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Polio
- An American Story
- De: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 426
This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-22-08
- Polio
- An American Story
- De: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
Extraordinarily Researched
Revisado: 12-10-11
Oshinsky's book is thoroughly researched and documented. A compelling and comprehensive history of Polio.
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The House of Mirth
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fine reading of a great classic
- De Everett Leiter en 09-02-05
- The House of Mirth
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
Wonderful novel and excellent reader
Revisado: 11-05-11
I regularly listen to audiobooks, and I loved every second of this one. I highly recommend it and can't wait to listen to Age of Innocence next.
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A Walk in the Woods
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,206
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,211
After 20 years in Britain, Bryson returned to the U.S. and decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. This is his humorous, inspiring account.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the unforgetable stroll....
- De DocEdward en 12-17-02
- A Walk in the Woods
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
Okay, I guess...
Revisado: 06-17-11
I was quite surprised how boring this book was considering the rave reviews it got. I found the narration tediously slow and I think I missed the "funny" parts in the book. Occasionally, Bryson has an interesting 'turn of phrase' but it's not a book that will resonate with me or that I would recommend.
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Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
- Duración: 21 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,949
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,981
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Anything but middle.
- De Michael en 05-04-03
- Middlesex
- De: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Narrado por: Kristoffer Tabori
Incredible book and excellent narration
Revisado: 02-08-11
I've been listening to audiobooks for more than 10 years and this is one of the best audiobooks I've ever heard. The story is fantastic and perfect for an audiobook, which is great since this narrator is one of the best I've heard. I was a bit apprehensive because the audiobook is 21 hours long, but it's such an interesting story and compelling narration that I haven't lost interest. I highly recommend this book.
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The Hours
- De: Michael Cunningham
- Narrado por: Michael Cunningham
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 569
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 390
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 385
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
Terrible Narration
Revisado: 09-21-10
I've listened to so many books and this narration is one of the worst I've heard. Believe what everyone says: It's terrible. It's unbelievable how Cunningham doesn't even understand the cadence of his own prose. It's like he doesn't even understand the beauty of his own words and sentences. I wish I hadn't wasted a credit on this book. I would rather have read it than listened to Cunningham butcher his own prose.
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The Shadow of the Wind
- De: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,914
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,446
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,460
Barcelona, 1945: Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his 11th birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Have the book handy
- De Rebecca en 07-17-05
- The Shadow of the Wind
- De: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
Amazing book and great narration
Revisado: 08-30-10
This book is amazing! It took a bit of time to get into it, but after I did, I couldn't put it down. It was so well-written and the narration was so wonderful. Highly recommend this one.
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The Joy Luck Club
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Gwendoline Yeo
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 368
In 1949, four Chinese women drawn together by the shadow of their past begin meeting in San Francisco to play Mah Jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. Nearly 40 years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Liked Amy Tan's narration better...
- De Kathy en 11-28-07
- The Joy Luck Club
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Gwendoline Yeo
Terrible Narration and Terrible Production
Revisado: 08-30-10
Awful. I wish I could get my money back. The production sounds terrible and the narration is awful. I've listened to many, many books and I can't finish this one.
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No Country for Old Men
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,581
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12,055
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,046
Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional, engrossing, frightening.
- De P. Giorgio en 07-27-13
- No Country for Old Men
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
Difficult audiobook to follow
Revisado: 06-14-09
There are three different points-of-view throughout the book, and McCarthy switches perspective frequently throughout the narrative, which can make it difficult to follow in audio version. I kept getting confused as to 'who did what,' which probably is much easier to keep up with in a paper-based version.
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