Elizabeth
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A great novelist deserves a competent reader!
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 11-26-13
Audiobook keeps the story moving ahead
Revisado: 08-06-18
While in Lisbon, I read this book as it won the Nobel Prize. While I didn't love the story itself, I was so happy to have the audiobook because it kept my pace moving right along and I also appreciated it for the Portuguese pronunciations of names and locations. Really appreciated the narrator's work.
If you're in Lisbon, you can visit a small museum of Jose Saramago's foundation inside an architecturally renowned building on the river!
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The Sound of Things Falling
- De: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 192
In the city of Bogot, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medelln cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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'The Damaging Exercise of Remembering'
- De Mel en 08-16-13
- The Sound of Things Falling
- De: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
Narrator negatively affected the story for me
Revisado: 04-17-18
I am sure this is a great book, because I received recommendations from a couple very clever, well-read acquaintances. So while traveling through Colombia, I thought this would be a great book to provide social and historical context. But I could not enjoy the story for the narrator.
He has a nice deep voice but would be better doing meditation readings - something that can be monotone. The issue for me is that this entire book takes place in Colombia, and the narrator does not even bother to learn how to pronounce the Spanish words of all the locations. The pronunciation is terrible. And he also switches back and forth on the pronunciation of one of the main characters, which is very confusing to listen to: ELena or eLENa. At first I thought they were two different characters. Even English words like anecdote are mispronounced (ancedote).
I had to purchase the book and read along in order to understand what he was saying!
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The White Road
- Journey into an Obsession
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and best-selling international sensation The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, best-selling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous and addictive
- De Elizabeth en 09-27-17
- The White Road
- Journey into an Obsession
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
Marvelous and addictive
Revisado: 09-27-17
I am so pleased with the narrator - I immediately looked up all the other books that he has read. His voice is clear as a bell and the book itself is a delight. I would never have imagined the story of porcelain being quite so fascinating and now I find myself making my way to museums to admire their porcelain collections. I've been reading along with the physical book, which is also a treat because it's broken up into small paragraphs and divided into sections by moments of history or discovery - it's like reading a travel journal.
I will certainly be reading Edmund de Waal's other book, The Hare with Amber Eyes.
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Cape Cod
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Jim Killavey
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
In the early 1850s, Henry David Thoreau took many meditative walks along the coast. In Cape Cod he reflects on these beach-combing trips and the powerful forces of the sea.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good; could have been better
- De Doris en 01-30-11
- Cape Cod
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Jim Killavey
Painful!
Revisado: 09-27-17
This audiobook was painful to get through. The monotone voice really ruined all sense of beauty or humor within the book. Granted, this Thoreau book is pretty dry, but the pockets in there that I normally would have loved were ruined by the voice droning on in my ear. I couldn't wait for the book to end!
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