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Meetings with Remarkable Men
- De: G. I. Gurdjieff
- Narrado por: Jim Wentland
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
As I wrote in the last chapter of the first series, I had given myself my word that during the whole of this time, I would do no writing whatsoever, but would only—for the well-being of the most deserving of these subordinate parts, slowly and gently—drink down all the bottles of old Calvados now at my disposal by the will of fate in the wine-cellar of the Prieuré, and specially provided the century before last by people who understood the true sense of life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Annoying Narrator
- De Carsten en 12-05-23
- Meetings with Remarkable Men
- De: G. I. Gurdjieff
- Narrado por: Jim Wentland
5 Stars Across the Board
Revisado: 07-25-23
Gurdjieff was a remarkable man, and his account of the remarkable men in his own life has great value. As well, his story of his own life and theirs is well written, interesting, and very entertaining. The last two chapters provide an additional condensed account of his own struggles to realize his vision during the upheavals of the 20th Century-- truly fascinating. I have very high standards for narration, as it is hard for me to get past a poor reading. The narrator, in my opinion, nailed it. His reading lent just a bit of additional personality to the narrative, but was not overbearing. I thought his voice was extremely suitable for the sense of place and time.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,923
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
A Very Mixed Review
Revisado: 06-01-23
I had been meaning to read this book for decades and was surprised at how superficial the story lines were. I guess if you throw a bit of philophastering about Nietzsche into a bunch of sex scenes, a book can be considered to be "deep." The characters fell along very predictable and stereotypic lines with the typical womanizer, the pathetic and needy "heroine" obsessed with her body, her looks, the affairs of her partner, the femme fatale, etc. The title should have been "Author's Fantasy about Himself as a Sex God." As a second-generation Czech and someone who spent a short time as a child in Czechoslovakia during the Communist mid-70s, I appreciated the setting of the story and learned a lot about that time period. The very talented narrator and the history of an amazing country were the two things that made this story bearable.
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