Siobhan Ricci
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Thing of Beauty
- The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
- De: Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world's top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry's standard of beauty. But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother's approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gia Carangi Is My Hero
- De Siobhan Ricci en 03-01-25
- Thing of Beauty
- The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
- De: Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
Gia Carangi Is My Hero
Revisado: 03-01-25
The greatest book ever written,,,, About the greatest person to ever live….. I miss Gia Carangi so much,,,, Thank you Gia!
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In the Jingle Jangle Jungle
- Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre
- De: Joel Gion
- Narrado por: Joel Gion
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
A righteous account of the hazards and pleasures of life on and off the road, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle takes use behind the scenes of the supposed behind the scenes film that cemented the band's legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memories of 90’s SF
- De hey it's jen en 12-28-24
This book totally sucks
Revisado: 06-25-24
A totally pretentious waste of time…. Awful writing…. Truly an unbearable book…. Use credits for something worth your time
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It Was All a Dream
- Biggie and the World That Made Him
- De: Justin Tinsley
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 215
The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of the 1990s. Born Christopher Wallace and raised in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, Biggie lived an almost archetypal rap life. Biggie released his first record, Ready to Die, in 1994, when he was only 22. Less than three years later, he was killed just days before the planned release of his second record Life After Death. Journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is a fresh, insightful telling of the life beyond the legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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By Far the Best Biggie Bio I've Read
- De Jeremy en 06-05-22
- It Was All a Dream
- Biggie and the World That Made Him
- De: Justin Tinsley
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
Love = Big…. Hate = Book
Revisado: 10-26-23
Skip this book and get the Big biography unbelievable….. Meandering and pointless ramblings about social issues….. Not the biography worthy of Big’s massive legacy
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Tupac Shakur
- The Authorized Biography
- De: Staci Robinson
- Narrado por: Jamal Joseph, Staci Robinson
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 225
Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated, and prolific figures in modern history. Drawing on exclusive access to Tupac’s private notebooks, letters, and uncensored conversations with those who loved and knew him best, this estate-authorized biography paints the fullest and most intimate picture to date of the young man who became a legend for generations to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Biography we’ve been waiting for
- De carl zayas en 02-24-24
- Tupac Shakur
- The Authorized Biography
- De: Staci Robinson
- Narrado por: Jamal Joseph, Staci Robinson
Thug Life (Story)
Revisado: 10-25-23
Best book ever written about Tupac….. The greatest artist to ever walk the planet Earth…..
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Malcolm X
- A Life of Reinvention
- De: Manning Marable
- Narrado por: G. Valmont Thomas
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
Of the great figure in 20th-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age 39. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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invites further reading on Malcolm X
- De connie en 05-14-11
- Malcolm X
- A Life of Reinvention
- De: Manning Marable
- Narrado por: G. Valmont Thomas
Classic listen
Revisado: 10-15-23
Awesome book…. Rest in peace Malcolm X….. A story that needs to be heard still
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Conspiracy
- A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
- De: Ryan Holiday
- Narrado por: Ryan Holiday
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,217
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,999
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,984
In 2007, a short blogpost by Gawker Media outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker and its bankruptcy. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental - it had been masterminded by Thiel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I almost couldn’t make it through...
- De Grant Hall en 04-06-18
- Conspiracy
- A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
- De: Ryan Holiday
- Narrado por: Ryan Holiday
Good but could’ve been better
Revisado: 07-04-21
Conspiracy is a book about the Hogan vs Gawker lawsuit over a sex tape, backed by Peter Thiel a Silicon Valley investor, who was funding it because of Gawker’s desire to out him as being gay. But that’s just the surface level view of this long embittered battle between powerful people. I did enjoy this book a lot, but my one complaint was the writer overly editorialized the story, not in ways I disagreed with, but I think the story could’ve been told without all the conjecture. Great book!
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Masters of Doom
- How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- De: David Kushner
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,933
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,911
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How it was
- De Ryan en 08-27-13
- Masters of Doom
- How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- De: David Kushner
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Best book about video games
Revisado: 07-04-21
Masters of Doom is about the rise of two of the greatest minds in video game history, John Romero and John Cormack. They created Doom and Quake and many other things along the way. It’s one of the best partnerships there ever was in video games, and they revolutionized the medium through tumultuous times. I found the book to be amazing but also a bit flat towards the end as Cormack and Romero go their own way. They never matched the greatness of working together. Fun book!
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 39,200
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34,736
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34,667
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- De LEE en 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
A Silicon Valley classic
Revisado: 07-03-21
Bad Blood is the story of Elizabeth Holmes and the defunct medical company Theranos. This book is illuminating, in terms of the fraud and deception that Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos pulled off, with their faulty blood tests, and junk science testing unit called The Edison. This book does have a happy ending though, and Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos went belly up, and deservedly so. What they did was horrendous. Props to this writer for exposing the truth! Well done sir.
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Pale Horse Rider
- William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
- De: Mark Jacobson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
A former US naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one best seller in the American prison system. According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated - because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth - by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy; and much more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disingenuous story of Bill Cooper
- De LuckyGregor en 07-16-19
- Pale Horse Rider
- William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
- De: Mark Jacobson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
A touching tribute to a complicated man
Revisado: 07-02-21
Pale Horse Rider is about the rise and fall of the conspiracy theorist Bill Cooper, who was the first semi mainstream voice of that movement. I found the book to be spectacular, it is a bit longer than necessary. At times the book is disjointed, torn between relaying the ideas of Bill Cooper, on his shows and books, and telling the story of his tumultuous life. The author tells Bill Cooper’s story fairly, he isn’t a believer in everything the man said, but shows respect for him and that’s legit.
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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 267
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book about Covid-19 I’ve read so far
- De KarenT en 06-11-21
- The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
Could’ve been a classic
Revisado: 07-02-21
The Plague Year is just that, the story of covid year one. It has an unorthodox pattern of tracking the virus. The book is almost like snapshots of the outbreak. You follow people at the CDC, people in the government, frontline medical workers and more. Although I did enjoy the book, I thought that with more time maybe the writer could’ve deepened the narrative structure. Because it feels like a glimpse of covid more than the full picture. But Lawrence Wright is a great writer!
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