Darcy
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Indonesia, Etc.
- Exploring the Improbable Nation
- By: Elizabeth Pisani
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 156
Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five years, Elizabeth Pisani recently traveled 26,000 miles around the archipelago in search of the links that bind this impossibly disparate nation. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous volcano, and takes tea with a corpse. Along the way, she observes Big Men with child brides, debates corruption and cannibalism, and ponders "sticky" traditions that cannot be erased.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bill Bryson channels Margaret Mead
- By John S. on 09-01-14
- Indonesia, Etc.
- Exploring the Improbable Nation
- By: Elizabeth Pisani
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
Amazing behind-the-scenes look at mostly outlying Indonesia
Reviewed: 03-08-25
Sometimes a bit mired in detail, but not enough to take away from a marvelous, insightful read
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Under the Java Moon
- By: Heather B. Moore
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story5 out of 5 stars 73
Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family’s dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java—living with other Dutch families—had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita’s family is forced to relocate to a POW camp, and Rita must help care for her little brother, Georgie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is an important must read!
- By Nelli Lakatos on 11-25-23
- Under the Java Moon
- By: Heather B. Moore
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
Don't miss reading this!
Reviewed: 02-15-25
Incredible storytelling that covers so much of a little known part of history. The humanity and inhumanity that took place side-by-side makes for an unforgettable story. Very well researched
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My Struggle, Book 3
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 253
A family of four - mother, father, and two boys - move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: The future seems limitless.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Standing in the Twilight with Time
- By Darwin8u on 12-09-15
- My Struggle, Book 3
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Fascinating in an inexplicable way
Reviewed: 03-23-24
The honesty--excruciating, hilarious, heartbreaking, and always revealing-- was like nothing I've ever read. I listened to this volume (Volume 3) because I read that it covered the time period of his life before Volumes 1 and 2. Looking forward to Volume 1.
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Mapping the Darkness
- The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
- By: Kenneth Miller
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn to overcome. Then, an immigrant scientist and his assistant spent a month in the depths of a Kentucky cave, making nationwide headlines and thrusting sleep science to the forefront of our consciousness. Award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller weaves together science and history to tell the story of four outsider scientists who took sleep science from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession through spectacular experiments, technological innovation, and single-minded commitment.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Light on Science
- By Joylabel on 12-14-23
- Mapping the Darkness
- The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
- By: Kenneth Miller
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
Very detailed and interesting
Reviewed: 01-24-24
I came to this book with a love of medical history and interest in the science of sleep. I am glad I listened to it, but even I found it heavy on details that did not seem crucial
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Collision of Power
- Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post
- By: Martin Baron
- Narrated by: Liev Schreiber
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Reminder Of Why We Need Journalists
- By C. Rosen on 12-12-23
- Collision of Power
- Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post
- By: Martin Baron
- Narrated by: Liev Schreiber
This absolutely needed to be written
Reviewed: 11-20-23
Being an editor by trade, this was a wonderfully written account of his years at the Washington Post, dealing with one enormous story to the next --from Wikileaks to Khashoggi's murder to the presidency of Donald Trump-- all by way of the rise of MeToo, the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, and the global pandemic. All of which played out in the coverage they strove to give, and the challenges provoked in their own newsroom.
I found the descriptions of Jeff Bezo's business style and decision-making fascinating.
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Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,195
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,036
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,031
Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences, including the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995, treating the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very impressive..
- By Andrey Borul on 04-19-16
- Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
An excellent listen
Reviewed: 07-13-23
This is a well balanced look into the author's medical and personal experiences at the legendary Cook County Hospital in Chicago, as well as anecdotes from his medical training and volunteer clinic work. The author is intelligent , engaging, and often entertaining. It's not a long listen, and I highly recommend it.
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The Chinese Groove
- A Novel
- By: Kathryn Ma
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful surprise
- By R. Glynn on 02-01-23
- The Chinese Groove
- A Novel
- By: Kathryn Ma
- Narrated by: James Chen
Sorry way to thin and predictable for me
Reviewed: 04-29-23
I finished this book only because I thought it might eventually have more meat to it. Sweet but not worth the time spent.
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 191,360
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 174,954
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Story5 out of 5 stars 174,402
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Certainly one of the best listens
Reviewed: 04-03-23
I'm not a science geek, and science fiction is definitely not my thing, though I enjoy learning interesting sciency stuff. (I loved my recent listen to An Immense World, for example). But this book had it all -- a compelling story that carries you along with characters you will come to love, all read perfectly by the narrator (with some production tricks thrown in that make the reading even better). Don't miss this listen!
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For Blood and Money
- Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
- By: Nathan Vardi
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 198
For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug and how the core team—denied their share of the profits—went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and science, veteran financial journalist Nathan Vardi explains how the invention of two of the biggest cancer drugs in history became (for their backers) two of the greatest Wall Street bets of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must-read for biotech enthusiasts and scientists
- By Anonymous User on 03-16-23
- For Blood and Money
- Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
- By: Nathan Vardi
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Really enjoyed this title
Reviewed: 03-01-23
A great story at the intersection of cutting edge medical science, high -stakes finance, and human personalities and foibles. I found it fascinating to get an inside view on the development of new drugs, whose failures often exceed their promise, while many others sit on shelves waiting for often serendipitous discovery by financiers and corporations.
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Radiant Minds
- The World of Oliver Sacks
- By: Greenlawn Drive Productions, Audiation, Oliver Sacks Foundation
- Narrated by: Indre Viskontas
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 331
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 297
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Story5 out of 5 stars 294
Radiant Minds: The World of Oliver Sacks investigates consciousness, the brain, and the human experience, drawing inspiration from works by the neurologist and beloved author Oliver Sacks. Oliver cared for people with misunderstood neurological conditions at a time when many in the medical community had turned their backs on them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible!!
- By Ricky Scott on 04-15-22
- Radiant Minds
- The World of Oliver Sacks
- By: Greenlawn Drive Productions, Audiation, Oliver Sacks Foundation
- Narrated by: Indre Viskontas
Great listen
Reviewed: 02-20-23
Very enjoyable, thought-provoking, and informative. I highly recommend to anyone, not just science -oriented listeners.
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