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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,859
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,372
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,356
In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
- The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Decent, if a bit pedantic. Overly-emphatic reading
Revisado: 10-13-11
Imagine Captain Kirk reading a history book written in the 1950's and you'll get a good idea of what this reading sounds like. Scott Brick is usually a very good reader, I have no idea why he decided to make this book sound so overbearing and massively dramatic. Maybe he felt the story was boring and needed some punch? Whatever his reasons, listening to it made my ears tired and had me wishing for sweet silence after just a few chapters.
The book itself could have used a good editor. There's plenty of incredible information here, and some amazing history that was never taught in schools (but should be), but it seems padded with plenty of fluff and some irritating repetition.
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The Four Last Things
- De: Andrew Taylor
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder's on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. It is as if the child had disappeared into a black hole with no clues to her whereabouts...until the first grisly discovery in a London graveyard. More such finds are to follow, all at religious sites. In a city haunted by religion, what do these offerings signify?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Cranberly en 09-26-05
- The Four Last Things
- De: Andrew Taylor
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
Well Read - I just didn't like the book.
Revisado: 04-20-07
I'm not a squeamish person, I like blood and gore in the right setting (for instance, one of my favorite movies is Pulp Fiction), but this story of child abduction and molestation just was not enjoyable in any way.
I have read other books with similar settings, and they treated the situation in a way that made it suspenseful without being ugly. For some reason, this book was ugly.
None of the characters were very likeable. The child was nice, but never really fleshed out enough. All the other characters, even the protagonists, were just cardboard cutouts.
The writer tried to give each a complex personality, but their failings made them look not more human, but simply stupid, selfish and ignorant.
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