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Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 843
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 741
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 739
When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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The Keep
- The Adversary Cycle, Book 1
- De: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 766
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 670
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 671
"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find something that's both powerful and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore - who just happens to be Jewish - to shed some light on the mysterious happenings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At long last, The classic horror novel on Audible
- De Shieldslinger en 07-22-20
De: F. Paul Wilson
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What Storm, What Thunder
- De: Myriam J.A. Chancy
- Narrado por: Ella Turenne
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
The Earth had buckled, and, in that movement, all that was not in its place fell upon the Earth’s children, upon the blameless as well as the guilty, without discrimination. At the end of a long sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- De AuthorAnnaBella en 03-15-22
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Orange World and Other Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. Plus much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wild Ride
- De Georgia en 02-07-20
De: Karen Russell
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The Silent History
- De: Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman, LJ Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 72
It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Thought-Provoking Premise
- De Doug - Audible en 03-31-15
De: Eli Horowitz, y otros
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Acid West
- Essays
- De: Joshua Wheeler
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler's stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In The Year of our Lord 2018
- De Ruffkutt en 05-05-18
De: Joshua Wheeler
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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 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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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Everywhere I Look
- De: Helen Garner
- Narrado por: Helen Garner
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Spanning 15 years of work, Everywhere I Look is an audiobook full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of rereading Pride and Prejudice.
De: Helen Garner
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Hellboy: Oddest Jobs
- De: Author Various
- Narrado por: Seth Podowitz
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 48
Longtime contributor to the Hellboy mythos Christopher Golden brings together a crew of luminaries including Joe R. Lansdale and China Miéville, cross-genre sensation Barbara Hambly, celebrated mystery writer Ken Bruen, best-selling science-fiction and fantasy novelist Tad Williams, and a bevy of other skilled storytellers eager to spin a tale or two about the world's greatest paranormal detective. Some of the biggest names in horror, mystery, and fantasy come together to pay homage to Mike Mignola's Hellboy!
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5 out of 5 stars
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could go with more authors that know Source materi
- De bEnemy en 07-25-23
De: Author Various
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Manhood for Amateurs
- The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Michael Chabon
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 149
As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as a father, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible
- De Ken en 10-14-09
De: Michael Chabon
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Bad Indians
- A Tribal Memoir
- De: Deborah A. Miranda
- Narrado por: Deborah Miranda
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
This beautiful and devastating book - part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir - should be required for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad recording
- De Aspyn Maes en 09-18-21
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,615
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,375
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,382
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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The Darling
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Mary Beth Hurt
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 133
The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and compelling
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 02-05-05
De: Russell Banks
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Orfeo
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els - the "Bioterrorist Bach" - pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lost Chord
- De Mel en 02-04-14
De: Richard Powers
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Gain
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in 19th-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown.
De: Richard Powers
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn, Lori Gardner, Morgan Hallett, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DEEP AS THE FOREST
- De Rosa Belle en 11-11-19
De: Richard Powers
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The Echo Maker
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 117
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much time for a boring story
- De HannahMK en 08-06-20
De: Richard Powers
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: John Skelley
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Mrs Dumblepants en 02-09-24
De: Richard Powers
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,528
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,150
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Usually a Richard Powers Fan
- De Billy en 09-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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Orfeo
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 193
In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns - has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els - the "Bioterrorist Bach" - pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Lost Chord
- De Mel en 02-04-14
De: Richard Powers
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Gain
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 17 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in 19th-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown.
De: Richard Powers
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Prisoner's Dilemma
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn, Lori Gardner, Morgan Hallett, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DEEP AS THE FOREST
- De Rosa Belle en 11-11-19
De: Richard Powers
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The Echo Maker
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 117
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much time for a boring story
- De HannahMK en 08-06-20
De: Richard Powers
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: John Skelley
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Mrs Dumblepants en 02-09-24
De: Richard Powers
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,528
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,150
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Usually a Richard Powers Fan
- De Billy en 09-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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Plowing the Dark
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Morgan Hallett, Michael Braun
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not quite sure how to take this one...
- De Matthew en 05-14-20
De: Richard Powers
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Generosity
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Pittu
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All About Fiction
- De James en 11-30-10
De: Richard Powers
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The Time of Our Singing
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 33 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 119
On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and - against all odds and better judgment - they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. But their three children must survive America's brutal here and now.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Undigested Erudition
- De Dr. Blue Jacaranda en 11-11-20
De: Richard Powers
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Galatea 2.2
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, a cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Complex verbiage with a very self-centered focus
- De Trevor C. en 07-28-21
De: Richard Powers
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The Gold Bug Variations
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
- Duración: 32 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Expectations, Bigger Disappointments
- De tom en 03-23-19
De: Richard Powers
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The Overstory
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,693
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,469
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- De Michael Stansberry en 05-23-18
De: Richard Powers
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Operation Wandering Soul
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-16-24
Poor performance
The narrator sounds like he's reading this book for the first time, his odd cadence and stress makes the book very hard to follow - combined with Powers' sometimes overwrought prose, I found this to be practically unlistenable. 3 stars for the story as I couldn't possibly finish it.
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