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River Town
- Two Years on the Yangtze
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 557
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 437
In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peter Berkrot Again?
- De Abstraction en 07-10-11
- River Town
- Two Years on the Yangtze
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
A fascinating different experience. loved it!
Revisado: 02-10-25
I love listening to other Americans' experience in China (I taught in a major Chinese city in the 2000's) and this book about a teacher going to a remote Southern Chinese town was really interesting because of a few similarities but mostly huge differences. The author does a great job introducing us to all of the various people he met and spent time with, making me nostalgic for the friendships I made. I can also see the ways China has changed so fast, but also some things never change. The only thing that bothered me was the narrator's repeated cringey pronunciation of common words every foreigner in China learns the first week -"Waiguoren" and "Xiaojie" TAOYUAN! I'm going to listen to Other Rivers right away!
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Backyard Starship
- Backyard Starship, Book 1
- De: J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,040
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,485
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,475
When Van Tudor returns to his childhood home, he inherits more than the family farm. His grandfather used to tell him fantastic stories of spacemen and monsters, princesses and galactic knights. Little did Van realize, the old man's tales were more than fiction; they were real. Hidden beneath the old barn, Van’s legacy is waiting: a starship, not of this world. With his combat AI, an android bird named Perry, Van takes his first steps into the wider galaxy. He soon finds that space is far busier and more dangerous than he could have ever conceived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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holy smokes
- De Tod en 12-14-21
- Backyard Starship
- Backyard Starship, Book 1
- De: J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer
Would make a fun Space RPG
Revisado: 01-19-24
This is aa fun light space adventure that scratches a lot of my adolescent space adventure itches I've never grown out of. Fun personalities, especially the AI. This would be a good set up for a fun space RPG that I would play.
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Knife of Dreams
- Book Eleven of The Wheel of Time
- De: Robert Jordan
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Duración: 32 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,717
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18,734
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18,721
Abandoning Rand’s war against the Dark One, Perrin Aybara has made his own truce with the Seanchan in his obsessive quest to save his wife Faile from the Shaido and destroy their mutual enemies. To achieve victory, Perrin must render the Shaido Wise One channelers in Malden powerless. But even as he puts his desperate plan into action, Masema Dagar, the Prophet of the Dragon, moves against him. Traveling with circus performers through Seanchan-controlled Altara, Mat Cauthon attempts to court Tuon, the Daughter of the Nine Moons, to complete their fateful prophesized marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than the last few, but
- De Peter en 09-23-06
- Knife of Dreams
- Book Eleven of The Wheel of Time
- De: Robert Jordan
- Narrado por: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
Huge payoffs! for a lot of long set up plotlines.
Revisado: 10-01-21
This isn't the last book of the series, but this book really pulls together a lot of threads together that have been hanging out for a while and gives most of them (IMO) very satisfying payoffs. I feel like Jordan did a great job of resolving a lot of things in a way that allows for Brandon Sanderson to conclude the series in the next three installments when events in the series really go into HIGH GEAR
I've seen some reviews complaining about a few audio issues. For me, unlike previous books in this series, I found the recording volume a bit too low. My hearing isn't great and I listen to audiobooks through my car stereo. I had to turn my car volume up to max and still had trouble hearing this book. I tried with other books as well podcasts and apps and don't have this issue so I think the problem might be with this particular recording. I was able to get through it, though, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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