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Saguaro chronicles the life of rock legend Bobby Bird as he finds himself rolled up in barbiturates, at sea with satanic cults, finding true love, selling out, and coming back. Bird may be many things - a legend in pink cotton, a living history in tattoos, the very embodiment of rock and roll - but he isn’t a bad man. At least not all the time. He made his name as a crooner, revered as a singer with soul, a soul he quickly sold without ever considering the implications.
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Animal Cruelty Warning
- De AJLecter en 02-06-23
De: Carson Mell
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The Cake and the Rain
- A Memoir
- De: Jimmy Webb
- Narrado por: Jimmy Webb
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted 50 years, most recently with a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars, and planes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Hard to Listen to
- De Robert Alexander en 01-14-21
De: Jimmy Webb
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The Book of Drugs
- A Memoir
- De: Mike Doughty
- Narrado por: Mike Doughty
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He battled addiction, gave up fame when his old band was at the height of its popularity, and drove thousands of miles, alone, across America, with just an acoustic guitar.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Got on an Emotional Rollercoaster w. M. Doughty
- De Hilary en 03-02-12
De: Mike Doughty
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
- De: Bob Dylan
- Narrado por: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. And while ostensibly about music, they are really meditations on the human condition.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs chapter headings
- De kaon en 12-22-22
De: Bob Dylan
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Punk Rock Blitzkrieg
- My Life as a Ramone
- De: Rich Herschlag, Marky Ramone
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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Having outlived his bandmates, Marky is the only person who can share the secrets and stories of the Ramones' improbable rise from obtuse beginnings to induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But it wasn't all good times and hit songs, and Marky doesn't shy away from discussing his own struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dedicated Punk Fans Must Read
- De Leostriple en 03-26-15
De: Rich Herschlag, y otros
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Your Band Sucks
- What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
- De: Jon Fine
- Narrado por: Jon Fine
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Jon Fine spent nearly 30 years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music. And, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands "ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame". Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after 21 years to tour Europe, Asia, and America, diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life in a band-the ups, downs and truth!
- De C Christopher Taylor en 07-10-18
De: Jon Fine
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The White Boy Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people".
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5 out of 5 stars
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So beautiful
- De mp en 06-15-18
De: Paul Beatty
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Beat the Devil
- De: Mishka Shubaly
- Narrado por: Mishka Shubaly
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In Beat the Devil, addict, alcoholic and best-selling Kindle Singles author Mishka Shubaly returns to battle his ultimate demon: his obsession with rock 'n' roll. Over three decades, his affliction has spawned immeasurable chaos and destruction (and, yes, maybe some debauched good times). While his rivals have graced the covers of Spin and Rolling Stone, Shubaly's projects have always flamed out in the 11th hour. At 36, sober and stable, Shubaly is poised to finally achieve the rock 'n' roll glory he has lusted after for years... or walk away from his lifelong dream forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An honest man
- De Terry Bowman en 11-24-23
De: Mishka Shubaly
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A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- De: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 406
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 359
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales - both never-before-published in print or audio - that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, tarnished by modern politics
- De Phil en 04-28-21
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
- De: Stanley Booth
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation’s dreams of peace and freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superlative rendering of a singular story.
- De Laura Davis en 11-28-15
De: Stanley Booth
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Permanent Midnight
- A Memoir (20th Anniversary Edition)
- De: Jerry Stahl, Nic Sheff - foreword
- Narrado por: Jerry Stahl, Scott Merriman
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted fans as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Point deduction for the recording
- De Amazon Customer en 11-21-20
De: Jerry Stahl, y otros
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Eat the Document
- De: Dana Spiotta
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker - passionate, idealistic, and in love - design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her 15-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother's generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great ensemble piece!
- De Buyer009 en 08-08-17
De: Dana Spiotta
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Turn Around Bright Eyes
- A Karaoke Love Story
- De: Rob Sheffield
- Narrado por: Rob Sheffield
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Turn Around Bright Eyes picks up Sheffield’s story right after Love Is a Mix Tape. He is a young widower devastated by grief, trying to build a new life in a new town after his wife’s death. As a writer for Rolling Stone, he naturally takes solace in music. But that’s when he discovers the sublime ridiculousness of karaoke, and despite the fact that he can’t carry a tune, he begins to find his voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Witty (sometimes sad) love story/Soundtrack
- De Wally Tonra en 05-07-15
De: Rob Sheffield
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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"An excellent book by a genius”, said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now-classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of New Journalism and author of such influential works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Tom Wolfe explores the style and culture of the 1960s in this dynamic collection of essays - originally stand-alone pieces, many of which were published in Esquire magazine - written in his unique, free-flowing style.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tom Wolfe the Astute Observor
- De J. Kinkley en 08-29-23
De: Tom Wolfe
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,609
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For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for one of his son's unfinished Boy Scout badges. For seven Saturdays Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the spry 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Justin en 10-20-16
De: Monica Wood
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Daron’s Guitar Chronicles, Volume 1
- De: Cecilia Tan
- Narrado por: Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Daron Marks is a young guitar player with a dream: to make it big like the guys he grew up idolizing in New Jersey - or at least escape his dysfunctional family. He makes it as far as music school in Rhode Island and the rock clubs of Boston beckon him. But it's hard to succeed from the closet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Start of A Relatable Journey...
