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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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- De Gary & Jay en 08-23-20
De: Ellen Datlow
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Jack: Secret Histories
- Young Repairman Jack Series 1
- De: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right - where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances - situations...It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse - the victim of ritual murder - in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent Juvenile
- De Douglas Sundseth en 03-13-25
De: F. Paul Wilson
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Fury
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De David en 11-21-07
De: Salman Rushdie
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Spare
- De: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrado por: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 71,726
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 66,187
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65,979
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Gutterball!
- De Jimmyjoejangles en 01-10-23
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Will
- De: Will Smith, Mark Manson
- Narrado por: Will Smith
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 58,386
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52,835
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 52,573
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will sure loves Will
- De Kejeco en 11-18-21
De: Will Smith, y otros
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Summer
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Juliette Burton
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 68
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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Dying of Politeness
- A Memoir
- De: Geena Davis
- Narrado por: Geena Davis
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 777
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 696
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 696
From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her “journey to badassery”—from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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so perfect
- De Kimber en 10-16-22
De: Geena Davis
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He Came in with It
- A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness
- De: Miriam Feldman
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Beautifully Written
- De Michael en 08-01-22
De: Miriam Feldman
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Learning to Die in Miami
- Confessions of a Refugee Boy
- De: Carlos Eire
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962 - a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born. In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent memoir of a forgotten time in history
- De BRB en 03-23-15
De: Carlos Eire
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Permanent Midnight
- A Memoir (20th Anniversary Edition)
- De: Jerry Stahl, Nic Sheff - foreword
- Narrado por: Jerry Stahl, Scott Merriman
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted fans as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Point deduction for the recording
- De Amazon Customer en 11-21-20
De: Jerry Stahl, y otros
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,024
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 717
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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What It Takes
- The Way to the White House
- De: Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 54 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 132
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great political book
- De Hebern en 09-11-20
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Life, Animated
- A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
- De: Ron Suskind
- Narrado por: Ron Suskind
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 345
This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life, Animated ... is Love, Animated *****
- De Tom T. Rumble en 04-12-14
De: Ron Suskind
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The Fourth Child
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Winter
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
- De Madeleine Homan en 04-18-21
De: Jessica Winter
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The Voice of the Night with Short Story, "Silence"
- De: Dean Koontz
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko, Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” From that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine - and too irresistible to stop.
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1 out of 5 stars
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can not believe dean koontz wrote this book
- De Anonymous User en 10-05-21
De: Dean Koontz
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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- De: anonymous
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman, Lyle Lovett, J. Smith-Cameron
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 306
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that of the reclusive real-life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air, and that of the magical Duchess Goldblatt herself, a bright light in the darkness of social media. Fans around the world are drawn to Her Grace's voice, her wit, her life-affirming love for all humanity, and the fun and friendship of the community that's sprung up around her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh Dear Duchess!
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 07-20-20
De: anonymous
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Orfeo
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 198
In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els - the "Bioterrorist Bach" - pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lost Chord
- De Mel en 02-04-14
De: Richard Powers
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The Time of Our Singing
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 33 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 131
On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and - against all odds and better judgment - they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Undigested Erudition
- De Dr. Blue Jacaranda en 11-11-20
De: Richard Powers
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: John Skelley
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 21
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't Waste Your Time.
- De Trevor Morris en 08-01-24
De: Richard Powers
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The Gold Bug Variations
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Duración: 32 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Expectations, Bigger Disappointments
- De tom en 03-23-19
De: Richard Powers
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Operation Wandering Soul
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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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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Plowing the Dark
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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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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Orfeo
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 198
In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els - the "Bioterrorist Bach" - pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lost Chord
- De Mel en 02-04-14
De: Richard Powers
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The Time of Our Singing
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 33 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 131
On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and - against all odds and better judgment - they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Undigested Erudition
- De Dr. Blue Jacaranda en 11-11-20
De: Richard Powers
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: John Skelley
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 21
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't Waste Your Time.
- De Trevor Morris en 08-01-24
De: Richard Powers
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The Gold Bug Variations
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Duración: 32 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Expectations, Bigger Disappointments
- De tom en 03-23-19
De: Richard Powers
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Operation Wandering Soul
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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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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Plowing the Dark
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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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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Galatea 2.2
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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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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Generosity
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
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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Gain
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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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The Echo Maker
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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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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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,608
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,228
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,219
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
- Versión completa
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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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Playground
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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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Brilliant!
- De paperguy en 11-20-24
De: Richard Powers
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The Overstory
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,948
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,703
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,688
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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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 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 248
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 Plague
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: James Jenner
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,067
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,673
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,681
In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth, only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Translator Please!
- De Placeholder en 06-04-11
De: Albert Camus
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So Much Blue
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 119
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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2666
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, y otros
- Duración: 39 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 839
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 846
Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Book I Read or Listened to in 2009
- De William en 01-05-10
De: Roberto Bolaño
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Prisoner's Dilemma
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- 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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