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Marilyn Monroe
- De: Barbara Leaming
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order.
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Moving and intelligent
- De NYCLady en 05-05-24
- Marilyn Monroe
- De: Barbara Leaming
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
Moving and intelligent
Revisado: 05-05-24
It takes a bit of getting used to the narrator’s sort of “period” performance but once you do it’s really perfect, and the book is sensitively, smartly written and informative. Exquisite.
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Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
- De: Suzanne Pilaar Birch, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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In 20 captivating lectures, Professor Suzanne Pilaar Birch shares her expertise and passion for discovery as she peels back the years to expose the emergence and lives of early humans. You will learn about their environmental challenges, the methods they used to meet their basic needs, cultural development, and the fascinating advances in our own technologies that have allowed us to take their few physical remains and develop a much fuller picture.
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Terrific overview of prehistoric hominids
- De Jim Nasium en 12-25-23
Solid material, rough delivery
Revisado: 07-25-23
This is a good overview about human prehistory that incorporates the latest findings in archeogenetics that’s well organized, concise, and interesting for people obsessed with this stuff - even if you’ve heard a lot of it before there are great tidbits and it’s well connected. But the lecturer’s reading, not speaking, but obviously reading every word in a very amateur, childlike way. I understand this is a professor and not a professional voiceover performer — but what’s great about most of these is they’re actual professors talking like they would to a class, in their element. This is the first one I’ve heard where they’re just reading and it sucks. Makes it hard to listen to.
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Normal People
- A Novel
- De: Sally Rooney
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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Difficult, but Worth It
- De kdiz en 04-03-20
- Normal People
- A Novel
- De: Sally Rooney
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
Intimate, devastating, brilliant
Revisado: 09-27-21
This book is absolutely gorgeous - so sad and real and familiar. It is absolutely deserving of all its many accolades, and it has received so many that I hardly need to leave my two cents to recommend it.
I’m only doing that because I’m shocked by the other user reviews. Who are these people? This is a novel, not an episode of Sesame Street. They’re complaining that the characters don’t “evolve”? First of all, they change immensely. Secondly, the story takes place over the course of the Marianne and Connell’s very young adulthood, between their final year of high school and then university. Who do you know that figures everything out in life by age 21 or 22? In reality, can people escape the pressures of their social class, the patterns of their upbringing, and overcome all of their insecurities or tie a neat bow around their complex intimate relationships, by that age?
And complaints about the timeline - do you all not understand the way this allows the world of the novel to grow outwards, to follow the flow of the characters thoughts so perfectly it always feels authentic and makes it impossible to put down, so that the reader is completely engrossed in the story, hardly ever aware that they’re reading at all?
Just because the book is about young people, I guess, doesn’t mean it is intended for them. This is not YA. Jesus.
Anyway, it is incredible.
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