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The Institute
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Santino Fontana
- Duración: 18 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48,573
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 43,757
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43,575
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and 10-year-old Avery Dixon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to like this novel.. but..
- De Wendi en 09-21-19
- The Institute
- A Novel
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Santino Fontana
Suspense!!
Revisado: 12-13-22
Stephen King does it again! His carefully drawn and diverse characters fill this story about a place that uses children for ostensibly righteous reasons, but the cost is horribly high.
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All the Names
- De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 225
Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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effortless abstract conections
- De ron en 02-20-12
- All the Names
- De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
Ariadne’s thread
Revisado: 10-21-21
This is the most useful metaphor to describe the journey on which Saramago takes the reader, a labyrinthine path that one can only retrace by means of an indestructible thread tied around one’s ankle, just as the protagonist does. There is a Dickensian quality to this story, quirky and detailed, both mundane and high-minded. A tribute to the tenacity of human beings to find connection and meaning.
However, the performance is unforgivable! How can the narrator possibly read the entire novel MISPRONOUNCING THE PROTAGONIST’S NAME?! Seriously! Señor Jose pronounced “Joe-zay”instead of “Ho-zay” is simply beyond comprehension. And where was the director of this project to allow such a travesty?
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Furious Hours
- Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
- De: Casey Cep
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,425
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,224
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the reverend. Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, needs a Southern narrator
- De Joseph Wu en 06-06-19
- Furious Hours
- Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
- De: Casey Cep
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
Wonderful book, poor reader
Revisado: 06-29-19
The quality and depth of research that Ceps lends to this story is quite something, although the murder story is far less interesting than the half of the book she spends on Harpee Lee, which is revelatory. To Kill a Mockingbird is certainly in my top 10 all-time favorite books, a true Bildungsroman with perhaps the best use of the first-person detached point of view in American literature. So Harper Lee, with all her enigmatic seclusion, is fascinating fodder for any lit-lover. But the reader of this recording added nothing to the book. In fact, she drove me crazy with certain faux-pas such as "MayCOMB" instead of " MAYcum." Horrific!!
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