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#340 - Charlie Chaplin Can't Save You - "Big" Bill Tilden
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
This week, we check out of the greatest tennis players who has ever lived. He's a hall of famer, and a lot of his records still stand, today. He was also a real character, writing Broadway plays, starring in silent films, and hanging out with the biggest celebrities of his day, including Charlie Chaplin. He also led a life of secrecy from the general public, hiding his true life from the outside world. He is eventually arrested for a terrible crime, and when you think it can't get any worse, he does it again. And again. His tale has a pathetic ending, from one of the most prolific people of ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent per usual!
- De katie marshall en 02-14-23
Excellent per usual!
Revisado: 02-14-23
Great content, great story telling, and hilarious humor mixed in. I find myself laughing several times each episode. James has a knack for finding information about each athlete or the people in the athletes’ lives that adds value for the listener.
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The Binding
- A Novel
- De: Bridget Collins
- Narrado por: Carl Prekopp
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,459
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,296
Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder - a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice among their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just wow
- De RUKiddingMee en 05-18-19
- The Binding
- A Novel
- De: Bridget Collins
- Narrado por: Carl Prekopp
Painful listen.
Revisado: 11-29-22
Imagine a basketball player breaking away with the the ball. He runs and dribbles up to the hoop and instead of dunking the ball, he slows down, keeps his feet on the ground, and just dribbles in circles underneath the net. That’s how I imagined parts of this story.
The author would build up to the opportunity for a climax before losing it.
A couple other things you should be aware of: this author likes flowery prose. If that’s not your style, be warned. There is usually a description of the person’s emotional state before or after the character is quoted.
Secondly, other readers have warned others in their reviews about the subject matter. The synopsis of the book gives nothing away about the very dark moments in this book, and there are many of them.
I stuck with this book because I committed to it. There were some moments where I could shake my head in agreement with a point a character made. There were moments I was invested. But, I would have preferred to devote those 16 hours to another literary work.
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