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Tehanu
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,418
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,284
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,282
Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan - she an isolated young priestess, he a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice. A lifetime ago they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again to help another - the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delivers on Promise of Tenar and the Tombs
- De JA en 08-30-17
- Tehanu
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
Unexpected in the best ways.
Revisado: 08-18-24
This is a book for thinkers and people searching for something other than the standard hero adventure. I love how applicable this theme is in our modern age. Ursula is the wizard here.
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Red Seas Under Red Skies
- De: Scott Lynch
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,587
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,383
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,368
After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long - and they are soon back doing what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is how you write a series!
- De Anthony en 06-07-10
- Red Seas Under Red Skies
- De: Scott Lynch
- Narrado por: Michael Page
6th Read, better every time.
Revisado: 07-11-24
Mr. Lynch, thank you. 5000 white iron coins for the fourth book, please. That’s 5000 to each of the 13 authors that live in your head. Ready to Buy Now. #respect
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
- De: Scott Lynch
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,786
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,925
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,890
An orphan's life is harsh---and often short---in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains---a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans---a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stupendous, but be warned.
- De Luke A. Reynolds en 11-30-09
- The Lies of Locke Lamora
- De: Scott Lynch
- Narrado por: Michael Page
As good as it gets!
Revisado: 10-12-16
So vivid, so unique! And the narration is top of the world! That's incredible praise and simple want beautiful imagery! Think Hemingway meets Tolkien.
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Tarzan of the Apes
- De: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, he is saved from certain death when he is adopted by a she-ape. Raised as one of her own, Tarzan learns the way of the Kerchak - the tribe of great apes who rule the jungle. They teach him how to survive, to hunt, to swing through the trees, and to communicate with the other animals of the jungle. By the time he is a young man Tarzan has the courage and strength of 10 men. But it is his human brain that allows him to be the King of the Apes. And Lord of the Jungle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Fun!
- De Catra121 en 06-17-16
- Tarzan of the Apes
- De: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
Old world storytelling. True adventure!
Revisado: 05-22-16
The narrator is perfect. The prose is succinct yet expansive. The conjured imagery is beyond modern silver screen technology. Don't miss this.
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14
- De: Peter Clines
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48,848
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44,813
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44,794
There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela’s apartment. And Tim’s. And Veek’s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super solid listen!!
- De Magpie en 06-24-12
- 14
- De: Peter Clines
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
Unexpected
Revisado: 07-24-15
I love it when I get a book on casual recommendation that blows me away. I love it even more when I have no idea what is coming around the next corner. And this narrator? Surprising at every turn. Read this if you want to make it weird!
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Gormenghast
- Volume 2 of the Gormenghast Trilogy
- De: Mervyn Peake
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
Enter the fantastical world of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. Novelist C.S. Lewis called Peake's books "actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A “Supernaturally Outlandish” Masterpiece
- De Jefferson en 07-27-12
- Gormenghast
- Volume 2 of the Gormenghast Trilogy
- De: Mervyn Peake
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
True mastery of English language. Unreal.
Revisado: 04-16-15
Such magnificent turn of phrase, such a billowing, enormous and unexpected masterpiece. I'm buying the next--the third--at this moment and falling back in. Narrator amazing. In fact, he's the voice of the great castle to me.
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The Windup Girl
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 19 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 6,932
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4,942
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,968
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good and also Frustrating
- De txkimmers en 11-16-09
- The Windup Girl
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
Meandering, unconvicted, sophomoric, 3x too long.
Revisado: 08-03-14
What would have made The Windup Girl better?
I'm not sure and editor ever took time to cut this book down to make it the short story it should have been.
What do you think your next listen will be?
More Frank Herbert
What didn’t you like about Jonathan Davis’s performance?
He chooses random times to inflect, slow down his speech patterns, sound off, and create emphasis where it is unnecessary. At one point he actually lapses into an English accent for a villain that displayed that at no point in the book ever before.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Windup Girl?
I was driving across the United States and I skipped almost 30 chapters of this book without missing a beat. I wish I was exaggerating. So maybe 30 chapters?
Any additional comments?
I think the author's intention was to show the interconnectedness of politics, dogma, history, nationalism, entrepreneurship and capitalism. I think he is out of his depth and what he sought to achieve in only one book Frank Herbert achieved in five books of Dune. I very much want to like this book but it lacks originality and is in fact more suited for the teen dystopic book section. Not the fantasy or sci-fi world at all.
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