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Across the Nightingale Floor
- Tales of the Otori, Book One
- De: Lian Hearn
- Narrado por: Kevin Gray, Aiko Nakasone
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,296
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,315
A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords. The first volume in the highly anticipated Tales of the Otori trilogy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful epic story
- De Jody R. Nathan en 10-04-03
- Across the Nightingale Floor
- Tales of the Otori, Book One
- De: Lian Hearn
- Narrado por: Kevin Gray, Aiko Nakasone
Bland
Revisado: 01-26-05
I too am surprised by the outstanding reviews of this book.
I listen during my commute. The good books that I've listened to have me listening right in to my carport and sometimes have me lingering in the car for half a minute before turning them off.
With this book I found myself turning off the book a few minutes before I arrived home. I was looking forward to the end of the book just so I could download something else.
It is hard to say exactly what is wrong with the book. Technically, the writing and narration is good. If I was a writer I would be proud if I had written this book.
As a listener nothing about the characters or the story made me eager to tune in the next day. It is as if all of the pieces that make up a good story are there, but something does not make them gel. Even with interesting plot twists and turns, I just did not care.
Listening to this book was like eating unseasoned food.
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The Talisman
- De: Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 28 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,747
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13,607
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,568
On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still Good
- De Bill S. en 03-24-10
- The Talisman
- De: Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
An Adventure
Revisado: 09-10-04
I will agree with two comments that others have made:
1) The book is probably a little longer than it has to be. Nevertheless the book kept my interest and I did not find myself tuning out.
2) The reader's style is very distracting at first. The way he would draw out the last word of almost every sentence nearly drove me crazy. A couple of times I almost gave up on the book for that very reason. But, I noticed that after about 180 minutes in to the book I got used to the sound of his voice and, in fact, the rhythm of his style became very pleasing.
If you like stories of adventure and you don't mind a dose of fantasy thrown in, you will enjoy this book.
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Ender's Shadow
- Ender's Game
- De: Orson Card
- Narrado por: Michael Gross
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 506
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend—the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Bean's whole story is told.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, poor production
- De Randy en 10-18-03
- Ender's Shadow
- Ender's Game
- De: Orson Card
- Narrado por: Michael Gross
Flows poorly
Revisado: 06-02-04
If you have listened to the other Ender books then you might find this one a little disappointing. The story is fine and the narration is good, but you can tell that this book is abridged.
While the style is like Card's other Ender books, this one seems rushed and does not flow like the others.
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Ender's Shadow
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Michael Gross
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 489
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
In Ender's Game, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. Now Card tells the story of Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist and his friend, the only one who was with him in the final battle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book, poor production
- De Randy en 10-18-03
- Ender's Shadow
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Michael Gross
Flows poorly
Revisado: 06-02-04
If you have listened to the other Ender books then you might find this one a little disappointing. The story is fine and the narration is good, but you can tell that this book is abridged.
While the style is like Card's other Ender books, this one seems rushed and does not flow like the others.
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Kitchen Confidential
- Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- De: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrado por: Anthony Bourdain
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 37,217
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 31,051
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30,883
Last summer, The New Yorker published chef Anthony Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Now, the author uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kitchen Confidential
- De Holly en 02-20-03
- Kitchen Confidential
- Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- De: Anthony Bourdain
- Narrado por: Anthony Bourdain
For fans of A Cook's Tour
Revisado: 03-18-04
If you enjoy watching A Cook's Tour on the Food Network, you will enjoy this book. Listening to this book is a very similar experience to watching the TV show. (Though the subject matter is different.)
If you are sitting on a stick and have problems with some foul language then you better download something else.
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The Prince
- De: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 222
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
The Prince was the first great work of modern political and historical analysis, but it suffered from a tragic flaw: Machiavelli chose as his "hero" Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, who, unknown to the author, employed murder as one of his tools of statecraft. The Prince has been studied by Hitler, Stalin, Richelieu, Bismarck, and Frederick the Great, among others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A timeless classic!
- De Plato777 en 02-10-03
- The Prince
- De: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
The Prince has no clothes.
Revisado: 08-21-03
I've been wanting to read this book for many years, but never got around to cracking it open. With all of the raves about the book that I heard from others and read on Amazon, I thought that this book must hold some incredible nuggets of truth and wisdom. So, I was delighted to find that the book is on audio.
I guess that if I were required to read this book for school, it would be much less painful to hear it on audio than to have to actually read every word. I don't think that I could stay awake through a page.
I would have rated the book with only one star, but the audio is well done -- I give the narrator credit for trying to inject some enthusiasm in to the words and make it sound interesting.
After listening to a portion of the book, I would stop and ask myself, "Now what did I learn from that?" The answer was always nothing. It is much like sitting through a corporate meeting where some high level manger gives an important sounding speech. Then when you get back to your desk and reflect on the meeting, you realize that he said a lot of stuff about nothing.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't get the hype surrounding The Prince.
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