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Greenlights
- De: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrado por: Matthew McConaughey
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 180,649
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 159,494
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 158,470
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this!
- De Nancy en 10-21-20
- Greenlights
- De: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrado por: Matthew McConaughey
Unique style & wonderful lyrical delivery
Revisado: 12-22-24
Loved hearing it in his own voice. Surprised at how well his greenlights / red lights philosophy can be applied to a reader’s own life. And his inner life is so much more interesting than I imagined, surprising me, even as a fan of his onscreen personalities & artistic choices. Beautiful rhythms in these writings , & his delivery is addictive. Congrats.
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A Theater for Dreamers
- De: Polly Samson
- Narrado por: Polly Samson
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
It’s 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of poets, painters, and musicians revel in dreams at the feet of their unofficial leaders, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled queen and king of bohemia. At the center of this circle of misfit artists are the captivating and inscrutable Axel Jensen, his magnetic wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian ingenue poet named Leonard Cohen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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On an island is where this book blissfully kept me
- De Amazon Customer en 06-10-21
- A Theater for Dreamers
- De: Polly Samson
- Narrado por: Polly Samson
Engrossing Greek island drama, beautifully narrated
Revisado: 06-15-24
Hydra and Idra, Hope and regret, Love and jealousy, tortured souls and living ghosts. Artists and dreamers. Cats and donkeys. Ouzo. Pink bougainvillea, gleaming white limestone and glinting blue Aegean.
Evocative telling of an unforgettable year in the company of a tortured, talented community of writers and artists of the free-loving 60’s, and those dreamers who share their lives on the famed Greek isle. Suddenly immersed in an exotic sun-drenched island life, so unimaginable to a depressed young teenager of post-war London, Erica tries to grasp the intricacies of adulthood & love, the jealousies both artistic and personal, that weave through the lives of those who have chosen to live there. Australian, Norwegian, American or Canadian - with all characters narrated beautifully; embodying the challenges inherent in adapting to a rugged and unsophisticated island life. The steep, winding narrow paths that wind up from the port, to the imposing Mount Eros, everyone depending on donkeys & mules for transporting everything, the family-run taverna’s dishing up lamb stew, the fishermen supplying their daily catch, & the ferries from Athens connecting them all to the outside world. A world that the island is in no hurry to join.
This is a treasure of a story. My 1st visit to Idra in 2024 is 10yrs exactly after the author’s, & yet I recognize the island she describes so beautifully in this tale beginning in 1960. My visit to Dusko’s Taverna & seeing a photo of Cohen leaning by the tree, surrounded by the cast of characters, real & imagined, is a memory that will never fade. Reading this book brings it all back vividly.
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