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A Small Town in Germany
- De: John Le Carré
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missing—and forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him. Dispatched from the British Foreign Office to investigate, Alan Turner arrives in Bonn to find riots, protests, and a tenuous balance of power. As if there isn’t enough pressure, the embassy’s head of Chancery, Rawley Bradfield, makes it clear he has no intentions of making Turner’s investigation an easy one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Change Of Pace For le Carrè
- De Bruce en 01-27-25
- A Small Town in Germany
- De: John Le Carré
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
Worst narrator ever
Revisado: 11-07-24
Narrator yelling & speeding. And intoning as if he thought listener could not perceive the natural inflection built in to the author's beautiful language, and as if everything needed one or more exclamation points. Often near unlistenable. Awful.
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The Looking Glass War
- George Smiley, Book 4
- De: John Le Carré
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
With the Cold War at a fever pitch, though, a potential assignment is only ever one defector-turned-informant away. Alerted to the possibility of missile activity from the Soviets on the West German border, the long stagnant Department leaps at the chance to restore some of their cache in the intelligence community. Director Leclerc hunts down former field agent Fred Leiser and sends him beyond the wall to East Germany—tying the Department's fate to his.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious, skip this one
- De M. Shults en 03-14-25
- The Looking Glass War
- George Smiley, Book 4
- De: John Le Carré
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Shoddy
Revisado: 10-28-24
The problem is not that it's too negative about spying, or not entertaining; it's that its badly written - phoned in, unbelievable. It's hard to believe that Le Carre wrote it - all of his talents rendered mediocre or worse. Not even AI is capable of something this poorly imagined.
I love his work as a whole; this one was a surprising disappointment
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Lot No. 249
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 561
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 484
Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most significant of which is a 6'7" tall mummy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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YOUR AS WHITE AS A CHEESE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-12-17
- Lot No. 249
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: B.J. Harrison
Excellent, elegant, but ..
Revisado: 12-11-22
A bit too restrained. Hardly frightening. It's difficult to care about cardboard Public School twits. But entertaining.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,550
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,954
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,921
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected, also, that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please delete spolier reviews!!!
- De SM en 12-04-20
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
Near Perfect
Revisado: 09-10-21
Structured to be easy for the writer to decode, Less so for the reader. Either the unintentional result of imperfect empathy - near universal; or a tiny spec of bad faith. The former I guess. Entertaining and engrossing after all.
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The ABC Murders
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,165
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,951
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,939
There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston. With each murder, the killer is gettingmore confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Serial Murder Case Told by Hastings
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
- The ABC Murders
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Hugh Fraser
Top narration
Revisado: 08-23-21
Near perfect fun. A tiny tiny bit contrived but Poirot Poirot even at his least annoying.
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Moby Dick
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: William Hootkins
- Duración: 24 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,749
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,227
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,209
"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, EXCELLENT reading!
- De Jessica en 02-18-09
- Moby Dick
- De: Herman Melville
- Narrado por: William Hootkins
Surprising
Revisado: 07-20-21
Surprising violence, mystical realism, detail. . . . . . . . . . . . \
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Sodom and Gomorrah
- Remembrance of Things Past - Volume 4
- De: Marcel Proust
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
- Duración: 26 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, the narrator’s eyes are opened to a world hidden from him until now; he suspects that Albertine is attracted to her own sex.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Looking back obliquely on Proust's fourth volume
- De Darwin8u en 07-30-13
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Remembrance of Things Past - Volume 4
- De: Marcel Proust
- Narrado por: Neville Jason
Narrator excellent
Revisado: 01-14-13
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. The narration is excellent in every respect, which is a considerable achievement given the novel. Neville Jason renders the very long sentences comprehensible, does different characters without overdoing the distinctions, and transmits the writing beautifully, which can only be so if he understood himself - again no mean feat
What did you like best about this story?
There's no need to review Proust.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No one has read this work in one sitting.
Any additional comments?
I have much less difficulty in reading this work via audiobook than by sight.
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