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Careless People
- A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
- De: Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Narrado por: Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,535
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,476
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Only a few hours in
- De Cody Konior en 03-24-25
- Careless People
- A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
- De: Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Narrado por: Sarah Wynn-Williams
More than Careless. Dangerous. Essential reading
Revisado: 03-30-25
Insight into how power turns the good into the dangerous called Facebook and Meta. It will get. Worse
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Stardust
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Joseph Kanon owns this little corner of history.
- De Richard Delman en 04-27-15
- Stardust
- De: Joseph Kanon
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
A Hollywood As it was
Revisado: 03-25-25
I loved the characters lay down their. Hand Prints on the street of remembered time
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The Dream Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The next parable of the sower
- De Jess en 03-18-25
- The Dream Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
A must read about our new totalitarian present. Must read and terrifying
Revisado: 03-07-25
How close we are to a technological brave be world and how we must. Resist!!!!
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Table for Two
- Fictions
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,495
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I adore Amor Towles!!
- De Deb Mitchell en 04-20-24
- Table for Two
- Fictions
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
The bell Towles for this magnificent storyteller
Revisado: 04-23-24
Character after character are unforgettable. A master storyteller
You will love these tales and imaginative characters
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Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 28 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 420
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 377
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 373
Of Human Bondage is one of the greatest novels of modern times, and it is certainly Maugham's greatest achievement. It was published in 1914, when Maugham was at the height of his creative powers. The story concerns Philip Carey, afflicted at birth with a club foot, and his passionate search for truth in a cruel world. We follow his growth to manhood, his educational progress, his first loves, and the wrenching tragedies and disappointments that life has in store for him. In some of the finest prose of the 20th century, Maugham has presented us with the timeless story of one man's search for the meaning of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatly Unsettling
- De Michael en 10-04-14
- Of Human Bondage
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
A triumph of life lived
Revisado: 12-14-23
Being captured by a story that plums the depths and heights of life. A feeling of experiencing the heart of it all. We are all flawed and blessed. Cary is a man in full. Why didn’t Phillip try writing. Hmmm
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 2
- De: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Winner of the 2003 Audie Award for Classic Fiction, this is an unparalleled presentation of Maugham's stories, complete with sound effects and music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent performance
- De Roy en 04-22-05
Maugham a great story writer
Revisado: 12-04-23
Love the reader Charles Griffeb. Read volume one and read Rain Maugham characters sweep you away a brilliant story writer
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Somebody's Fool
- A Novel
- De: Richard Russo
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nice "feel good" novel
- De Mark en 01-08-24
- Somebody's Fool
- A Novel
- De: Richard Russo
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
Moving and heartfelt
Revisado: 08-01-23
No one should miss this trilogy
The characters and story touch your heart as you live the lives of this town and it’s many memorable characters. Wonderful. Russo’s masterpiece
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Watergate
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Mallon
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 175
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated - uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs - it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandal’s greatest mysteries - who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape? - and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. In Watergate, Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great listen
- De Tad Davis en 03-29-12
- Watergate
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Mallon
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
Watergate Memory Lane
Revisado: 03-22-14
If you could sum up Watergate in three words, what would they be?
A brilliant reimagining of the Watergate Break in and all the President's men, from Nixon himself to Pat Nixon to the burglars
Who was your favorite character and why?
Richard Nixon. Joe Barrett has his voice and makes him come alive. But Mallon also makes Nixon real by the dialogue and internal monologues between and among all of the conspirators in the coverup interacting with Nixon---Mallon puts you in the room as Nixon quizzes Dean or speaks with Rose Mary Woods. You feel you are in the room and Barrett has the voices for the characters that make this seem so real,
Have you listened to any of Joe Barrett’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
One of his best and a reason for audible books. I love reading and am always in a book but I can't make the dialogue come alive like a good reader. He makes books remind you of the Homeric tradition of reading out loud. Reading and listening at the same time or alternatively is a treat
Who was the most memorable character of Watergate and why?
Outside of Nixon himself, Alice Roosevelt Longworth----Mallon uses her for historical perspective and a long view of Washington inside politics.
Any additional comments?
No Spoiler alert but Mallon's effort to solve the reason for the Watergate breakinitself (still a mystery) is terrific
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