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Lake Success
- A Novel
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 577
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 518
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 513
Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his three-year-old son’s diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart. Meanwhile, his super-smart wife, Seema - a driven first-generation American who craved the picture-perfect life that comes with wealth - has her own demons to face.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really can't stand Arthur Morey's reading
- De Anne en 12-11-18
- Lake Success
- A Novel
- De: Gary Shteyngart
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Soneela Nankani
Great book, meh narrator
Revisado: 10-11-18
I enjoyed this book very much. My one complaint is that Arthur Morey (reading the "Barry" POV) is (and sounds) too old. I heard Gary Shteyngart read an excerpt on City Arts & Lectures and much prefer his reading voice - I wish he'd recorded the audiobook himself.
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The Circle
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9,358
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8,525
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 8,541
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid, just not great social network dystopia
- De Darwin8u en 10-10-13
- The Circle
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
Female POV narrated by a man?!
Revisado: 01-15-17
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator - a man - was totally inappropriate for this book, which should have been narrated by a young (or young-sounding) woman. The "ethnic" accents he adopts for characters with international-sounding names are especially terrible, including offensive versions of what seem intended to be Spanish/Mexican, Indian/Southeast Asian, and indeterminate Middle Eastern-ish.
Any additional comments?
The story has some interesting ideas but is full of holes and is badly/lazily written at points.
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A Clash of Kings
- A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2
- De: George R.R. Martin
- Narrado por: Roy Dotrice
- Duración: 37 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 90,714
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78,095
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 77,907
A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Epic novel, terrible narration.
- De Nicholas en 05-30-12
- A Clash of Kings
- A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2
- De: George R.R. Martin
- Narrado por: Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice is the Worst
Revisado: 06-02-14
What disappointed you about A Clash of Kings?
Most specifically, Roy Dotrice's narration is unbearable.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Use another narrator.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
As read by Mr. Dotrice, Westeros (and environs) is peopled almost entirely by trolls, goblins, elves, crones, and a few regular guys (young and old). The characters are given such horrible voices that it's difficult to hear past them - Tyrion, for example, is read as a simple-minded cockney (i.e., low class) house elf, which is totally wrong.
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Her Fearful Symmetry
- A Novel
- De: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrado por: Bianca Amato
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 578
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 588
When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt; they only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers - with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What a waste
- De Shel en 10-28-09
- Her Fearful Symmetry
- A Novel
- De: Audrey Niffenegger
- Narrado por: Bianca Amato
Reluctantly Dislike
Revisado: 05-26-11
I have mixed feelings about this book: The writing is good enough and the story is engaging, but there came a point -- perhaps 2/3 of the way through -- where the story became too disturbing for me and I had to stop listening to it. Significantly, this is the first time that has ever happened to me: Sometimes a story becomes upsetting and I need to read the synopsis on Wikipedia to find out what's going to happen before I can proceed (e.g., A Fine Balance), but this is the first time that I read the synopsis and still decided to quit, despite thinking it was a perfectly well-written book. I just found some of the plot points -- and one of the characters -- too unpleasant. I loved The Time Traveler's Wife, however, and will continue to follow Niffenegger's writing for the time being.
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