- De Donald en 10-05-13
De: Cecilia Tan
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Every Anxious Wave
- De: Mo Daviau
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 621
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Why would we need music if our lives were exactly as we wanted them to be? Karl Bender is a quiet guy who lives in three places: his bar, his apartment, and the cheap Mediterranean place on the corner that keeps him well fed with his daily portion of hummus and chicken shwarma. But that's all about to change. When he stumbles upon a time-traveling wormhole, Karl develops a business selling access to people who want to go back in time to hear their favorite bands.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Frustrating
- De Brit N Jonn Designs en 03-31-16
De: Mo Daviau
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The White Boy Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people".
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5 out of 5 stars
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So beautiful
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Tuff
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
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Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Larry Us!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-23
De: Paul Beatty
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The Sellout
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,521
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Appreciated it, but didn't like it
- De Eugenia en 04-14-16
De: Paul Beatty
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Skippy Dies
- De: Paul Murray
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber, Fred Berman, Clodagh Bowyer, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 36 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 1,873
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,226
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 1,243
This touching and uproarious novel by author Paul Murray made everyone’s best fiction of 2010 lists, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, Village Voice, and others. Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the mystery that links the boys of Dublin’s Seabrook College (Ruprecht Van Doren, the overweight genius obsessed with string theory; Carl, the teenager drug dealer and borderline psychotic; Philip Kilfether, the basketball-playing midget) to their parents and teachers in ways that no one could have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, touching, entertaining
- De Chicago Laura en 01-22-11
De: Paul Murray
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Christodora
- A Novel
- De: Tim Murphy
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Christa Lewis, Suzanne Elise Freeman, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,524
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,399
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,403
In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ambitious
- De Billye Kay en 11-10-19
De: Tim Murphy
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How Beautiful We Were
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As relevant as it is heart-wrenching
- De Anonymous User en 10-18-21
De: Imbolo Mbue
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The White Boy Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people".
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5 out of 5 stars
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So beautiful
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Tuff
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Larry Us!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-23
De: Paul Beatty
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The Sellout
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,532
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,521
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Appreciated it, but didn't like it
- De Eugenia en 04-14-16
De: Paul Beatty
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Skippy Dies
- De: Paul Murray
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber, Fred Berman, Clodagh Bowyer, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 36 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,226
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 1,243
This touching and uproarious novel by author Paul Murray made everyone’s best fiction of 2010 lists, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, Village Voice, and others. Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the mystery that links the boys of Dublin’s Seabrook College (Ruprecht Van Doren, the overweight genius obsessed with string theory; Carl, the teenager drug dealer and borderline psychotic; Philip Kilfether, the basketball-playing midget) to their parents and teachers in ways that no one could have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, touching, entertaining
- De Chicago Laura en 01-22-11
De: Paul Murray
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Christodora
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- De: Tim Murphy
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Christa Lewis, Suzanne Elise Freeman, y otros
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,399
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,403
In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared's lives in ways none of them can anticipate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ambitious
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How Beautiful We Were
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, y otros
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We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As relevant as it is heart-wrenching
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- Xoterik
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For audiophiliacs and xenos
It's often indescribable where and how Paul Beatty chooses to take you some place. You just have to go and look back from the other side. This is a raw and ragged journey through sound, music, identity, gifts, and acceptance.
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- Scott V. Young
- 11-16-20
Love Music? Humor? You’ll love Slumberland
I’m a big fan of Paul Beatty; his witty, bouncy narratives, teasing into strange parallel existences in which everyone possesses better than average intelligence, articulates ideas with brio, swoons for political philosophy, and easily master every task make for sweet reading, or listening. Slumberland makes music the central tool for change. I even looked up a song glowingly described in the novel a so as to experience the same wonder as the characters.
Onayemi’s narration is fantastic – I’ve heard him do three of Beatty’s books – but suffers one flaw: he mispronounces words from time to time. This is the fault of the editor/producer, and wouldn’t bother some, but it scrapes on my ears a bit.
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- Jon D.
- 01-22-20
Laugh out loud funny!
Another great piece of writing. Makes me wish there was a soundtrack so I can hear that "chicken song!"
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-01-22
Gen Xr's Delight
Beatty is your lightning quick guide to a world you may not have known but whos language and references youll delight in. The naration by Prentice is flawless. I cant imagine anyone else bringing the work to life better. Five Stars -☆☆☆☆☆
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- Stefanie
- 06-18-18
No plot
No plot. No point. A waste of my time that I completed for book club discussion.
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