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Nineteen Seventy Four
- Red Riding Quartet
- De: David Peace
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 119
Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. It’s winter, 1974, Yorkshire, Christmas bombs, Lord Lucan on the run, the Bay City Rollers, and Eddie Dunford’s got the job he wanted – crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn’t know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched into her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Vulgarity To The EXTREME
- De Vida T. Yancy en 06-30-10
- Nineteen Seventy Four
- Red Riding Quartet
- De: David Peace
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
Brilliantly refreshing and original
Revisado: 07-14-10
An excellent work from a writer with an original voice. I notice there have been a great many complaints about the "swearing and cursing", but the whole point of Peace's gritty realism is surely (as the author has said himself) that violence and death and the circumstances surrounding them should not be sanitized. They are awful things.
As to the grimness, well, this is what life was like in the North of England in 1974. I remember. And when working class people have their backs against the wall there are even more expletives than usual... plus the Brits swear *a lot* in the natural course of things.
Myself, I can't wait for the rest of the series - and Audible... where have Mr Peace's books disappeared to? A lot of us want more... not to have the Quartet shelved (to my dismay I can't even find the first two books - which I've bought - in Audible's listings any more) presumably because a few people say they are "personally offended" by all the swearing, and asking (rather cheekily) if the characters are speaking English?! Rather juvenile criticisms, to say the least.
What happened to free speech? And besides, the rest of the world deals very cheerfully with American accents from all the states in the US - indeed the accents usually enrich the work. I think in fairness that the same courtesy should be extended to the British Isles.
My question now, Audible, is where is the rest of the Red Riding Quartet? Bring it on! Please... It's first class stuff, and some of us are hooked on it.
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Starship Troopers
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17,108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14,467
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,494
Join the Army and See the Universe. That is the motto of The Third Space War, also known as The First Interstellar War, but most commonly as The Bug War. In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial best sellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe - and into battle with the Terrain Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book is awesome. Narration was MIND-NUMBING
- De Geoff en 08-13-16
- Starship Troopers
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
Wonderful, but hold your fire on the narrator
Revisado: 12-06-04
I heartily agree with most of the comments above, but I'd disagree with the negative comments about the narrator. I've heard him read several things and he adapts himself - he's no raw youngster like Johnny Rico the supposed narrator, though he sounds exactly like one on this recording. So good was his reading of the book in this character that I really thought he was around 22. It was only when I heard him read other works that I realised how carefully he'd played the part, and that he is actually considerably older.
As for the book itself: wonderful. And the other comments are, IMHO, absolutely right - ie it knocks the film into a cocked hat. A very shallow cocked hat.
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