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Mia Barron
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Eve Babitz
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A collection of original short stories offers an intimate and dark portrait of life in the United States as they journey through California seeking answers to our changing world, dealing with such topics as jealousy, AIDS, sex, and Jim Morrison.
A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s - decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.
©1993 Eve Babitz; 2018 Stephanie Danler (Introduction) (P)2018 Recorded BooksLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: Lauren Weedman
- Narrado por: Lauren Weedman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, she turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually not okay.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De Ajules29 en 04-02-16
De: Lauren Weedman
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Your Voice in My Head
- A Memoir
- De: Emma Forrest
- Narrado por: Emma Forrest
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 350
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 324
Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just 22 and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist--a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, quick read
- De Amazon Customer en 02-12-21
De: Emma Forrest
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All You Could Ask For
- A Novel
- De: Mike Greenberg
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Happily married Brooke discovers her loving husband has led a separate life with…another wife. Newlywed Samantha learns of her husband's cheating heart when she finds the goods on his computer. High-powered career woman Katherine works with heartbreaker Phillip, the man who hurt her early on in her career. Brooke, Samantha, and Katherine don't know one another, but their stories are about to intertwine in ways no one could have imagined. And all three are about to discover the power of friendship to conquer adversity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Annoyed by Hidden Theme
- De parsnip en 08-12-13
De: Mike Greenberg
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God-Shaped Hole
- A Novel
- De: Tiffanie DeBartolo
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
- De Renee en 08-08-18
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The Pull of the Moon
- De: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Berg
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 95
In the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness - and the allure - of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For women over 50
- De Laura en 07-07-15
De: Elizabeth Berg
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Chanel Bonfire
- De: Wendy Lawless
- Narrado por: Wendy Lawless
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one.... Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not an Engaging Listen
- De Sobriquet en 03-13-13
De: Wendy Lawless
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The Night Ocean
- De: Paul La Farge
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 118
Marina Willett, MD, has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Frustratingly Uneven Due to Clumsy Plot Structure
- De Adam en 06-15-17
De: Paul La Farge
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Power & Beauty
- De: Tip "T.I." Harris, David Ritz
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 146
Hip-hop artist Tip "T.I." Harris has received every acclaim the music world has to offer. Now, working with bestselling celebrity collaborator David Ritz, T.I. applies all his talent and experience to the world of fiction by creating the epic love story of Power and Beauty. After the death of his mother, Charlotte, Paul “Power” Clay allows himself to be guided by Slim, a local businessman. Slim always has the best of everything, and Power is sure that if he learns Slim's ways, he'll make something of himself - and perhaps be worthy of Tanya “Beauty” Long.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Suprised by T.I.'s story telling skills
- De Dream en 07-11-12
De: Tip "T.I." Harris, y otros
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Some Girls
- My Life in a Harem
- De: Jillian Lauren
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 431
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 341
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 345
A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser. At 18, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman would pay pretty girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next 18 months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring, Pretentious Book
- De Marcos en 04-23-11
De: Jillian Lauren
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Liberating Paris
- A Novel
- De: Linda Bloodworth Thomason
- Narrado por: Cynthia Darlow
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Woodrow McIlmore, the town's golden boy and local gynecologist, is married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Milan, and seems by all appearances to be leading the perfect life with his two children and extended family and friends. But when Wood's daughter announces that she is smitten with a college classmate and intends to marry him, her parents are stunned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving, a great listen
- De Cynthia en 11-27-05
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- De: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- De Dane Flakeman en 05-21-11
De: Margaux Fragoso
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Humboldt's Gift
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 161
For years, they were the best of friends: the grand, erratic Humboldt and the ambitious young Charlie. But now Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life: he has left Charlie something in his will.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Great Reader
- De Scott en 05-10-08
De: Saul Bellow
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A Fine Romance
- De: Candice Bergen
- Narrado por: Candice Bergen
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 487
A Fine Romance begins with Bergen's charming first husband, French director Louis Malle, whose huge appetite for life broadened her horizons and whose occasional darkness never diminished their love for each other. But her real romance begins when she discovers overpowering love for her daughter after years of ambivalence about motherhood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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up the speed to 1.5 and Candace sounds way better
- De Susan M. Mitchell en 06-03-15
De: Candice Bergen
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I Hate Everyone, Except You
- De: Clinton Kelly
- Narrado por: Clinton Kelly
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore unknown secrets about himself, like that he's a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jersey's premier water parks, and perhaps the world's least enthused high school commencement speaker.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Filthy language overshadowed stories
- De Doris en 04-29-17
De: Clinton Kelly
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The Wife
- A Novel
- De: Meg Wolitzer
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 645
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 573
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 571
The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are 35,000 feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent 40 years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit of a downer
- De Jody Cox en 08-01-18
De: Meg Wolitzer
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After I'm Gone
- A Novel
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Linda Emond
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 845
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 734
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 739
Dead is dead. Missing is gone. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative - if not all legal - businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July in 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband - or his money - might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cannot rate this highly enough!
