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Age of Ash
- De: Daniel Abraham
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
When her brother is murdered, a petty thief from the slums of Longhill sets out to discover who killed him and why. But the more she discovers about him, the more she learns about herself, and the truths she finds are more dangerous than knives....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Deserves a better reader
- De Mary en 02-16-22
- Age of Ash
- De: Daniel Abraham
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
Deserves a better reader
Revisado: 02-16-22
The quality of the writing shines through, but it is already clear this one will be a slog.
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How to Raise an Elephant
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 21
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 744
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Narración:2.5 out of 5 stars 681
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 676
The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma. Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Change Alert
- De D. Jackson en 11-24-20
- How to Raise an Elephant
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 21
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
Screechy and Unpleasant
Revisado: 11-30-20
I've gotten accustomed to changes of narrator. Wandering pronunciations do bother me, but then production values for audiobooks are often quite low. Ms. Andoh has a pleasant "narrator's voice", and I've enjoyed her other work. But clearly no one bothered to audition her for this, or suggest she listen to JUST ONE of the other books in the series. Most of the recurring characters are given high, screechy and barely distinguishable voices. A straight reading in her own voice would have been more effective.
The result is quite unpleasant. This was otherwise one of the better recent books in this series. What a shame.
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
- A Memoir of Food and Longing
- De: Anya von Bremzen
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, in its full flavor, both bitter and sweet, Anya and her mother, Larisa, embark on a journey unlike any other: they decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience - turning Larisa’s kitchen into a "time machine and an incubator of memories". Together, mother and daughter re-create meals both modest and sumptuous.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Does Pronunciation Matter?
- De Mary en 11-23-13
- Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
- A Memoir of Food and Longing
- De: Anya von Bremzen
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
Does Pronunciation Matter?
Revisado: 11-23-13
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Very good, very sad book. Kathleen Gati has a warm voice and reads smoothly, but makes no attempt at getting Russian pronunciations right. People, places and Russian words range from slightly off to laughably wrong. Why do audiobook producers believe that one East European accent is the same as another? I'd have enjoyed it more with a Russian-speaking reader.
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The Steel Remains
- De: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,261
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 976
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 984
In just a few short years, Richard K. Morgan has vaulted to the pinnacle of the science fiction world. Now he turns his iconoclastic talents to epic fantasy, crafting a darkly violent, tautly plotted adventure sure to thrill old fans and captivate new readers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This isn't your father's gay hero!
- De Kindle Customer en 01-23-09
- The Steel Remains
- De: Richard K. Morgan
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
A labor of love
Revisado: 02-09-10
This is a very intelligent reading of a difficult book. I was frankly disappointed by the print version, but Simon Vance manages to get beyond the jokes, cliches, homages and frank missteps to find the vein of utterly unsentimental humanism I look for from Morgan. Passages (and profanity) that only grated on the page play better here. Fair warning -- there is a good deal of graphic sex in the first half. I think it works (well, mostly) as characterization and as plot device, but you won't want to listen to it in the grocery store.
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