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On Stories and Storytelling
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Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman
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From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art - the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.
One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story - from his own books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and the Brothers Grimm, among others - and delves into the role of story in education, religion, and science. At once personal and wide-ranging, Daemon Voices is both a revelation of the writing mind and the methods of a great contemporary master and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself.
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Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” ( Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than 40 years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary nonfiction. A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling.
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Not a guide on writing personal essays
- De A. Yoshida en 08-07-13
De: Phillip Lopate
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The Art of Fiction
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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Ayn Rand discusses how a writer combines abstract ideas with concrete action and description to achieve a unity of theme, plot, characterization, and style, the four essential elements of fiction. Here, too, are Rand's illuminating analyses of passages from famous writers, rewrites of scenes from her own works, and fascinating rules for building dramatic plots and characters with depth.
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Get Stein on Writing
- De Lois en 12-04-09
De: Ayn Rand
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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Angels and Ages
- A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
- De: Adam Gopnik
- Narrado por: Adam Gopnik
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday on February 12, 1809, this insightful account sheds new light on two men who changed the way we think about the meaning of life and death. Award-winning journalist Adam Gopnik's unique perspective, combined with previously unexplored stories and figures, reveals two men planted firmly at the roots of modern views and liberal values.
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Connecting Darwin and Lincoln
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: Adam Gopnik
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A Life Observed
- A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis
- De: Devin Brown
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.
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A beautifully written remembrance
- De Rob en 02-06-18
De: Devin Brown
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The Fellowship
- The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- De: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
- Narrado por: John Curless
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C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
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If You Love Literature...
- De Ray M en 07-14-16
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Measure for Measure
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Royal Shakespeare Company
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A performance of the tragi-comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo, is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelo's first act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman who has gotten his betrothed, Juliet, with child.
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Highly recommended
- De Todd en 10-16-08
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Bookworm
- A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- De: Lucy Mangan
- Narrado por: Lucy Mangan
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When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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The author’s sarcasm
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De: Lucy Mangan
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On Elizabeth Bishop
- De: Colm Tóibín
- Narrado por: John Keating
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In this book novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences - the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.
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- De chetyarbrough.blog en 05-19-16
De: Colm Tóibín
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis
- Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
- De: Alister McGrath
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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Have you ever wondered…whether God exists? whether life has meaning? Whether pain and suffering have a purpose? This audiobook is my invitation to sit down with C. S. Lewis and me to think about some of the persistent questions and dilemmas every person faces in life. We’ll explore Lewis’s thoughts on everything from friendships to heaven, from the reasons for faith to the power of stories.
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A great overview
- De Kevin en 12-31-14
De: Alister McGrath
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- De: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
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- Mathew Mader
- 03-22-20
Fascinating
A really interesting take on the art of writing, combined with the insights of a brilliant man.
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- 03-15-19
Great performance by the Author
Loved hearing Phillip Pullman read his own essays. It was like being at his talks!
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- geryxyz
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Read it. You don't have to agree with it.
An essential book about story telling and the art of literature. You don't have to agree everything he says but you have to think about it.
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- Isabel Amarantino
- 09-25-21
A double-edged sword
These essays made me like and dislike the author a little bit more. On one hand, he shows a sensibility for art, poetry and craft I would’ve never guessed. I love the way he thinks about illustrations and his overall eccletic taste.
However, as many reviews have stated, he has a very unflattering opinion about religion and fantasy. I was expecting that and thought I would sympathize, but the anger that transpires in his last essays is very unsettling.
I would like him to acknowledge he is not above people who believe in God. As he said himself, it’s the morality that counts. His work is wonderful, but it is certainly not great enough to be so despising of other fantasy authors. And no, His Dark Materials are not the only profound books of fantasy out there, and he is old enough to know them.
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- Amanda B.
- 11-27-18
Challenging, thoughtful literary journey
I personally loved listening the Philip Pullman reread/retell/regive his lectures and essays. He has a compelling voice that is enhanced by his thoughtful, well-read, well-crafted prose. If he read this review he'd probably cynically chide me for a gushing review, but I respectfully reserve the right to give credit where credit is due. As a lifelong reader, writer, learner and thinker, Pullman's critical, brutal honesty about and genuine love of storytelling and the craft challenge my notions of what it means to craft a story, to me, to society, to the world, to time. His references to classical literature are stark contrasts to what he's known for (children's literature) and this juxatposition challenges the listener to break out of their notions about the genre. I also ppreciated his sharp criticism of the modern education system. Although I am an American, I can see the similarities. Finally, the works chosen for this compilation are especially timely. It was eerie to hear how much of Pullman's early warning echo into current times (end of 2018).
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- Jessie S.
- 03-14-19
Varying topics mean varying reactions.
I agree with nearly everything he says, but Philip Pullman has what can only be described, ironically, as a "holier than thou" attitude on some topics which makes a few of these essays a little difficult to listen to. I love his ferocity, his conviction, his ideas, his works, but I would definitely not want to get on his bad side. My favorite of these essays are the ones that focus most on storytelling.
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- Morgan
- 10-04-20
Entertaining and Profound
The insights into story would inspire and inform any writer. Gloriously full of wisdom. Gloriously free of theory.
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- Cyndera
- 08-05-21
Blasphemous in the best way possible
I could have saved myself a lot of money and simply listened to this collection of essays on writing, story and philosophy instead of my mediocre education in creative writing. Tune into the true craft, and many truths, in Daemon Voices.
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- skzip888
- 09-04-21
Old dude give unsolicited life advise.
The lectures near the beginning are serviceable and relevant to storytelling but the unsolicited life advise near the end becomes insufferable. The "Republic of Heaven" is just more condescending "leave it cleaner than you found it" lectures from someone who clearly used to teach kids and had an uncomfortable "stiff upper lip" connotation that I didn't cate for. Also, Pullman is one of those "I don't consider my work Fantasy" writers who dismisses the genre and would rather be giving lectures on Milton and Derrida.
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- Luna
- 08-03-19
Mixed views
The first few lectures were really interesting. He talked about writing fiction and I enjoyed them very much. I listened to the first three in a row, but after that I really struggled to finish. It took me several months. The lectures started to become repetitive, then they became really boring, to be honest, and the final two preechy and annoying.
I believe in a higher power and he went on and on about how one shouldn't preach about your faith to others, which I don't, because I respect other people's opinions and agree that making arguments about something you can't prove to anyone is pointless. But then he became hypocritical, because he himself was preaching about not believing in higher power, to the point of implying that we all believers were idiots because there was nothing there to believe in. That really annoyed me. I don't care what other people think or believe or don't believe in, including him, but talking down to others is not ok. It was like he was doing to others what he didn't like being done to him. I'm not sure if that was his intention or not, but he could have tried to be more diplomatic about the topic. Nobody likes being talked down to.
I started out really liking him as an author and lecturer and then disliking him as a person in the end. I still gave it three stars because the first lectures were good. I would even go so far to recommend to prospective writers to listen to those. The rest was "mehh."
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