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Last Town on Earth
- De: Thomas Mullen
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
The Last Town on Earth centers on the inhabitants of a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they take drastic measures (quarantine) to try and protect themselves from the virulent and deadly flu epidemic of 1918. When a deserting WWI soldier demands sanctuary, events are set in motion that change the town forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thrill for a Reader. Model for a Writer
- De Angela en 03-04-11
- Last Town on Earth
- De: Thomas Mullen
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
was ok- didnt finish
Revisado: 08-09-20
Started reading this because of covid but it strayed so far from the sickness part of the story that I just quit reading it
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Dying Inside
- De: Robert Silverberg
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
In 1972, Robert Silverberg, even then an acknowledged leader in the science fiction field, published a book that was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. More than three decades later, Dying Inside has stood the test of time and has been recognized as one of the finest novels the field has ever produced.
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2 out of 5 stars
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LITERARY TWADDLE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-20-14
- Dying Inside
- De: Robert Silverberg
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
Bleak and wandering
Revisado: 01-30-20
While I acknowledge that this novel is well written there are a few reasons I can only give it a middle of the road score. I was just personally turned off by gratuitous bad language in it. I don't think that it added that much to the story.
At times it's a fun read a good period-piece from the sixties and seventies.
I guess it's appropriately titled "dying inside", as this book is basically about everything dying. it's written from a bleak standpoint, that POV of the main character.
David Selleck talks a lot about his power but he shows precious little that hes benefited from the powers' use in his life.
He ends up being a study in burnt out relationships, the inability to focus, and self-pity.
Beyond all that, it's strange the way the chapters change the tense often and change the setting. At times Sellek, seems to even fall into drug trips or some sort of alternate dimension.
A good book, but one that seems to include more on the symbolic level than I expected.
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The Shadow of the Wind
- De: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,908
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,440
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,454
Barcelona, 1945: Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his 11th birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Have the book handy
- De Rebecca en 07-17-05
- The Shadow of the Wind
- De: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
A deep story, and long
Revisado: 11-14-19
This book is very well-written, has great imagery, and the author/translator uses a wide vocabulary. These are all very good qualities.
The reader is EXCELLENT and does a really good job using voices and inflection.
It's really long, however, and though it turns into kind of a mystery-of-sorts, I still found it fairly predictable.
An enjoyable read, but it seems to take a like of bunny-trails for no apparent reason, and meander around too much.
If you love to get lost in flowery literature, a flair for the dramatic, and deep character development, give it a try.
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