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Frankenstein
- Penguin Classics
- De: Mary Shelley
- Narrado por: Colin Salmon, Peter Noble - introduction
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the listener on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely loved this book!
- De Landon en 11-15-19
- Frankenstein
- Penguin Classics
- De: Mary Shelley
- Narrado por: Colin Salmon, Peter Noble - introduction
Not my favorite narrator
Revisado: 11-03-21
I found that the voice of the narrator too gruff for my liking and there was hardly any variation in the tone when changing from one character to another. The rendering of the “creature” was too slow making it boring in parts.
The book is incredibly descriptive and to think that the author was only 19 when she wrote it is quite extraordinary.
The introduction is very interesting and gives many insights to the authors life leading to the publication of her book.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- A Novel
- De: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,953
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,139
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUCH better than I ever expected! Give it a try!
- De Kent en 10-19-09
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- A Novel
- De: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, John Lee, Juliet Mills
Amazing readers
Revisado: 12-05-18
As part of a book club list I was very excited to read this book, I am interested in WWII as both my parents were involved in it. I was surprised that it was an epistolary novel in which there is no direct story but a series of letters from different people through which you can follow the story line.
But the most amazing part of this audio book were the readers, I was fascinated with each character. So well chosen and such a performance, I was transported by each and every one.
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The Country Girls
- De: Edna O'Brien
- Narrado por: Edna O'Brien
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world - of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin – where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where have all the romantics gone?
- De Cynthia en 07-06-13
- The Country Girls
- De: Edna O'Brien
- Narrado por: Edna O'Brien
Author should not read her book
Revisado: 12-05-18
This book was part of a book club list, therefore I did not choose to read it. That said, I started off with the written version and decided that maybe I would progress faster with the recording. I was very excited to see that the author was reading her book, but, in this case I think that maybe she made a mistake.
I did not enjoy her reading, there was no characterization: usually a reader gives each character a different rhythm of speech or tone of voice... in this case it was monotonous, the story being a bit monotonous to start with.
And then there was the BREATHING, this was the most difficult part to handle as I really had to make an effort not to concentrate on the intake of air through the nostrils and listen to the words.
Personally I did not enjoy this book, there were too many unnecessary descriptions of nature, which I found had no positive use to the story, they just made it long drawn out. I think there are sufficient descriptions of the story and the characters, so I will not go into them in this review, except to say that the outcome was very abrupt.
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