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Bossypants
- De: Tina Fey
- Narrado por: Tina Fey
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60,671
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50,782
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50,551
Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: A recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've always suspected: You're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tina Fey broke my new SUV
- De Warren en 04-07-11
- Bossypants
- De: Tina Fey
- Narrado por: Tina Fey
A Map for other Memoirs
Revisado: 08-14-12
Tina Fey is a celebrity trying to please network bosses, relatives in Youngstown and a demanding toddler. Her story is a window into TV land and the life of an ambitious talent somehow propelled by self-doubt. But more than that, as someone who likes (and sometimes needs) a little push to be more of a bossy pants, I appreciated her directions on how to make it work. Improv, she tells us, is all about saying, "Yes," and then reacting. Since life is indeed an improv, I very much enjoyed lending her my ear. Her reading was ironic, empathetic and her timing brilliant. Loved it.
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A Walk Across the Sun
- De: Corban Addison
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 227
Corban Addison’s riveting suspense debut pulls back the veil on one of the most profound human rights issues of our day: human trafficking. After their coastal town in India is wiped out by a tsunami, two sisters are abducted and sold into the global underground sex trade. Meanwhile, half a world away, a D.C. attorney makes it his life’s work to end this dehumanizing practice.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Perhaps better read than listened to
- De Dale C. Farran en 01-12-12
- A Walk Across the Sun
- De: Corban Addison
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
Spellbinding
Revisado: 08-14-12
This book had me from the first paragraph. After a tsunami wipes out their home and family, two young girls are sucked into the underworld of human trafficking. The insights into how this world operates is gripping as are their stories. I chose this book because I am a fan of this narrator, and she did not disappoint, again speaking in Hindi, Russian, French, American, and Ukranian accents as she protrayed the different characters in this tale of darkness. I suspect the author may have been imagining himself as the hero of this tale, and I accept that. I think it was well-research, well-presented fiction, and I enjoyed it very much, one day walking an extra three miles while listening because I couldn't turn it off.
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The World We Found
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
Best-selling author and PEN and Beyond Margins Award finalist Thrity Umrigar’s acclaimed novels “resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India” ( Booklist). In The World We Found, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta - once friends at the University of Bombay - reconnect 30 years later when Armaiti is diagnosed with cancer. Coming together, all four women are forced to reexamine their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story but performance not so much!
- De Alisha en 09-13-15
- The World We Found
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
Totally Engaging
Revisado: 08-14-12
Four college friends, revolutionaries, mature on different paths and are brought back together when one is faced with a fatal illness. Written from alternating points of view, the book poetically weaves their individual stories with images of a changing India. It is brilliant. And the performance is suberb, as the narrator slips seamlessly between voices and accents.
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- A Mostly True Memoir
- De: Jenny Lawson
- Narrado por: Jenny Lawson
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8,320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,558
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7,552
For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris - Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives - the ones we'd like to pretend never happened - are in fact the ones that define us. In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Actually, not for fans of Sedaris and Fey
- De BostonMom en 04-29-12
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- A Mostly True Memoir
- De: Jenny Lawson
- Narrado por: Jenny Lawson
Vocabulary limited to slang.
Revisado: 08-14-12
Would you try another book from Jenny Lawson and/or Jenny Lawson?
Not a chance. It is just a string of trendy phrases and weak ho hum moments (as opposed to ah ha moments). I might have been amused for the length of a blog, but an entire book?
What was most disappointing about Jenny Lawson’s story?
Lack of insight. Lack of true humor.
What aspect of Jenny Lawson’s performance would you have changed?
The story.
Do you think Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Hardly.
Any additional comments?
Nope.
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