Dr. K. E. Patrick
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56 Days
- De: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,071
Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who - and what - he really is.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing
- De SB en 08-18-21
- 56 Days
- De: Catherine Ryan Howard
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
More intense suspense on audible
Revisado: 10-06-22
First, the voice narrator is excellent: so clear who is who via slight changes in inflection, tone, breathiness and patterns, and it’s important especially as there are three main viewpoints throughout.
Second, the Irish accents add an important under-bubbling context. From the angle of whether the narrator is clear even when driving a car at high speed, the answer is yes. Superb.
Now about the story. I have just read two books set over COVID. One was Picoult’s Wish You Were Here in hardback form and this as audible. The book did trigger me slightly but this one was more a convenient back drop, and indeed, was treated as such by the two main characters, too, so not as much trying to recreate the uncertain early days of the pandemic as an excuse for putting them in each other’s company in isolated circumstances.
The plot takes place roughly over 56 days but jumps around this timeline liberally, including a “today” where police are involved, and the prior days as Oliver and Kira meet, and get involved. Over time, we are apprised of Oliver’s past, and later on, to Kira’s. Some twists in the plot weren’t surprises while others were, but I enjoyed - particularly on audible where it’s harder to keep the timeline as clear as it would be with a hard copy and the ability to flip back and forth between the chapters/changes in time.
In other words, it seemed to unfold slower and with more mystery via audio.
I nearly didn’t buy this because of some poor reviews but am glad I took a chance on it: it was enthralling and very well read.
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The Index Card
- Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
- De: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
- Narrado por: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 337
TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse. They're wrong. When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the best-selling Pound Foolish, he made an offhand suggestion: Everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Getting your personal finance right? Start here.
- De Alan J en 04-27-18
- The Index Card
- Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
- De: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
- Narrado por: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
Really no nonsense!
Revisado: 08-20-20
I’ve heard all this before, but here the authors just package it so simply. Great for teens headed to college and retirees wanting to take more control over their financial plans. I love the emphasis on index funds over fee-paying alternatives. Good and clear voices, too. Should be everyone’s first finance book.
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East of Eden
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 25 h y 23 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 18,441
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16,321
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16,315
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why have I avoided this Beautiful Book???
- De Kelly en 03-25-17
- East of Eden
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
Occasionally a lapse in narrative, but fab
Revisado: 12-24-17
The nature of audio books is sometimes getting lost as to which generation is being spotlighted as Steinbeck chronicles the tangled lives of several generations of families, particular lone fathers with a pair of sons.
The characters were amazingly drawn and the tensions, timeless.
The reader who narrated this did a great job, and I never was confused about who was speaking.
Highly recommended, especially on a ling road trip like I was on when I listened to it.
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Sister Carrie
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: C.M. Hebert
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 247
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 199
Sister Carrie is an epic of urban life, the story of an innocent heroine adrift in an indifferent city. When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. Her story is one of struggle, from sweatshop to stage success, and of the love she inspires in a married man twice her age, whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why audiobooks matter
- De connie en 12-03-09
- Sister Carrie
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: C.M. Hebert
Rollee coaster saga
Revisado: 12-24-17
Trying not to include spoilers, the ups and down of Carrie’s life accompanied me on a long road trip to Florida. I found some of the characters’ decisions very frustrating and perhaps plot driven, but as a look at late-19th-century life in the urban centers of Chicago and New York, the novel had glimpses of American desires and tragedies.
The woman who narrated did good renditions of women’s voices. Her narrative sometimes reminded me of a speech-to-text voice when the author’s long, epic sentences got the better of her. Men’s voices, though, were attempted at her lowest register and just sounded growly. Having heard a child’s Pinocchio audio tape when my eldest was a toddler so many times, I was too much reminded of the oily growl of the trickster Fox.
It wasn’t intolerable though. Just not amazing.
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