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The Interrupted Journey
- Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
- De: John Fuller
- Narrado por: Phil Thron
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
On a summer night in 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home through New Hampshire when a bright object appeared in the sky and began following them. When the couple finally pulled over to get a better look, the object vanished before their eyes. With nothing else to do, Betty and Barney returned to their car and kept driving into the night. The encounter left them rattled, but what came next was even more arresting: the following day, the Hills realized they couldn’t remember anything from almost two hours of their drive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Recounting of the Hill UFO Experience
- De KathyinOrlando en 06-20-23
- The Interrupted Journey
- Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
- De: John Fuller
- Narrado por: Phil Thron
Good detail, well-performed
Revisado: 12-08-22
Narrator is very skilled at moving back and forth between the main people of the book, doing the voice with an accent of Betty Hill, doing the Barney Hill voice, and of the hypno-therapist who helped them unlock the memories of what happened. They don’t editorialize much, and leave it to the listener to decide if it really happened or if they had some hallucination brought on by sleep deprivation.
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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- De: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone needs to read/listen to this book
- De AAHickman en 12-05-19
- The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- De: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrado por: Louise Brealey
A long-needed fresh perspective
Revisado: 01-09-21
This is an astounding work of research and diligence. The author brings to life the culture and world in which these women lived and died. That so much information actually existed about the victims was never known to me, and made me question why I had never looked more into their lives. The truth soon hit me: no one until now had bothered to find out. The information was out there, but scattered and forgotten over a century and a half. That she could locate and put together such a cohesive picture of these women and their society, give them back the humanity that was taken from them, is nothing short of a minor miracle.
The narration will take at least a chapter to get used to, as Louise Brealey’s British accent is heavier than I expected, but she was the perfect choice to read this because you can hear in her accent how the people in the book may have sounded in real life. She has a good ear for the regional dialects and the vocal class distinctions that even today are recognizable on BBC period dramas and in daily English life.
Be prepared to hear some grotesque facts of mid to late 19th century life, though she does not describe the murders themselves in detail, since that has been widely documented and dramatized from police reports, coroner’s reports and sensationalized newspaper accounts. Instead the brutal reality of just finding a place to sleep and enough food, as well as the sanitation situation in Victorian Europe as well as the ugliness of syphillis and the horrors of the workhouses is expounded upon in some depth.
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