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Julian Barnes
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A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.
If the fear of death is “the most rational thing in the world”, how does one contend with it? An atheist at 20 and an agnostic at 60, Barnes looks into the various arguments for, against, and with God, and at his own bloodline, which has become, following his parents’ death, another realm of mystery.
Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Andrew Lim en 06-14-21
De: Julian Barnes
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The Whiskey Rebellion
- De: William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 345
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 176
A gripping and provocative tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry, armed settlers across the Appalachians. Unearthing a pungent segment of early American history long ignored by historians, William Hogeland brings to startling life the rebellion that decisively contributed to the establishment of federal authority.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story and narration
- De Kismet en 08-12-06
De: William Hogeland
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Elizabeth Finch
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Justin Avoth
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. Her ideas are not to everyone's taste. But she will change the way you see the world. Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration—always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful empathy, she guided her students to develop meaningful ideas and to discover their centers of seriousness. As a former student unpacks her notebooks and remembers her uniquely inquisitive mind, her passion for reason resonates through the years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another masterpiece!
- De Davis Perkins en 08-23-22
De: Julian Barnes
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The Only Story
- A Novel
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Guy Mott
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 196
One summer in the 60s, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged 19, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who's 48, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is also a warm companion, their bond immediate. And they soon, inevitably, are lovers. Clinging to each other as though their lives depend on it, they then set up house in London to escape his parents and the abusive Mr. Mcleod.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best, at this best
- De Joe Kraus en 01-15-20
De: Julian Barnes
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First Love, Last Rites
- Stories
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 22
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Trash
- De Michael en 05-08-23
De: Ian McEwan
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Something to Declare
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Barnes’ appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyperliterate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.
De: Julian Barnes
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The Man in the Red Coat
- De: Julian Barnes
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives which play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. Our guide through this world is Samuel Pozzi, the society doctor, free-thinker, and man of science with a famously complicated private life....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pathetic narration makes this title unbearable
- De Chris Quigg en 02-27-20
De: Julian Barnes
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The Worm at the Core
- On the Role of Death in Life
- De: Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 240
More than 100 years ago, the American philosopher William James wrote that the knowledge that we must die is "the worm at the core" of the human condition - a universally shared fear that informs all our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skeptical at first, but they won me over.
- De Tory Giddens en 06-07-20
De: Jeff Greenberg, y otros
This is a non-fiction title: a personal disquisition on the existence of God, the fear of or confidence in an afterlife, and discordant family relations.
I loved listening to it and will do it again in a year or so... to refresh my memory, to absorb more than what I probably caught at first-listen.
Highly recommended.
Brilliant
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The narration couldn’t have been better.
For everyone over sixty 😉
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Excellent
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