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Misfit
- Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
- De: Gary Gulman
- Narrado por: Gary Gulman
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 339
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 339
For years, Gary Gulman had been the comedian’s comedian, acclaimed for his delight in language and his bracing honesty. But after two stints in a psych ward, he found himself back in his mother’s house in Boston—living in his childhood bedroom at age forty-six, as he struggled to regain his mental health. That’s where Misfit begins. Then it goes way back. This is no ordinary book about growing older and growing up. Gulman has an astonishing memory and takes the listener through every year of his childhood education, with detailed stories that are in turn alarming and riotously funny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I get it
- De Karen Johnson en 10-02-23
- Misfit
- Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
- De: Gary Gulman
- Narrado por: Gary Gulman
Surviving depression and low self esteem
Revisado: 06-09-24
I thought it was wonderful that Gary could look back at a difficult childhood and tell the story with so much humor. Living in the same town as Gary grew up, I enjoyed hearing about familiar place and some people I know.
So many of us have grown up with low self esteem. It was helpful to hear about how Gary coped with his mental health issues.
Overall it was a fun and informative read. I hope Gary continues on his good path.
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,378
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 13,356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,342
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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1 out of 5 stars
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So incredibly boring
- De Rhonda Morrison en 08-05-23
- Tom Lake
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep
The reader was the highlight
Revisado: 01-14-24
It was a nice story but not outstanding. What I enjoyed most was Meryl Streep as the reader.
I also liked that there wasn’t violence or erotic sexual sections. It was just a decent relaxing story for a change.
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 205
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
- Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
Paradise, really!
Revisado: 01-14-23
Some books are better listened to and others not. There were too many characters to follow while listening. I was more often than not confused with the story and it’s people.
Maybe more important than the story, is Toni Morrison’s writing. It reads like poetry with a rhythm and beautiful descriptions. No matter how confusing it was to read, the writing kept me engaged and invested.
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Behold the Dreamers
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,459
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,906
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,893
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself; his wife, Neni; and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty - and Jende is eager to please. Clark's wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overhyped
- De Rochelle en 08-27-16
- Behold the Dreamers
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
Immigrants' Dreams
Revisado: 03-04-21
America giveth and taketh away. This book was mirror held up to this country's flawed immigration system. The reader was fabulous. The characters felt very real. It was hard to see them turn from being appreciative to having a sense of entitlement. It affected their sense of right and wrong.
I enjoyed this book and have a new appreciation for new immigrants. It made remember stories my grandmother told me about her journey here in the 1920s. It seems even worse now than it used to be.
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The First Mrs. Rothschild
- A Novel
- De: Sara Aharoni, Yardenne Greenspan - translator
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 460
It is the turn of the 18th century in Frankfurt, Germany, and young Gutle and Meir Amschel Rothschild struggle to establish themselves in the cramped, restricted Judengasse. But when Meir’s talents as a novice banker catch the attention of a German prince, Meir is afforded entrée into the European world of finance and nobility, and the Rothschilds’ lives are changed forever. As proud as Gutle is of her husband’s success, she is also cautious - very much aware of the fact that her husband’s rise is tied to his patrons’ willingness to “see past” his Jewishness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Witness the Power of a Great Book
- De James en 09-16-19
- The First Mrs. Rothschild
- A Novel
- De: Sara Aharoni, Yardenne Greenspan - translator
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
Review of First Mrs. Rothschild
Revisado: 10-31-20
I thought it was very well written. It moved slowly in several spots. However, the story was very interesting. There was such a dichotomy about the value of money. The luxuries that money can buy were almost evil to her but the good that it could do through charity was a "mitzvah". Would love to know which elements were based on history and which were totally fiction.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- De: Mark Sullivan
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47,689
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42,710
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42,523
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- De Chip Atkinson en 08-07-17
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- De: Mark Sullivan
- Narrado por: Will Damron
A Scarlet Sky with Tears
Revisado: 09-19-19
Was hard to stop listening. Very engaging, yet parts were very painful to hear. Prologue made me change my views of certain characters.
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