Derek McDow
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Mona
- A Novel
- De: Pola Oloixarac, Adam Morris - translator
- Narrado por: Sofia Willingham
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings - she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe", Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Tedious Bore of Bad Prose
- De Derek McDow en 10-21-24
- Mona
- A Novel
- De: Pola Oloixarac, Adam Morris - translator
- Narrado por: Sofia Willingham
A Tedious Bore of Bad Prose
Revisado: 10-21-24
high-school level of sexual depictions--crude and unappealing. How many times can you say, pussy in the most amateur ways possible? Find out in Mona!
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A Farewell to Arms
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: John Slattery
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,081
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,039
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,010
The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is not unabridged
- De Valerian en 06-17-11
- A Farewell to Arms
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: John Slattery
Consistently Monotonous
Revisado: 11-05-12
Unfortunately (at least for me), Farewell to Arms is more of a readerly notch in the belt, a tick off the "to-read" list than a compelling and sustaining novel. Being a long-time Hemingway devotee and having read all of his other novels, I have to say Farewell to Arms is his weakest. That said, I still endorse reading it.
In addition to Papa's slow-plodding narrative, John Slattery doesn't do justice to the handful of high-tense moments in the story. Slattery's pace remains painfully consistent despite the obvious head-over-heals moments. In those highly charged scenes I had to actually pause the audio version, locate the spot in the physical text and read it manually to capture the quicker flow and rhythm. (For an example: listen to the mortar-shelling scene to get the idea.) Further, Slattery reads all of the characters with the same Italian tone and accent--men and women, alike. I can usually ignore this petty grievance but in this particular case the monotonous and repetitive characterizations were unavoidably annoying.
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