, the plan was to get out and get on, to something bigger, better. Thirty years later ex-Caldwell kids Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan have all made it out, with varying degrees of succes - whatever that means....
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I believe this book is best listened to than read
- De BowedBookshelf en 09-28-12
- NW
- A Novel
- De: Zadie Smith
- Narrado por: Karen Bryson, Don Gilet
Fantastic book. Fantastic narrators.
Revisado: 06-01-19
This was the rare book that is as good as an audio book as it is on paper. I loved every bit of it. Complex without being complicated. Perfect.
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- A Novel
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Arundhati Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety - in search of meaning and of love.
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Author narration does not work for me
- De Amazon Customer en 06-18-17
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- A Novel
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Arundhati Roy
Too much going on
Revisado: 02-28-19
This was basically a stringing together of various liberal Indian "issues", barely strung into a disjointed novel. It could have been a wonderful collection of short stories. Or another one of her magnificent books of nonfiction essays. I love her essays and her sociopolitical works. But she tried too hard to turn that into a novel here. From a literary perspective, this book felt contrived.
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