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Familiaris
- De: David Wroblewski
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 37 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 324
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin’s northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start—and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends—human, animal, and otherworldly—to realize their dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great story！
- De gypsietraveler en 10-25-24
- Familiaris
- De: David Wroblewski
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
Extraordinary!
Revisado: 08-28-24
This is one of the best books I have ever listened to and I listen to many! I liked Edgar Sawtelle, but loved this “prequel.”. The performance is wonderful. Within this one novel there are so many beautiful stories and characters, all lovingly told. The relationships and characters feel incredibly true to life, except when they are not meant to. Although you don’t have to read Edgar Sawtelle first, there are many beautiful surprises that you will only catch if you read both books.
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Mad Honey
- A Novel
- De: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrado por: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15,661
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,112
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good writing but...
- De Suzanna en 10-08-22
- Mad Honey
- A Novel
- De: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrado por: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finn
Some of the worst writing imaginable
Revisado: 02-09-24
If you enjoy listening to every boring detail of a teenagers life written so poorly it makes you cringe, then this is the book for you. This is truly one of the worst books that I have ever listened to.
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The History of Psychedelics
- De: Erika Dyck, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Erika Dyck
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms. There’s been a lot of discussion in the medical world lately about the potential benefits of these and other drugs for certain medical conditions, such as anxiety and depression. As we consider the place of psychedelics in the future, we can draw insight and guidance from the history of how psychedelics have been described, sought after, applied, and prohibited over the centuries. Erika Dyck, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, introduces you to the world of hallucinogens.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An OK Overview
- De Dataman en 10-15-23
- The History of Psychedelics
- De: Erika Dyck, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Erika Dyck
Interesting & well told
Revisado: 11-20-23
I appreciate the balanced approach to this lecture & its attempt to bring historically underrepresented perspectives into light. I found it very interesting and informative!
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Maame
- A Novel
- De: Jessica George
- Narrado por: Heather Agyepong
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 989
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 881
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 879
It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from advanced stage Parkinson’s. At work, her boss is a nightmare and Maddie is tired of always being the only Black person in every meeting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A dang good book!
- De Christina en 02-10-23
- Maame
- A Novel
- De: Jessica George
- Narrado por: Heather Agyepong
No great, but even good
Revisado: 03-02-23
I typically like the books the Jenna recommends, but this was a boring story about an unsympathetic character who is young and immature. I listened to this after the absolute masterpiece that is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, and it was like going from graduate school to Kindergarten. I truly can’t believe people enjoy this book. It is so shallow and poorly written. If you take out some language and change the characters age, it could easily be a YA novel, and not a good one.
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The Beauty in Breaking
- A Memoir
- De: Michele Harper
- Narrado por: Nicole Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 964
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 855
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 851
Michele Harper is a female African-American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, DC, in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!!
- De Monica MD en 07-09-20
- The Beauty in Breaking
- A Memoir
- De: Michele Harper
- Narrado por: Nicole Lewis
Not Eat,Pray Love BUT Eat, Preach and Preach some more
Revisado: 11-24-20
I have seen other compare this book to Eat, Pray, Love, but for me it fell well short. This book is all about telling, not showing. In Eat, Pray, Love she shows us the way to her healing. In this book she preaches endlessly and shows us very little of herself. I read a lot of memoirs and did not find this one to be very insightful or revealing. I would not recommend it, even thought it is listed as a best memoir of 2020 for NYT, which is what drew me. There are many better books!
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The Elephant Whisperer
- My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
- De: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7,827
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7,119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,120
>When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them. In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed he became a part of their family. And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he came to realize that they had a great deal to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story, beautifully written
- De Tango en 01-12-13
- The Elephant Whisperer
- My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
- De: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
Wonderful
Revisado: 06-27-17
Such a fascinating and loving story of an important man and his life's work. I love listening to what a fantastic life he had and his work with elephants.
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The God of Small Things
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,743
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,440
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,436
Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy Booker winner!
- De Saman en 08-10-17
- The God of Small Things
- De: Arundhati Roy
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
A unique marvel
Revisado: 06-23-17
This is by far one of the best books that I have listened to. The author has a way of playing with language that is rare in adult literature, and much more common in children's stories. The effect is a beautiful, poetic story read flawlessly. This is one of the few books that I will listen to again. Truly magical!
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57,694
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50,589
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50,482
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
- Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
Terribly boring narration
Revisado: 06-17-17
This is my favorite genre & I have enjoyed MANY memoirs, autobiographies & biographies. It is hard to tell if the story is mind numbingly boring, or if the narration ruins it completely. If you haven't read Steve Jobs or Shoe Dog, get those instead.
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62,353
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55,764
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55,664
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
More Thesis than Memoir
Revisado: 04-02-17
As someone who reads almost primarily memoirs, I don't feel that this book fits neatly in this genre. It is more "study with personal connections" than it is a pure memoir. The reliance on data and clear need to prove a point of view with evidence, take away from the emotional resonance of the story. A co-writer & audiobook reader would have also helped significantly to give the story more impact. I do feel that there are many gems within this book and do not regret the purchase.
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
- An Autobiography
- De: Rob Lowe
- Narrado por: Rob Lowe
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,078
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,371
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,290
A teen idol at 15, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at 20, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences. Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last 25 years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book and Great Story
- De Natalie J. Belle MD en 04-30-11
- Stories I Only Tell My Friends
- An Autobiography
- De: Rob Lowe
- Narrado por: Rob Lowe
Wonderful Stories
Revisado: 07-10-15
Although I like the memoir genre, this is not a book that I normally would have chosen. It was on sale & got great reviews, so I tried it out. So glad I did!
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