- De C. Vincent en 03-05-14
De: Laura Lippman
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Eve's Hollywood
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: By the time she'd hit 30, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. She was immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, and Babitz's first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve's Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California's haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun read!
- De Ryan Stanley en 09-11-18
De: Eve Babitz
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Hollywood's Eve
- Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
- De: Lili Anolik
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s was the pop cultural capital of the world - a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA. The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age 20, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph, cheesecake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her notoriety.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious
- De Kim en 01-11-20
De: Lili Anolik
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Slow Days, Fast Company
- The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of LA in the 1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her firsthand experiences in the LA cultural scene, translated into haunting fiction, are an unforgettable glimpse at a lost world and a magical time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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obsessed with Eve
- De Debbie L. Smith en 06-25-20
De: Eve Babitz
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I Used to Be Charming
- The Rest of Eve Babitz
- De: Eve Babitz, Sara Kramer - Editor, Molly Lambert - introduction
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Eve Babitz knew everyone, tried everything (at least once), and was never shy about sharing her thoughts on any subject, be it sex, weight loss, drug use, or her ambivalence toward New York City. From the 1970s through the 1990s, Babitz wrote on a wild variety of topics for some of the biggest publications around, from Esquire to Vogue to The New York Times Book Review. I Used to Be Charming brings together this nonfiction work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Only Thing Wrong - the Narrator
- De SusanV en 10-25-19
De: Eve Babitz, y otros
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L.A. Woman
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a 20-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A.; and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the '20s to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and that Rudolph Valentino is the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga, know that while L.A. is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal.
De: Eve Babitz
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Sex and Rage
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She's a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the city's pretty creatures, blithely drinking pink ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adored all of the characters—even the insufferable ones
- De Sarah en 01-04-23
De: Eve Babitz
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Eve's Hollywood
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: By the time she'd hit 30, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. She was immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, and Babitz's first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve's Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California's haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun read!
- De Ryan Stanley en 09-11-18
De: Eve Babitz
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Hollywood's Eve
- Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
- De: Lili Anolik
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s was the pop cultural capital of the world - a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA. The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age 20, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph, cheesecake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her notoriety.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious
- De Kim en 01-11-20
De: Lili Anolik
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Slow Days, Fast Company
- The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of LA in the 1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her firsthand experiences in the LA cultural scene, translated into haunting fiction, are an unforgettable glimpse at a lost world and a magical time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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obsessed with Eve
- De Debbie L. Smith en 06-25-20
De: Eve Babitz
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I Used to Be Charming
- The Rest of Eve Babitz
- De: Eve Babitz, Sara Kramer - Editor, Molly Lambert - introduction
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Eve Babitz knew everyone, tried everything (at least once), and was never shy about sharing her thoughts on any subject, be it sex, weight loss, drug use, or her ambivalence toward New York City. From the 1970s through the 1990s, Babitz wrote on a wild variety of topics for some of the biggest publications around, from Esquire to Vogue to The New York Times Book Review. I Used to Be Charming brings together this nonfiction work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Only Thing Wrong - the Narrator
- De SusanV en 10-25-19
De: Eve Babitz, y otros
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L.A. Woman
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a 20-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A.; and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the '20s to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and that Rudolph Valentino is the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga, know that while L.A. is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal.
