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Playing with Myself
- De: Randy Rainbow
- Narrado por: Randy Rainbow
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,301
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,145
Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered the internet with a stylish pair of pink glasses, an inexhaustible knowledge of Broadway musicals, and the most gimlet-eyed view of American politics this side of Mark Twain finally tells all in Playing with Myself, a memoir sure to cause more than a few listeners to begin singing one of his greatest hits like “A Spoonful of Clorox” or “Cover Your Freakin’ Face”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was left wanting MORE!
- De TWE en 04-19-22
- Playing with Myself
- De: Randy Rainbow
- Narrado por: Randy Rainbow
Funny guys have sad stories.
Revisado: 05-15-22
Great book. Funny. Very personal. I thought it would be perfect for the long drive across Oregon. But at least three times I had to pull over until my eyes stopped leaking. Thank you, Randy, for this touching a deeply personal memoir. I hope we both end up in the same re-education center after the Trumpers' next coup.
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How the South Won the Civil War
- Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,563
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,363
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing book that wasted such potential.
- De Amazon Customer en 08-07-21
- How the South Won the Civil War
- Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
Same arguments since the founding
Revisado: 05-09-22
When I first saw Hamilton, I joked that we were still fighting the same battle today that Hamilton and Jefferson fought when this nation was new. Turns out it wasn't a joke. While the obvious causes have changed from the morality and legality of slavery to the morality and legality of regulating business, the underlying arguments remain unchanged. Awesomely researched and presented book.
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Shane
- De: Jack Schaefer
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,590
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,429
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,426
The Starrett family's life forever changes when a man named Shane rides out of the great glowing West and up to their farm in 1889. Young Bob Starrett is entranced by this stoic stranger who brings a new energy to his family. Shane stays on as a farmhand, but his past remains a mystery. Many folks in their small Wyoming valley are suspicious of Shane. But dangerous as Shane may seem, he is a friend to the Starretts - and when a powerful neighboring rancher tries to drive them out of their homestead, Shane becomes entangled in the deadly feud.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As Good as the Great Classic Movie
- De Russ Towne en 07-20-19
- Shane
- De: Jack Schaefer
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
So much better than the movie
Revisado: 02-13-22
It's been one of my favorite books, ever. And no whiny kid squawking "Shane, come back."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 260
Oscar Wilde’s classic story of a young man who sells his soul in exchange for eternal beauty and youth continues to thrill generations of readers. Written by a man who was every bit as flamboyant and unconventional as its hero, The Picture of Dorian Gray is as haunting today as when it first shocked the British public in 1891. Dorian Gray, young, intelligent, sophisticated, gazes on his freshly painted portrait.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fifty Shades of Wilde & Gray
- De Cynthia en 03-28-13
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- De: Oscar Wilde
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
Professional Editors Weren't Invented Yet
Revisado: 09-06-21
Holy mother of Lethe. Oscar Wilde managed to take a wonderful idea for a short story and turn it into an interminable never ending lump of literary dreck that has absolutely no business being call a classic. Freakin' chapter 11 - of a 9 hour audio book, chapter 11 takes up 1 full hour. One-ninth of this book is made up of a list of trivia, that is supposed to show us the depths of depravity into which Dorian Gray has fallen, but instead seems only to prove how dull the lives of 19th century British Aristocracy must have been. I mean, if learning about jewelry and tapestry and art is the best definition of depravity that Oscar Wilde could think of, then that time in Reading Gaol was all a sham. Oscar Wilde wrote some truly wonderful things. This is not one of them.
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The Secret Agent
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 312
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 275
Our agent, a man named Mr Verloc, minds his own business while he keeps his shop in London's Soho, alongside his wife, who attends to her aged mother and disabled brother. Their lives are turned upside down when Verloc is reluctantly employed to plant a bomb and destroy an observatory in London. What was once the perfect bomb plot inevitably turns awry and Verloc, his family and his associates are forced to face the consequences.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Life is too short to endure a bad novel
- De Aaron en 02-11-15
- The Secret Agent
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
Conrad was clearly paid by the word
Revisado: 06-12-21
If you are going to spend a long winter trapped in a cave, then this book might be for you. But if you read for enjoyment, Conrad's dense prose, pretentious syntax, and labored pacing might put you off a little.
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The Puppet Masters
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 584
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out with their discovery
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, distracting narration
- De Jon en 04-25-22
- The Puppet Masters
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
so pertinent for today
Revisado: 12-26-20
It's amazing how well Heinlein captured the human races' antisurvival treatment of a new pandemic.
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The Maltese Falcon
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Eric Meyers
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,035
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,780
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,780
Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first serialized in a magazine in 1930, is best known through the iconic Humphrey Bogart film of 1941. But it was the book that created the classic "noir" genre with its tough private detective threading his cool way between the criminals and the law. Sam Spade, the private eye solving the mystery of the Maltese statuette, was the template for Philip Marlowe and a host of others…. but they come no more shrewd and cunning with Hammett peppering the text with one-liners.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WHEN YOUR SLAPPED, YOU'LL LIKE IT.
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 08-31-16
- The Maltese Falcon
- De: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrado por: Eric Meyers
Someone got paid by the word
Revisado: 06-01-20
The movie was pretty true to the book. Even though the book is like, what 6 hours, to read. Take out all the repititon and lists of stuff, and you have about two hours of story. I don't say this very often - the movie was better than the book.
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