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Simon Vance
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Paul Strathern
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Borges in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Borges' life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Borges' chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 994
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
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The Art of War
- De: Sun Tzu
- Narrado por: Aidan Gillen
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,973
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34,784
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,365
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
- De Nemo71 en 12-31-19
De: Sun Tzu
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Say No More
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Anna Skellern
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,471
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,471
Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seriously, that was the ending?
- De alicia in athens en 02-13-25
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Hitchhikers
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun listening.
- De Hottie en 03-15-25
De: Ben H. Winters
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Master of Salt & Bones
- De: Keri Lake
- Narrado por: Stefanie Kay, Ryan West
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 666
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 629
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 629
When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 STARS
- De AudioObsessed en 03-12-23
De: Keri Lake
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Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,994
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,364
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,320
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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The House on the Water
- A Novella
- De: Margot Hunt
- Narrado por: Taylor Schilling
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,373
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,073
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,025
Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- De David M. Wilcox en 12-04-20
De: Margot Hunt
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He Who Fights with Monsters 2
- A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2)
- De: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 29,184
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25,568
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25,513
But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contrary to common reviews
- De Karen en 05-21-21
De: Shirtaloon, y otros
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Brain Damage
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,464
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,337
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,336
As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
- De Jennifer Chichester en 09-16-22
De: Freida McFadden
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Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 245
Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing performance
- De Andrew Reynolds en 12-28-24
De: Amy Herzog
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The Grandmother
- De: Jane E. James
- Narrado por: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,750
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,683
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,683
Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not too outlandish
- De Jackie H en 12-14-24
De: Jane E. James
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau's ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who encouraged the introduction of both liberty and irrationality into the public domain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- De L Mark Higgins en 08-01-12
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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Beckett in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Beckett's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Beckett's chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done invaluableB
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 367
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was, "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question could not simply be "analyzed away". It was beyond the reach of logic or reason. It was the primary "given" of every individual life. To confront it, Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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not a fair treatment
- De Robert en 07-16-07
De: Paul Strathern
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
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- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 455
After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author doesn’t actually like Dostoevsky
- De Customer en 07-11-21
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
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General4 out of 5 stars 992
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 822
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 817
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shallow and misleading
- De Mark G en 07-17-04
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre's hands, it became a revolt against European bourgeois values.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- De L Mark Higgins en 08-01-12
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
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In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau's ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who encouraged the introduction of both liberty and irrationality into the public domain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- De L Mark Higgins en 08-01-12
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Beckett in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Beckett's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Beckett's chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done invaluableB
- De Amazon Customer en 11-19-23
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
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One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was, "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question could not simply be "analyzed away". It was beyond the reach of logic or reason. It was the primary "given" of every individual life. To confront it, Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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not a fair treatment
- De Robert en 07-16-07
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
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- Duración: 2 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author doesn’t actually like Dostoevsky
- De Customer en 07-11-21
De: Paul Strathern
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With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shallow and misleading
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre's hands, it became a revolt against European bourgeois values.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The title says it all
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De: Paul Strathern
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James Joyce in 90 Minutes
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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From a young age, James Joyce showed a precocious and original intellect and a confidence in his own artistic destiny. He would indeed go on to transform the nature of modern literature, employing a unique stream-of-consciousness technique rich in symbolism and wordplay. Through his art, the Dublin native sought to reveal the radiance and meaning that lurks in the everyday world - "the soul of the commonest object" - evoking a heightened sense of consciousness within the grit of common life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Enigma
- De VJD en 12-07-20
De: Paul Strathern
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Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection. Under the influence of the Bloomsbury Group and their progressive social attitudes, she became experimental in her life and art, breaking with convention to produce some of the finest and most unique literary works of the 20th century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Psychobabble
- De Steven en 10-05-11
De: Paul Strathern
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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Latin American literature was never primitive; yet, from its beginnings, it was suffused with a fresh, often childish lyricism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage, but he is a modern rarity: a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the richest literary dreams ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, a way to get through 100 Years!
- De Lissa en 10-27-09
De: Paul Strathern
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Kafka in 90 Minutes
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- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
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A handsome recluse, plagued by indecision and hypochondria, Franz Kafka nonetheless exhibited an extraordinary strength. He developed the uncanny ability to observe himself with cool objectivity, and he cultivated this ability in his writing, where it appeared in increasingly original metaphorical form. His works became among the greatest of the twentieth century, and his influence permeated far and wide, transcending literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Samantha Cohen en 12-13-20
De: Paul Strathern
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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2 out of 5 stars
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Less progressive opinion, more on Plato
- De Josiah Brunette en 09-08-21
De: Paul Strathern
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to. His well-meaning platitudes, quaint maxims, and quasi-enigmatic anecdotes combined to produce an ideal philosophy for civil servants. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils into good government officials, but his teachings succeeded beyond his wildest expectations, providing rules of conduct and spiritual fodder for more than two thousand years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The author seems to dislike Confucius
- De DMC en 06-07-06
De: Paul Strathern
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hatchet Job
- De Joseph en 05-13-05
De: Paul Strathern
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability that permitted the development of structured thought and intellectual embellishment of unparalleled degree.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A mixed bag
- De RAC en 11-26-05
De: Paul Strathern
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 469
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David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which neither religion nor science is certain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A cynical history of philosophy
- De Kindle Customer en 12-07-10
De: Paul Strathern
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us to see the phenomena of the world, though never its true reality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Kant lite
- De CyberMind en 05-25-04
De: Paul Strathern
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great intros
- De Peter en 09-05-04
De: Paul Strathern
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Borges in 90 Minutes
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- SRP
- 02-01-21
Why is Strathern so obsessed with Borges sex life?
I wish the author would have focused more on Borges' works and their importance rather than disparaging the imagery Borges used. Additionally, the author goes on and on about Borges' sex life. Mention this once or twice and I'm fine with it but Strathern mentions it every five minutes and this is supposed to be a brief summary of the author not and critique of his personal life.
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- 09-01-23
Intro to Borges
This is a very good intro to or brush up/Review on Borges. The narration by the reliable Simon Vance is very well done.
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- Dr.
- 02-01-23
Good Summary
I learned many new things about Borges in a short space of time. this is an adventure in this making of myths.
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- isabel B.
- 09-20-20
Great way to know about Borges work!and life
Loved it and made the audio book of Borge's cuentos (in Spanish)much more understandable .great performance and very well written my thanks to the author of this audio book!
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- James Carl Barsz, MD
- 04-18-16
Jorge Luis Borges
I learned of Borges by a reference in Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Bhagavad Gita; I am fascinated by his manipulation of time and reality. I enjoyed this book.
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- Paul M Ramsey
- 06-04-22
and enjoyable mistake
I grabbed this book by accident cuz I thought it was about different historical figure. continue listening due to the narration and just subject matter. they were both interesting and well spoken. learned something new today
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- Justin Alvarado
- 08-20-23
A as stellar reflection on this labyrinthine figure
What else is there to say? READ THIS! It’s a as stellar reflection on this labyrinthine figure ;)
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- Lawrence T Kent
- 01-28-24
concise, thoughtful, enjoyable
well read with pleasant voice, nicely concise summary of Borges life and work, not fawning but kind and fair. Borges was a unique genius.
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- M.Biblioswine
- 12-05-20
It is one of the better
It is one of the better ...in 90 Minutes books. The author has sympathy for Borges and so he is treated with respect for his work.
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- Living_Bookshelf
- 05-08-21
Excellent overview
I liked hearing about his biography, an overview of his work (I didn’t realize he was still around in the 80s!) and commentary about his stories.
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