De: Eve Babitz
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Sex and Rage
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She's a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the city's pretty creatures, blithely drinking pink ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adored all of the characters—even the insufferable ones
- De Sarah en 01-04-23
De: Eve Babitz
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Play It as It Lays
- A Novel (FSG Classics)
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 24
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the listener. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul—it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For every woman who’s been told to be the good wife
- De Otter Pop en 11-08-24
De: Joan Didion
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Didion and Babitz
- De: Lili Anolik
- Narrado por: Lili Anolik, Emma Roberts
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972. Joan Didion, revealed at last… Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin, and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and centered on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I’m still Team Joan
- De Dorothy L. Lipman en 11-16-24
De: Lili Anolik
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The White Album
- Essays (FSG Classics)
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Susan Varon
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You Feel Like You Are There
- De Kelly Jo en 07-15-24
De: Joan Didion
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Maya Hawke
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking Essays
- De NRo en 03-07-25
De: Joan Didion
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Sweetbitter
- A Novel
- De: Stephanie Danler
- Narrado por: Alex McKenna
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,013
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,793
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 1,798
Twenty-two and knowing no one, Tess leaves home to begin her adult life in New York City. Thus begins a year that is both enchanting and punishing in a low-level job at “the best restaurant in New York City”. Grueling hours and a steep culinary learning curve awaken her to the beauty of oysters, the finest champagnes, the appellations of Burgundy. At the same time, she opens herself to friendships - and love - set against the backdrop of dive bars and late nights.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Set Your Expectations Accordingly
- De FanB14 en 06-24-16
De: Stephanie Danler
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Brutes
- A Novel
- De: Dizz Tate
- Narrado por: Eleanor McCormick
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 18
In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No idea what was happening at any time
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-24
De: Dizz Tate
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Near to the Wild Heart
- De: Clarice Lispector
- Narrado por: Rebecca Morris
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence. Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a 23-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING!
- De Gordy en 04-11-18
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Eileen
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,396
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,393
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
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Motherthing
- De: Ainslie Hogarth
- Narrado por: Adina Verson
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 159
When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story with horrible narration
- De Calliope en 09-18-23
De: Ainslie Hogarth
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Down the Drain
- De: Julia Fox
- Narrado por: Julia Fox
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,700
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,604
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,602
Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Zero Character Growth.
- De Alisa en 11-27-23
De: Julia Fox
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- De: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrado por: Stephen J. Dubner
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,289
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,370
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,355
Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang...the truth about real-estate agents...the secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but be careful
- De Shackleton en 07-03-08
De: Steven D. Levitt, y otros
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The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
- Incerto, Book 2
- De: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,743
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,733
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but over the top
- De Anonymous User en 08-08-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Black Swans
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- Ariana Sweany
- 10-29-24
Torrid affairs @ Chateau Marmont
Interesting but empty . Good for passive listening during work or driving. I liked the ‘vibe of the book’ more than the actual book.
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- Sharon Soo
- 08-30-23
Brilliant!!!
Made me laugh out loud, and view LA with new eyes! Like a perfect jewel box of sparkling anecdotes.
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- Yo Mama
- 02-28-24
Love love love
Eve babitz always pops off BUT MIA IS SUCH A GOOD NARRATOR OMG!!! So peak woman!!!!
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- Etoile NEOhio
- 10-20-24
Joan Didion "lite"
i really liked the story about "Tango". I found the introduction confusing and the story "Black Swans" in the "meh" category. Nice for a short book about the LA of the "70s". Good narrator.
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