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The Terror
- A Novel
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Tom Sellwood
- Duración: 28 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,871
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,389
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,383
The men onboard HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very good then, NOT
- De Randall en 07-24-18
- The Terror
- A Novel
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Tom Sellwood
Long
Revisado: 10-13-23
Dan Simmons is a really brilliant writer, but I feel like he got too enthralled with the characters to tell a good story. All the characters are well thought out, and the suspensful moments are truly nail-biting, but the plotting outside that is super slow. it would have been fantastic had it been half the length
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A.D. 381
- Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State
- De: Charles Freeman
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
In A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of God; all other interpretations were now declared heretical.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dont pass it up
- De brett en 01-21-11
- A.D. 381
- Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State
- De: Charles Freeman
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
Factual but bad
Revisado: 09-29-23
The narration is good except the narrator clearly isn't well versed in the history because he keeps mispronouncing certain names. But my overall issue is the actual author: he basically condemns the leaders of the church for *gasp* not allowing democracy when it comes to theology. He likes to blame Theodotius, but is either ignorant (or doesn't add to it because it proves him wrong) that such a thing happened since the first century. Justin Martyr, Irenasus, Cyrian of Alexandria (just to name a few) believed that theology and our understanding of Christ was set forth by the Apostles thru the Scriptures and were not up for debate (despite them not being as thoughtout pist-Nicea). He when he celebrates Origen, he ignores the fact that Origen believed Christian Gnostics were heretics.
He claims to be unbiased yet truly is not, and his constant condemnation of the early Church for not being Greek philosophers enough got so grating I couldn't finish it.
His facts are accurate, so it wouldn't be a bad start for a beginner, but check your biases at the door
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America's First Female Serial Killer
- Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
- De: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Narrado por: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn’t put it down
- De Jason Hejna en 05-09-20
- America's First Female Serial Killer
- Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
- De: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Narrado por: Mary Kay McBrayer
Narrative non-fiction instead of a case study
Revisado: 10-29-21
Not very good, more narrative non-fiction than a study of the serial killer in question
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Cloudsplitter
- A Novel
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 29 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 98
Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. But within this broader scope, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, of romance and familial life and death that make the listener feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating read
- De James P. Barraza en 08-02-17
- Cloudsplitter
- A Novel
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
Good story, not the best narrator
Revisado: 05-04-18
I love the story of John Brown, so I thought I'd get this. while the story is great and is from the pov of one of his sons, the narrator wasn't that good. It's not that he's a bad narrator, he s a very slow talker. I usually have the reading speed up to 1.5, but even then he was a slow talker. I had to crank it up to 1.8 so that he sounded like a normal human.
still, check it out for the great story
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