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The Bonfire of the Vanities
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,019
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,147
Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress - until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward into a humiliating fall from grace. A car accident in the Bronx involving Sherman, his girlfriend, and two young lower-class Black men sets a match to the incendiary racial and social tensions of 1980s New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Big mistake
- De karen en 08-31-14
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
Fantastic story, over-exuberant performance
Revisado: 06-10-19
The story’s terrific, engaging and witty, and a timeless picture into 1980s New York. My only knock is while the reader is captivating, he necessarily has to get a bit, uh, shrill when doing some of the voices since everyone in this book is a little nuts. It really anyone’s fault, just an unfortunate consequence of translating a book like this to audio format.
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Hyperion
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25,110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21,352
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21,392
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Shrike Awaits. Enter The Time Tombs...
- De Michael en 10-13-12
- Hyperion
- De: Dan Simmons
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
Terrific story but you gotta plan to read the sequel
Revisado: 03-23-19
Love the story, so huge and expansive without being frustrating or shallow. My only complaint is the actor who voices Lahmia is a little stiff.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 14,060
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,428
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12,370
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Great book, critically flawed audio
Revisado: 01-15-19
Amazon’s encoding of the audiobook is broken. It starts about halfway into the book then suddenly restarts 10 hours in so you hear all the stories out of order.
It’s a terrific story but the audio file needs fixing.
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- De: Alfred Lansing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 26,282
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23,281
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23,240
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've had
- De Thomas Allen en 09-17-08
- Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- De: Alfred Lansing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
Stunning narrative with a great reader
Revisado: 06-07-18
Incredible true story. Thrilling, fascinating, terrifying, filled with vivid details and occasional humor. And the narrator is very, very good, ::extremely British::, such that I had to slow down to 1.0x from 1.25x to understand what he was saying.
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With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- De: E. B. Sledge
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11,091
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,967
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9,919
The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is the second audio book of Sledge's work
- De Richard en 10-21-13
- With the Old Breed
- At Peleliu and Okinawa
- De: E. B. Sledge
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
Terrifically written, dodgy narration
Revisado: 04-23-18
This is an amazing memoir, indispensable for understanding World War 2’s Pacific Theater. My only complaint is while it’s nice they got Joseph Mazzello to narrate, I found his voice actually rather flat and repetitive.
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Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Jolene Kim
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 373
At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China - behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An insult to audiobooks. Get a print version.
- De Reademandweep en 02-23-15
- Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Jolene Kim
Terrific portrait of a complex figure
Revisado: 08-11-17
It's refreshing to have a biography that is neither libelous nor hagiographic. I guess Cixi is fairly unknown in the West, so Chang's account of her life is deeply interesting from beginning to end, and filled with amazing details presented with narrative ease. She is fair and careful to address conflicting historical evidence, so you don't have to worry you're getting fed some biased or distorted account. Very, very good.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,068
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,747
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the Earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights; to trust money, books, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables, and consumerism?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating grand history with some big problems
- De A reader en 05-27-15
- Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Mostly good; wobbly in the middle
Revisado: 06-29-17
This is a great, comprehensive survey of Humankind, as the title promises, but the initial fascination in the first chapters about human evolution gives way to dreary speculation and pedantry about "imagined order" and "intersubjective reality." The author ends up somewhere simultaneously profound and banal, making such pronouncements as "money isn't real", and other "yeah duh" statements that most college freshmen probably find amazing but don't really advance the discussion much.
It's just one complaint; most of the book is terrifically interesting, on how things like cooking allows early humans to rapidly expand their omnivorous powers, or how culture is similar to a virus in the way it treats its human hosts. I just think the second quarter of the book could've benefited from tighter editing to cut down on the empty speculation and fake profundities.
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