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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The first story is the best
- De Susan S. en 01-20-14
- How to Be Alone
- Essays
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
Brilliant essays, awful audio formatting
Revisado: 07-05-24
Dear God, please fix this so that the “chapters” correspond to the actual starts and stops of essays. This is a travesty. Great essays.
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Novelist as a Vocation
- De: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrado por: Kotaro Watanabe
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously private writer Haruki Murakami shares with listeners his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Love Murakami - Struggled with this Narrator
- De Harry Bartle en 11-30-22
Great for aspiring novelists
Revisado: 11-28-23
I found a lot to take with me in this one. I especially enjoyed the advice on physical fitness as a way of increasing stamina for intellectual and creative work.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
- De: Jacqueline Harpman
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 904
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 854
Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the 40th prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomally bleak and so full of life
- De Anonymous User en 04-18-25
- I Who Have Never Known Men
- De: Jacqueline Harpman
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
Phenomenal
Revisado: 11-14-23
Those who love books have all come across those that change what you believe a book can do, and this is one of those for me. Just gorgeous, agonizing prose. Surprised this hasn’t been picked up by the cult of BookTok yet!! It’s got all the dark and sad and genius that demand virality.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
- De: Jacqueline Harpman
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the 40th prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De katherine en 09-18-23
- I Who Have Never Known Men
- De: Jacqueline Harpman
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
Phenomenal
Revisado: 11-14-23
Those who love books have all come across those that change what you believe a book can do, and this is one of those for me. Just gorgeous, agonizing prose. Surprised this hasn’t been picked up by the cult of BookTok yet!! It’s got all the dark and sad and genius that demand virality.
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Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
- A Novel
- De: Ron Currie Jr.
- Narrado por: Jake Hart
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 15
In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke. The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr.’s new novel has a problem - or rather, several of them. He’s a writer whose latest book was destroyed in a fire. He’s mourning the death of his father, and has been in love with the same woman since grade school, a woman whose beauty and allure is matched only by her talent for eluding him. Worst of all, he’s not even his own man, but rather an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie’s own life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh
- De Sand en 10-23-13
- Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
- A Novel
- De: Ron Currie Jr.
- Narrado por: Jake Hart
A tender slap in the face
Revisado: 11-14-23
So many gutting quotes copied down, so many moments when I found some quality I thought no one else exhibited realized in the tumult and baggage that are Emma and Ron. One thing I really enjoyed was Emma’s character, who among other things is, from my POV, a pristine rendering of trauma as a non-defining but certainly very there part of a person, and realized in so many exciting dimensions. To the reviewers who found the couple’s awfulness—undeniably there, though how occasional or how constant, I’m not sure (certainly you will hate Ron at parts, and certainly you’ll want Emma to stop being such a torturess)—a reason not to like the story, I can only say fair enough, I guess. But if you like messy complicated lives and stunning, vibrating prose, and what I’d call some interesting meta play on fiction, AI, authenticity and other Very Big Ideas explored without pretension, all woven into a story that’s tender but also like being slapped in the face, you’ll want to listen. Great narration, too.
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Eileen
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,572
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,407
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strange, unsettling, but engrossing
- De S. Yates en 01-09-18
- Eileen
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
Adored this one
Revisado: 04-02-23
I’ve loved Moshfegh’s other works, and this one one is perhaps my favorite so far. Fascinating story, and remarkable narration. Yes, the negative reviews are correct in stating that this book features plenty of depravity, suffering, and disturbing descriptions. That’s something I tend to like in fiction, but if you don’t, this one isn’t for you. Beautiful nonetheless.
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