Harry Seaward
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Bad City
- Peril and Power in the City of Angels
- De: Paul Pringle
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 358
On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is the largest private employer in the city of L.A., and it casts a long shadow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow.
- De Anna en 07-22-22
- Bad City
- Peril and Power in the City of Angels
- De: Paul Pringle
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
I Can’t Believe He Wrote An Entire Book About This
Revisado: 02-21-23
I can’t believe this guy managed to stretch the story of reporting one story into an entire book. It’s a medium interesting story and all, but Jesus Christ he treats the news of a doctor doing drugs with his sugar baby like it’s Watergate. And then half the book is him reacting to seemingly normal sounding edits of his story like his coworkers are trying to censor the pentagon papers. It was interesting enough that I kept going but I’ve never seen someone put this much time into descriptions of every petty workplace squabble, down to including full texts of his Strongly Worded Emails. Get a grip, dude.
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We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 701
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 608
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 600
Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. In this urgent book, award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton distills hundreds of interviews, thousands of court documents, and countless hours of video footage to present the definitive account of the entire scandal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard to Follow
- De Dmez en 05-17-21
- We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
Equalize Your Audio!
Revisado: 01-26-23
This was like half yell half whisper. This isn’t a Pixies song, equalize your damned audio.
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
- Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- De: Mark Rozzo
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple—Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—lived out the emblematic love story of ’60s L.A.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- De Rob en 06-07-22
- Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
- Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- De: Mark Rozzo
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
Stick with it
Revisado: 08-23-22
I almost checked out when the author spent far too much time describing Hopper and Hayward’s respective childhoods, but I’m glad I did because the meat of the book was fantastic.
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Nein, Nein, Nein!
- One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
- De: Jerry Stahl
- Narrado por: Jerry Stahl
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling would be appropriate.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Insufferable
- De Harry Seaward en 07-30-22
- Nein, Nein, Nein!
- One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
- De: Jerry Stahl
- Narrado por: Jerry Stahl
Insufferable
Revisado: 07-30-22
Subject matter had me intrigued, but this guy writes like if David Simon’s most self-satisfied tweets and Dennis Miller’s most tortured analogies had a baby. Just pulsating with smugness. Feel like there might be something here if he dialed down the trying too hard like three notches? I gave it a decent shot but I just couldn’t.
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Hollywood Park
- A Memoir
- De: Mikel Jollett
- Narrado por: Mikel Jollett
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,944
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,717
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,706
Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An honest and heartbreakingly beautiful memoir
- De Jeannete Coronel en 05-28-20
- Hollywood Park
- A Memoir
- De: Mikel Jollett
- Narrado por: Mikel Jollett
Why music why???
Revisado: 07-08-20
I’m enjoying this story but I want to strangle the audiobook director. Who decided putting random musical interludes underneath the narration was a good idea? Let an audiobook be an audiobook, dammit.
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Badasses
- The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders
- De: Peter Richmond
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
A book that explores the enduring legends of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders, Badasses is the definitive biography of arguably the last team to play old-fashioned tough-guy football. Peter Richmond, co-author of the New York Times best seller The Glory Game, offers a fascinating look at the 1970s Oakland Raiders, led by colorful greats from another era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, slightly obnoxious author and reader
- De Harry Seaward en 01-06-19
- Badasses
- The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders
- De: Peter Richmond
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
Good story, slightly obnoxious author and reader
Revisado: 01-06-19
The storytelling and interviews are pretty great, though any time the author pontificates on the “real” days of football it’s fairly intolerable. The former outweighs the latter. The reader also way overdoes it, especially the way he constantly overemphasizes the word “badass”, but you do eventually get used to him.
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Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,355
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,109
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,100
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and to cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve....
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5 out of 5 stars
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the fight for civil rights
- De Jean en 01-17-14
- Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
Great, Compelling Read
Revisado: 04-30-16
I couldn't put it down, of whatever the audiobook equivalent of that is. An engrossing story of southern cronyism.
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,553
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,862
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,858
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819 the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with 20 crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than 90 days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, and disease and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio must have been fixed
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-18
- In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
Great book, worst-produced audiobook I've heard.
Revisado: 10-19-14
The book is great. The audiobook production is quite possibly the worst I've heard. The reader is fine, but the production cuts off the last two or three words of every chapter, and the next one will start with such a different room tone and EQ that it barely even sounds like the same person. Again, a great book, but someone needs to get in there and fix the audiobook ASAP. Few things as aggravating as every chapter cutting off.
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