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Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.
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Generosity
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 88
What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All About Fiction
- De James en 11-30-10
De: Richard Powers
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The Echo Maker
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much time for a boring story
- De HannahMK en 08-06-20
De: Richard Powers
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Operation Wandering Soul
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. Tired and overworked, surgical resident Richard Kraft finds his protective shell shattered when, along with his physiotherapist, he begins to view the children's ward of the hospital. Determined to give hope where there is none, the adults spin a desperate anthology of stories that promise restoration and escape.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor performance
- De Amazon Customer en 03-16-24
De: Richard Powers
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Gain
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in 19th-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown.
De: Richard Powers
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Plowing the Dark
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not quite sure how to take this one...
- De Matthew en 05-14-20
De: Richard Powers
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,617
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,235
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,226
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Usually a Richard Powers Fan
- De Billy en 09-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
- De: William Poundstone
- Narrado por: Rich Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Should you watch public television without pledging? Exceed the posted speed limit? Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications make the prisoner's dilemma one of the great unifying concepts of science. Watching poker players bluff inspired John von Neumann to construct game theory, a mathematical study of conflict and deception.
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Galatea 2.2
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, a cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Complex verbiage with a very self-centered focus
- De Trevor C. en 07-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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Salvation City
- A Novel
- De: Sigrid Nunez
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 10
After losing both parents to a flu pandemic that seriously threatens his own life as well, 13-year-old Cole Vining is sent to live with an evangelical pastor and his wife in Salvation City, a small town in southern Indiana. There, Cole feels sheltered and loved but never as if he truly belongs. Everything about his new home is vastly different from the secular world in which he was raised.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Beginning, No Ending
- De Root VanDorn en 10-20-10
De: Sigrid Nunez
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Summer
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Juliette Burton
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 69
Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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terrific book, beautifully read.
- De Sasha en 02-07-21
De: Ali Smith
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Playground
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 689
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 632
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a tremendous story
- De Deb Hatch en 11-08-24
De: Richard Powers
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So Much Blue
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children, not his best friend, Richard, not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of 12 feet by 21 feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audio version is annoying
- De Krykie en 11-25-17
De: Percival Everett
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The Morning Star
- De: Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Edoardo Ballerini, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 283
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 252
It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great read for religious scholars
- De matt m en 01-13-22
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The Overstory
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,985
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,737
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,722
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- De Michael Stansberry en 05-23-18
De: Richard Powers
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- Rosa Belle
- 11-11-19
DEEP AS THE FOREST
As you begin this marvelous work, I offer this advice: pay attention, watch what moves in the periphery, and keep going, no matter what.
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