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The House of Impossible Beauties
- De: Joseph Cassara
- Narrado por: Christian Barillas
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 311
It's 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where 17-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As real as it gets
- De Michael - Audible Editor en 03-01-18
- The House of Impossible Beauties
- De: Joseph Cassara
- Narrado por: Christian Barillas
An OK book, that could be better
Revisado: 04-27-18
I was really excited about this book. As a gay guy, and as a fan of the ball scene you don't get to find something many books with characters you can relate to. This audiobook however did not live up to my expectations.
The story has many good moments that are entertaining and worth listening to. Nevertheless, I think the book could have a lot more about the ball scene, about vogging, about transitioning into trans and about other queens from the xtravaganza house as well as others.
The main thing that I would change about the story is that it was awfully, and unnecessarily harsh. I know the real characters must have had struggles, but the fictional version could have balanced the difficult parts with the happy ones. Specially the ending could have been a bit more optimistic.
About the interpretation of the audiobook I would complain that sometimes it felt a bit flat. Also, there were many unnecessary repetition of a monotonous "he said" "she said". This may not be a problem in the written version of the book, but are extremely repetitive in the audiobook.
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Midnight's Children
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Nikesh Patel, Meera Syal, Anneika Rose, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost 30 years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- De Sharlotte en 11-16-18
- Midnight's Children
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Nikesh Patel, Meera Syal, Anneika Rose, Preeya Kalidas, Aysha Kala, full cast
Really nice story and great interpretation
Revisado: 04-27-18
I enjoy a lot this audiobook. The story is well thought, and quite interesting, specially if you like India's history. I actually just regret that the audiobook didn't last longer. The interpretation is great. I would only complain that unlike other audiobooks this one required more attention because of the background noises and the fact that some voices overlap a little from time to time. I recommend this audiobook.
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Harvard Square
- A Novel
- De: André Aciman
- Narrado por: Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 54
It’s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov - Kalaj for short - for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student’s life with his denunciations of the American obsession with "all things jumbo and ersatz".
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4 out of 5 stars
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World within a Cambridge World
- De David en 05-24-13
- Harvard Square
- A Novel
- De: André Aciman
- Narrado por: Sanjiv Jhaveri
My first audiobook, and I couldn't be more pleased
Revisado: 04-07-18
I picked this book, because I wanted more stories written by André Aciman after reading "Call me by your name". The book filled completely my expectations. André Aciman has a sharp pen for describing human relationships, the lovely as well as the bitter parts.
The narrator did a great job characterizing everyone of the roles. Perhaps I'd have like a bit more variation in the voices of the female characters, but it didn't really mattered that much.
I amply recommend this book.
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