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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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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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Not my favorite Patchett
- De Regina en 12-07-19
- The Dutch House
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Tom Hanks
abstinence of any deep idea
Revisado: 01-16-24
just a story. did not involve me in any way. what did she want to say ? would not recommend.
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1Q84
- De: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Duración: 46 h y 45 m
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
- De Amanda en 11-06-11
- 1Q84
- De: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
disappointment
Revisado: 01-24-23
author designed a super complicated plot . he keeps a reader in suspension because you want to see a resolution of all puzzles and want to un-tie all knots. But then he simply drops the story and ends it with a kindergarden level happy end. did it worth 35 hours of listening ?
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The Kindly Ones
- De: Jonathan Littell
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 39 h y 6 m
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The chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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Office politics in hell
- De Maine Colonial 🌲 en 04-02-13
- The Kindly Ones
- De: Jonathan Littell
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Example of bad literature in disguise of good.
Revisado: 09-17-22
A loooot of words not clear why. The main intrigue does not have much sense. Author continues to maintain this main intrigue throughout the story and it ends with nothing. Main character does not tell me anything about human nature (I guess this was the idea of the author) Anyway this is the first and the last book by this author for me.
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The Key to Rebecca
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: Tim Downie
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent is on the loose in Cairo. His mission is to send Rommel’s advancing army the secrets that will unlock the city’s doors. In all of Cairo, only two people can stop him. One is a down-on-his-luck English officer no one will listen to. The other is a vulnerable young Jewish girl....
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Christ the Savior
- De camille hobbs en 03-23-21
- The Key to Rebecca
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: Tim Downie
boring and illogical
Revisado: 06-24-21
probably one of worst book by usually entertaining author. starting from the mid-book and going through chain of events which do not have sense, you are thinking: when will it finish?
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State of Emergency
- How We Win in the Country We Built
- De: Tamika D. Mallory
- Narrado por: Tamika D. Mallory
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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From Minneapolis to Louisville, to Portland, Kenosha, and Washington, DC, America’s reckoning with its unmet promises on race and class is at a boiling point not seen since the 1960s. While conversations around pathways to progress take place on social media and cable TV, history tells us that meaningful change only comes with radical legislation and boots-on-the-ground activism. Here, Mallory shares her unique personal experience building coalitions, speaking truth to power, and winning over hearts and minds in the struggle for shared prosperity and safety.
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A Must read for everyone!
- De Linda S en 05-15-21
- State of Emergency
- How We Win in the Country We Built
- De: Tamika D. Mallory
- Narrado por: Tamika D. Mallory
Jumble of Hatred
Revisado: 05-22-21
By the genre this book is very close to the famous " Mein Kamf". That book is also about struggle; about promoting one superior race (Arians) which is humiliated and abused by another inferior race (Jews) ; about hatred to the whole world. Just replace this humiliated superior race with Blacks and the inferior race with Whites and you will get this book. Hatred to the whole world is no need to replace - it is there. I am shaken and scared - the goal of the Author was achieved.
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A Woman in Jerusalem
- De: A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin - translator
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery's owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. He's at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman's life take shape—she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union.
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A bit of black humor
- De Nancy en 05-21-23
- A Woman in Jerusalem
- De: A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin - translator
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
So artificial story !
Revisado: 10-18-20
Artificial story with very little sense. Literature itself is OK but what is in it ? Would not recommend to anybody. returning the book.
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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
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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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The Best Book I Read or Listened to in 2009
- De William en 01-05-10
- 2666
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner
Terrible and utterly strange
Revisado: 05-01-20
One of the worst books I ever read. Looks like the author had one goal - to write as many pages as possible. He ended up with a jumble of unrelated stories, loose ends leading to nowhere. Terrible, terrible. At the same time, it is obvious that the author is a professional and skillful writer in terms of the literary technique . It turned out that he wrote a lot but after this book I would not take a risk to start any of his other books.
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Inside, Outside
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 25 h y 55 m
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Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a hassled and distracted President Nixon, Goodkind also witnesses historical events firsthand - the Watergate scandal, the Yom Kippur War - and eventually finds his way back to his Jewish faith.
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One of the greatest storytellers!
- De Dwight en 12-11-18
- Inside, Outside
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
Exellent idea , too boring in details
Revisado: 03-17-20
Idea is excellent, Implementation is so booooring. Hard to get to the end. The narrator is excellent.
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False Nine
- De: Philip Kerr
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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Football manager Scott Manson needs a new job, but finding one in the star-studded world of international football isn't easy. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation - and in Barcelona, he's not hired as a football manager but as a detective. Barca's star player is missing, and Scott has a month to track him down. As Scott follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters the rotten heart of the beautiful game....
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Entertaining and interesting
- De Alex en 01-25-25
- False Nine
- De: Philip Kerr
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
one of the worst books I read lately
Revisado: 11-23-19
Nothing what you normally expect to find in a good book : characters, interesting thoughts and observations, good story , can be found here. Terrible.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
does not make sense
Revisado: 07-21-19
When Dan Brown writes his thrillers, everybody (at least those with brains) understands that it is a complete fiction having nothing to do with reality. When Amor Towels writes his book (which turns to be thriller but you learn about it in the last chapter) , he pretends to be describing events in their real environment. Doing this, he did not make any effort to learn how this real environment looked in the Soviet Union. I can imagine that he traveled to Moscow and stayed in this famous hotel somewhere in 2005 or 2010 and then projected what he saw to 60-70 years back. But he did not suspect how dramatically different life was at that time compare to what he saw in the 2000-s. If he knew, he wouldn't write this book, the whole premise of which does not make any sense both in general idea , as well as in many-many details.
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