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Point to Point Navigation
- A Memoir
- Narrado por: Gore Vidal
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In the Navy during World War II, Vidal was forced to use point to point navigation whenever compasses failed. It is an apt analogy for his life, which has been filled with glorious triumphs as well as spectacular controversies. Never afraid to enter uncharted waters, Vidal has had relationships with innumerable luminaries, including President Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, and others.
Thoroughly engaging and, of course, provocative, Point to Point Navigation is the fascinating story of an American icon. Vidal himself narrates this memoir, intimately sharing the stories of his own life.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"In short, the memoir is a perfect encapsulation of Vidal's outsized personality." (Booklist)
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Finally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
- De John Norton en 06-12-19
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
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This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Intelligent, Amusing
- De David M Chesser en 06-02-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Julian
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner, George Newbern, David de Vries, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign.
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Brilliant narration!
- De Abhishek Deepak en 10-23-19
De: Gore Vidal
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Inventing a Nation
- Washington, Adams, Jefferson
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht, Gore Vidal
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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Volumes have been written about George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Inventing a Nation does. Vidal's consummate skill takes you into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.
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Reader Beware: Mixed with a political agenda
- De Robert en 09-09-04
De: Gore Vidal
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 60 h y 15 m
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Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov, and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992).
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An entertaining anthology & a superb narration
- De S&DH en 11-13-21
De: Gore Vidal
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Myra Breckinridge
- A Novel (Myra and Myron, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal, Camille Paglia - introduction
- Narrado por: Michelle Hendley, Camille Paglia
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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"I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western culture; and a sacred mission to bring heteronormative civilization to its knees. Fifty years after its first publication unleashed gales of laughter, delight, and ferocious dissent, Myra's moment to instruct and delight has once again arrived.
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Well performed
- De Kenny D en 06-08-19
De: Gore Vidal, y otros
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Burr
- A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated - and misunderstood - figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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Finally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
- De John Norton en 06-12-19
De: Gore Vidal
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
- De: Gore Vidal, Jay Parini - editor
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 19 h y 56 m
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Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.
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Messiah
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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Messiah traces the collapse of Christianity and the rise of the next great religion of Western civilization: Cavism. Founded by undertaker John Cave, Cavism holds that it is a holy thing to die. Packaged by a marketing genius, the new religion conquers the world more quickly than any prior memeplex, but pockets of resistance remain. Eugene Luther, formerly an apostle of Cavism, now a hunted apostate, writes his memoirs as a last gesture of freedom while the noose of a totalitarian religious state tightens around him.
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A Really Well Read Story And Very Professional Audiobook
- De Frank Donnelly en 05-02-21
De: Gore Vidal
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The City and the Pillar
- A Novel
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship.
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Do not listen to the introduction!!!!!
- De Billmatto en 12-05-19
De: Gore Vidal
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
- American Imperialism, Book 1
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of “evil-doers?”
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Gore Vidal Shits on Everything
- De Jeremy Hager en 01-17-20
De: Gore Vidal
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Empire of Self
- A Life of Gore Vidal
- De: Jay Parini
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The product of 30 years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self probes behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual who's who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Princess Margaret, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood.
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Well done!
- De Christopher en 03-22-16
De: Jay Parini
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The Last Empire
- Essays 1992-2000
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
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The Last Empire is a collection of provocative, witty, and eloquent essays by Gore Vidal about all things USA. In more than two dozen essays, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects, offering incisive observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, and the Clintons—interwoven with a rich tapestry of personal anecdote, critical insight, and historical detail.
De: Gore Vidal
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- Glen W. Stinnett
- 04-12-15
A very articulate autobiography/memoir
A very articulate autobiography/memoir. I enjoyed many Gore books. Review complete.
Thanks to Audible Shop.
Glen W Stinnett
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- Daniel Rosen
- 10-25-14
Fascinating anecdotes from a master storyteller
Rich tales from a rich life are recalled by Vidal himself in this excellent collection.
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- Joyce Eriksen
- 03-31-15
Tongue in cheek
Mr Vidal is witty and wry. Love both so I'm a fan. He wouldn't care at all. One of a kind.
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- Joyce
- 08-13-13
Brilliant
Gore Vidal at the end of his long and over-the-top life, here exhibits his wisdom, his wit and his frustrations, as he settles old scores and drops many a name.
There is much to be learned from this too soon ended short account of a remarkable life.
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- Silverthorne
- 09-12-19
Depression made manifest
This is a very sad book by a wonderful writer who knows all about disillusionment, loss, betrayal, and bitterness. It made me very sad myself to hear it in his eighty-year old voice, sometimes hard to understand. Not a book for most readers, I would suspect, even those who admired and respected Vidal.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-21-23
Excellent and insightful memoir
Excellent and insightful memoir by one of the greatest writers of 20th century.
Highly recommended
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- margot
- 08-01-13
Digressive, like an old man's reveries
This memoir is not nearly as good as Vidal's 'Palimpsest,' which was a masterpiece of autobiography as well as witty social history. There were bits of exaggeration and maybe outright lies in the earlier book, but the ego is allowed poetic license.
In this volume the memories are running thin and they threaten to get maudlin. The lingering illness and death of Vidal's life-partner Howard Auster is a poignant tale, told with excellent reserve and no soppiness, but it does leave a big black cloud over the whole book.
On the other hand, we've got Gore Vidal himself reading the thing in his Mandarin drawl, and that blots out a multitude of sins. Gore revisits some of the favorites from the earlier memoir--Jack and Jackie, Tennessee Williams, his parents, Amelia Earhart--and brings them to life like Dickens giving a final-tour reading.
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- Jay Quintana
- 12-15-19
A Brisk Summing Up of One's Life
Vidal records his interactions with people and his memories of his younger days with wit, charm, and eloquence. He lived a full and eventful life. He seemingly knew everybody. The tone is surprisingly light, considering he is nearing the end. And for a man who once said, "it's not enough for me to succeed, others must fail," there is an absence of mean-spiritedness and the need to get even.
This is a quick, easy listen. Still, it is a little disappointing. For me, I know Vidal best from his contretemps with William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. None of that is covered here. And it ends not with his thoughts on life's meaning, but his views on the Kennedy assassination.
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- Catherine
- 06-02-08
Point to Point Navigation
Gore Vidal is a master of the memoir. His book is so entertaining and informative, I find myself going back again and again to listen. And you need not listen in order - you can just drop in at any point and it feels like you are listening to Gore recount memories directly to you over tea. Fascinating! Highly recommended.
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- Matt
- 03-19-15
Vidal is brilliant
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
And weird, but also touching and heartfelt. His biting, ironic self is there - but also a really vulnerable one that I didn't know existed, and that I think you could only access listening to this book. There's a lot of names dropped, but it's not gossipy at all. It's a lot of fun to listen to. It's personal, and political, and totally believable. It's this great kind of epitaph for a 19th century man who somehow made it all the way to the 21st century. I got the sense he could have lived his life as just another miserable prep school to Harvard to Law School to Alcohol and death nobody from the class of '43, but somehow he struck out on his own to become this immortal. The thing is - Vidal isn't even a liberal or democrat or whatever. He's just the last of what was the Republican party, and perhaps the last small-r republican. Anyway. The audiobook is fun. I enjoyed it. It was worth my time.
What did you like best about this story?
Gore's narration is brilliant and funny and lyrical. It's a pity Americans don't talk like that anymore.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
His description of his partner's death. It was really moving - and I got the sense that there was a hidden sadness there that he wasn't quite revealing.
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