SHAWN

What is missing and is useful

Revisado: 12-01-23

Chapter 1
Part 1: Youth. Childhood - Magic and Faery - Nature - Love - Jealousy - Lust (22:59)
1. As You Like It - Act II, Scene 7 @0:02
2. Sonnet 2, Sonnet 12 @1:48
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act II, Scene 1 @4:00
4. The Tempest - Act III, Scene 2 @6:18
5. Romeo And Juliet - Act I, Scene 4 @7:11
6. The Merchant Of Venice - Act V, Scene 1 @9:30
7. Much Ado About Nothing - Act II, Scene 3 @11:10
8. Sonnet 18, Sonnet 116, Sonnet 130 @13:03
9. Romeo And Juliet - Act I, Scene 5. Act II, Scene 1. Act II, Scene 2 @16:05
10. Winter's Tale - Act II, Scene 2 @19:02
11. Sonnet 129 @20:53
12. Measure For Measure - Act II, Scene 2 @21:55
Part 2: Manhood. War - Civil Strife - Kingship - Government and Society - Passion and Character (22:11)
13. Henry The Fifth – Prologue @24:00
14. Henry The Fourth (Part 1) - Act I, Scene 3 @25:53
15. Henry The Sixth (Part 3) - Act II, Scene 5 @28:09
16. Richard The Second - Act III, Scene 3. Act IV, Scene 1 @30:40
17. Julius Caesar - Act I, Scene 2 @40:41
18. Hamlet - Act II, Scene 2 @43:00
Chapter 2
Part 3: Age. Death - Sickness - Man Against Himself - Old Time - Time (Side C: 14:46. Side D: 15:40)
1. Sonnet 138. Sonnet 30. Sonnet 73 @0:00
2. Henry The Fourth (Part 2) - Act III, Scene 1 @2:56
3. Macbeth - Act II, Scene 1 @5:27
4. Richard The Third - Act 1, Scene 4 @8:10
5. Measure For Measure - Act III, Scene 1 12:05
6. Julius Caesar - Act II, Scene 2 @13:08
7. Hamlet - Act II, Scene 2 @13:49
8. Hamlet - Act III, Scene 2 @15:23
9. Hamlet - Act V, Scene 2 @17:52
10. Sonnet 29 @18:42
11. Cymbeline @19:41
12. Romeo And Juliet - Act V, Scene 3 @21:16
13. King Lear - Act V, Scene 3 @24:27
14. The Tempest - Act IV, Scene 1. Act V, Scene 1. Epilogue @27:19

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Listening to this has become a holiday tradition

Revisado: 12-14-15

What made the experience of listening to A Christmas Carol: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry the most enjoyable?

The first enjoyment must come from the soul of Dickens to have written this masterpiece.
The second enjoyment--and not following far behind the first--is Tim Curry's phenomenal performance: his rich voice is such a pleasure to listen to. And to that end, the recording of Curry's voice is so close and good that this audio book is a true delight.

What did you like best about this story?

The moment Scrooge's nephew laughs. Curry's laugh is just as affecting as the nephew's is described to be. We all chuckle to hear it-- "as it [is] impossible to keep the affection off."

What about Tim Curry’s performance did you like?

Tim Curry's performance makes this one of my favorite audiobooks.

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Unexpected delight

Revisado: 12-07-12

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I was in the mood for something sexy, perhaps a bit titillating, too. After I listened to the sample I was enticed to hear more. What a nice surprise!

The readers are terrific. The personalities of the diarists come off as authentic and honest. And even while I suppose that some of this is exaggerated, I found the diarists to express familiar desires, passions, insecurities and vulnerabilities. Many of the writers describe how their relationships work or don't in relation to sex. The context for their sexual lives is rich. I feel like I can understand some of the kinds of relationships and what drives them very well, even though I've never experienced these types of relationships myself

Also, what's great about this collection is the range of people writing across the spectrum of age and sexual preference. Ultimately, this audio book reminded me of what a gift it is to be alive and to be hungry!

Enjoy!

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Keaton is disappointing

Revisado: 09-20-12

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Hearing Diane Keaton pronounce tule fog as "tool" fog and Merced as "mers-ed" (emphasis on the first syllable rather than on the last) was a little jarring. Aren't there editors involved to help the readers pronounce the words correctly? Keaton is a good reader for Didion's slightly smug tone here, but those errors were disappointing.

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Excellent

Revisado: 03-09-11

I've watched this play, read this play, and now I have listened to this play in my car on my way to and from work. With tears of laughter obstructing my vision I was a road hazard! DUIOTS!

More dramatized Tom Stoppard, Audible!

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Fantastic Fun

Revisado: 02-09-11

Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this. I started reading the book and wanted the audible version for my commute. What a surprise to hear the superb voice of Ron McLarty! I sort of recognized his name when I selected this title, but it wasn't until I listened that I recognized the voice from one of my all-time-favorite recorded books, Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. McLarty's reading made this Pynchon audiobook a great companion on the road.
Inherent Vice is great fun. A wonderfully large cast of characters, a heartfelt nostalgia for good hippie karma, rich cultural allusions and historical Los Angeles combine to make this book one of my favorites. I have read most of Pynchon's stuff, and I don't care much about where this fits into his oeuvre--as better than or as good as, or not. What matters to me is that what I have always liked about Pynchon's work, the language, the pop-culture playfulness, the paranoia, the deep conspiracy of control, is utilized in Inherent Vice to spin the detective genre in complex and delightful ways.
What a blast!

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Cheap production quality

Revisado: 01-14-11

Why would the producers of this "audiobook" overlay loud music at the end so that you can barely make out what Wallace said but then lower the volume of the music when they read off the production credits? Maddening!!

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Score!

Revisado: 06-08-10

The moment I heard Waters talking about this book (last year on KQED's Forum) I hoped it would be released on Audible. How cool to get to hear the book read by the author! Lucky day! I'm going to enjoy this one!

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A great American Novel

Revisado: 02-15-09

(I have read this book and have read the Watson Trilogy multiple times, but I have just now found this exciting audio program.)

This is a great book!

The Watson Trilogy is superb and this "retelling" is excellent.

There is so much here: the ecological history of a rich frontier wilderness; a disturbing depiction, which is palpable, of the psychological and physical brutality of turn-of-the-century racism in the deep south; and the strangely affecting tragedy of an ambitious and determined man who murdered too often and sometimes too easily trying to mark his way through the wild lands into the modern era.

There's real beauty here, too. It is cast with humor and poetry, and it is a tale told through manifold voices recalling Watson in the Ten Thousand Islands, then via his son investigating the history to find peace of mind, and finally, the intense first-person narration of Watson himself.

This is Matthiessen's masterwork. And that an artist of his caliber has rewritten an already superb trilogy (taking nine years to do so!), bringing the story back into the tight focus he intended in the first place, and for it to be this exceptional novel, places it securely on the shelf of great American Fiction--alongside Twain, Faulkner and Morrison (in my canon!). <i>Shadow Country</i> is a triumphant accomplishment! Bravo, Mr. Matthiessen!

The audio narrator of this novel seems quite capable and I look forward to revisiting this complex, enriching, and entertaining novel audibly!

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A fantastic glimpse of Matthiessen

Revisado: 05-31-07

Now that they have upgraded the sound quality of this I can highly recommend it.
It is an interview with only Matthiessen speaking. There are wonderful moments of revelation both of his life as an author and as a Zen student/teacher. Great insight!
This is a good companion for those reading <i>The Snow Leopard</i>.

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