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Flint Kill Creek
- Stories of Mystery and Suspense
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Kelli Tager
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant writing; wretched narration!
- De howshermun en 11-16-24
- Flint Kill Creek
- Stories of Mystery and Suspense
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Kelli Tager
Brilliant writing; wretched narration!
Revisado: 11-16-24
The narrator is so aggressively performative that she manages to obscure Joyce Carol Oates’ superb craftsmanship. The vocal delivery bristles with hyper-dramatic intensity, as if the author’s prose requires an extra thick layer of emotional illustration. Every phrase, every image is slathered in shallow, obvious vocal coloring that all but obliterates the subtle complexities of the author’s ingenious story telling.
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The Hours
- De: Michael Cunningham
- Narrado por: Michael Cunningham
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 565
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 381
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours tells the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who in a 1950s Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virginia Woolf, recuperating with her husband in a London suburb and beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway. By the end of the novel, the stories have intertwined, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very literary, intentionally slight plot
- De Steve en 12-02-03
- The Hours
- De: Michael Cunningham
- Narrado por: Michael Cunningham
Wonderful book! Terrible narrator!
Revisado: 11-30-21
The craft and skill and imagination that make up a wonderful writer DO NOT necessarily translate into the craft and skill and imagination that make an excellent narrator. This extraordinary novel deserves a skilled professional to give it voice.
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56,821
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 50,807
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50,474
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite Patchett
- De Regina en 12-07-19
- The Dutch House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
A richly evocative story brilliantly told!!!
Revisado: 05-23-20
A tale so vivid, eccentric, emotionally complex and deeply engaging it feels like it MUST be true. Beautifully written and so very gripping, you don't want to let that world go when it's over. The story, told in the first person, doesn't feel read; it feels lived! Tom Hanks channels the voice of the author with such ease and spontaneity, it seems like a real person reflecting on his real life. It is a perfect melding of author and actor, of actor and text. Rank this as one of Tom Hanks GREAT performances!
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The End of the End of the Earth
- Essays
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The way essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past 25 years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen’s great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Many excellent essays.
- De Barbara S. Smith en 12-21-19
- The End of the End of the Earth
- Essays
- De: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
brilliant! Every essay is a journey onto itself…
Revisado: 12-05-18
The writing and THINKING is superb and brilliantly wrought as one would expect from Jonathan Franzen. Robert Petkoff’s delivery, however, conforms to the prevailing standards of hyper-clarity… A plodding pace, scrupulously articulating every syllable and every ending consonant. Although he is very skilled I find it a bit labored and, on a long drive, exhausting on the ear… I much prefer the more relaxed, conversational - and therefore MUCH CLEARER – delivery of Dennis Boutsikaris (The Human Stain) or Richard Poe (East of Eden). (Not to be hard on Robert Petkoff… He may well have been following the directions of his producer who assumes that, since Jonathan Franzen frequently writes in long, compound, complex sentences, the delivery must be slowed down and exaggerated in the interest of clarity. Actually, (to my ears) the opposite is true: Our brains are NATURALLY TUNED to apprehend the cadences of normal conversation... not to the arduous enunciations of HYPER – CLARITY.
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Bird by Bird
- Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- De: Anne Lamott
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,382
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,980
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,946
A New York Times best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction, Anne Lamott was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. As much a guide to writing as an exploration of the emotional challenges of being a writer, Bird by Bird offers a candid and often humorous look at how to tackle these varied obstacles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A funny listen, but no writing samples to speak of
- De Alice en 04-12-15
- Bird by Bird
- Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- De: Anne Lamott
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
Brilliant book; misguided performance...
Revisado: 08-01-18
I first read this brilliant book many years ago and have reread it several times since. It is deeply wise and very funny. The combination of Anne Lamott's rich insight into the art of living and her liberating, inspirational strategies to approach the craft of writing, all marbled through with her quirky and self-deprecating humor Is endlessly winning and never gets old.
Unfortunately, the narrator here makes Anne Lamott's prose seem cute and perky and (wink, wink) very self-satisfied. It is self-consciously adorable like sit-com acting! After several chapters, I had to close the Audible ap and return to the page to reassure myself of the literary integrity of Anne Lamott's written word...
It's still there! Read the book!
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Between the World and Me
- De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 31,225
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27,579
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27,395
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race”, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of Black women and men - bodies exploited through slavery and segregation and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece
- De T Spencer en 07-30-15
- Between the World and Me
- De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates
scathing, clear-eyed, transcendent wisdom
Revisado: 09-30-16
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the perfect blend of poet, anthropologist, and prophet. He deploys truth like a laser scalpel. He maintains a scrupulous adherence to the actual dimensions of reality and yet a miraculously expansive context unfolds. He examines every perspective. His love is vibrant. His vision is utterly clear, grounded and without guile. in short, he speaks Truth. Prepare to be astounded and to be shaken.Prepare to weep.
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