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Truck
- A Love Story
- De: Michael Perry
- Narrado por: Michael Perry
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman...." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry struggles to grow his own food, live peaceably with his neighbors, and sort out his love life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything I needed!!
- De ALW en 02-11-22
- Truck
- A Love Story
- De: Michael Perry
- Narrado por: Michael Perry
Great writing!
Revisado: 02-23-21
Great story, great writing, great narration. Did I say that Perry can turn everyday life into a great story. Really enjoyed this!
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Homeland Elegies
- A Novel
- De: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrado por: Ayad Akhtar
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,743
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,517
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a mishmash of political theory and porn
- De LC en 02-06-21
- Homeland Elegies
- A Novel
- De: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrado por: Ayad Akhtar
Intelligence and Humanity
Revisado: 11-05-20
I responded to Ayad’s humility, honesty and directness. Of course, his writing style and use of language is captivating. I was a little shocked about his sexual encounters. The discourse openly linked to loneliness, ambivalence and potential violence. This made it personal to me and I felt a courageous willingness from him to share his complicated inner feelings about his upbringing and American homeland. This book taught me that we all have conflicting feelings and experiences with America. No matter our gender, our ethnicity or financial class... there is betrayal and seduction in the American experience. This reveals a harsh reality of exclusion and judgement about what is a successful life. Money has become the god of America. My heart cries out that it has passed by humanity for many years. To live at all with compassion and heart is risky now...but I believe it to be the only way to bear what America has become and what is needed to reset the moral compass of our shared experience.
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- De: Trevor Noah
- Narrado por: Trevor Noah
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 216,349
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 195,723
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 194,755
In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and perfect narration
- De MarilynArms en 12-15-16
- Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- De: Trevor Noah
- Narrado por: Trevor Noah
We have no idea
Revisado: 03-14-20
The importance of this book cannot be overstated. No one sustains a sense of history. This book however will continue to share with us the truth of apartheid for centuries to come. No one can imagine the reality of that world unless they lived it. Trevor has. Thank you so much, Trevor. We are all better for beginning to understand the world that was created, sustained and completed in such ignorance by those in charge of South Africa and apartheid. May it never happen again because of your effort in telling the truth of you life.
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Unsheltered
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,286
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,799
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,800
Brilliantly executed and compulsively listenable, Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred - whether family or friends - and in the strength of the human spirit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Spring for a professional narrator, please!
- De Gail D. en 11-05-18
- Unsheltered
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
Strong Creative Story
Revisado: 05-24-19
I liked the linking of the 2 eras in this Kingsolver book which is complex, detailed and slowly revealing. My one criticism is that, at times, the detail became tedious to me. I’m not sure it was the narration style or the content. I hung in there and enjoyed the arc of the story line.
Someone who enjoys environmentalism, science and botany would dive deeply into this story because of the way the past and present collide revealing new evidence of how to live.
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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
Great characters!
Revisado: 06-20-17
What a fantastic Book. Excellent characters and great character development and the narration is phenomenal. They should get rid of the piano music at the end and beginning of each chapter. It distracts from the great narration.
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