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On Writers and Writing
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margaret Atwood
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?
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5 out of 5 stars
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l just love Margaret Atwood.
- De Brandy Ringleb en 01-11-21
- On Writers and Writing
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Margaret Atwood
Atwood Great, Audible Also There
Revisado: 02-01-24
The book was as lovely and informative and thoughtful as any Atwood book, but I was absolutely astounded to hear in the interview and Audible credits that the book I’ve so enjoyed was not, in fact, ON WRITERS AND WRITING, but NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE DEAD. Shock! Awe! Double checking the title, comparing the TOC of the print of this book which I also have and have read. As it turns out, Audible lied to me. This is ON WRITERS. Alas, I cannot rate on production quality, otherwise this would get one star in that category.
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Inside the Mind of BTK
- The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
- De: Johnny Dodd, John Douglas
- Narrado por: Jason Klav
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 627
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 624
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent communications, and bragging about his crimes to local newspapers and TV stations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Have re-read by Jonathan Groff
- De Rachel Lindahl en 10-21-20
- Inside the Mind of BTK
- The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
- De: Johnny Dodd, John Douglas
- Narrado por: Jason Klav
At Least It Was Free
Revisado: 09-08-23
Other reviewers have already commented on the poor quality of the narration, so instead I’ll focus on the book itself.
And it was TERRIBLE.
I’ve read every John Douglas book and I’ve always been impressed by his meticulous accuracy, his empathy for the victims, and his overwhelming disdain for the predators he profiles.
This book—thankfully the only one Dodd was able to pollute—reads like a bad forgery of a college freshman who just finished his first read of IN COLD BLOOD and whose entire experience with nonfiction amounts to the stuck-together pages of esquire and people magazine.
Never mind the inaccuracies—everything from misattributing quotes to books he’s clearly never read to details about guns he’s clearly never shot to cringeworthy exaggeration of details in Douglas’s own well-documented life and career—the worst part is that everything that sets Douglas’s work apart from the hordes of other true crime pieces is missing. The recount of the crimes is dehumanizing (women were only bodies, they were terrible mothers and wives, and on one disgusting occasion a mother of three was “nothing more than a flesh-covered mannequin”) and Rader himself is referred to as a “Boy Scout gone bad,” and a “mastermind,” and “had hit the genetic jackpot.”
I don’t blame Douglas himself for any of this. After all, this is a man who committed his life to hunting criminals. Not writing. In OBSESSION, he recounts how he didn’t even know who Othello was in the titular play. He seems to leave the narrative to those who do it professionally. Which he and I both clearly assumed Dodd could do. He cannot.
Dodd’s prose is so bad I found myself physically cringing at several places. It reads like a shitty tabloid article by a Hunter S Thompson wannabe (and “wannabe” itself is word that is haunting my vocabulary because Dodd uses it to refer to everyone from fbi profilers who Douglas elsewhere holds in the highest esteem, to someone else writing about the killer, to the Rader himself). I suspect Dodd believes he’s engaging in gonzo journalism, but he is not self-critical, factually accurate, nor talented enough to pull it off. The point of gonzo journalism is to disregard fact in favor of truth. This book disregards both in favor of a poor imitation of Hollywood showmanship.
I’m glad I didn’t have to pay for this audiobook. But I wish I could get a refund for the hours I wasted on it. Look for Douglas’s work, BTK, or free audiobooks to kill a boring afternoon. This one is a dud.
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The Empathy Exams
- Essays
- De: Leslie Jamison
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 129
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other?
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3 out of 5 stars
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provocative
- De 2or3littlebirds en 03-18-15
- The Empathy Exams
- Essays
- De: Leslie Jamison
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
A Reader Who Speaks No Spanish
Revisado: 12-01-22
Jamison’s work is, as always, lovely, but there is something endlessly jarring about hearing “viva la revolución,” in a Spanish-speaking country, recounted by a Spanish-speaking writer, yet read—inexplicably—in a French accent with French pronunciation. If you wish to pick up this book, consider buying a print copy or locating a reading that makes a bit more cultural sense. It shouldn’t be hard to find: Approx right percent of the world speaks Spanish, and even more can quote with better accuracy than Marlo does here.
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