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Improv Nation
- How We Made a Great American Art
- De: Sam Wasson
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad-hoc venue to see its unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style. From this unlikely seed grew the Second City, the massively influential comedy theater troupe, and its offshoots - the Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, SNL, and a slew of others. Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv in this richly reported, scene-driven narrative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compulsively listenable historical overview
- De Keith en 03-26-18
- Improv Nation
- How We Made a Great American Art
- De: Sam Wasson
- Narrado por: David de Vries
The subjects covered are excellently written.
Revisado: 09-10-19
I hope there's a sequel, because while the book is good at covering the Compass/Second City/iO lineage, it completely omits the Keith Johnstone/TheaterSports/ComedySportz branch of the improv family tree. There's more story to tell.
With all the improvisers in the entertainment and audiobook industry, I'd think they could find a reader with a passion for the material. The read doesn't feel like the reader cares about the material, and every time he mispronounced Dave Koechner's name (which was every time he said it), I cringed. Likewise, the one time he said Paul Feig's name, he whiffed it. He even said "Mike" Napier once.
Good book. Loving writing. Hope there's more.
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Fear
- Trump in the White House
- De: Bob Woodward
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23,637
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20,791
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20,662
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House residence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Depressing...
- De Pattisguilfordgardenct en 09-11-18
- Fear
- Trump in the White House
- De: Bob Woodward
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
It's already outdated. Sad!
Revisado: 03-08-19
The reviews that call it chaotic and unfocused are pretty spot on... but that's also the point. It's the subject of the book that's chaotic and unfocused - the structure of the book reinforces that. Terrifying.
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