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Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Called by the Los Angeles Times "one of the most imposing novels of the decade" it was eventually translated into more than 30 languages.
A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by one of the most important and original writers of this century.
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Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town’s daily news. He ends up discovering the town’s deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly - and poignantly - to life.
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Isolation, Loneliness, Love & Midwest Grotesque
- De Darwin8u en 06-27-13
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Being There
- De: Jerzy Kosinski
- Narrado por: Dustin Hoffman
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon.
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Darkly Funny
- De Ilana en 07-15-12
De: Jerzy Kosinski
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Father of Lies
- De: Brian Evenson
- Narrado por: Mauro Hantman
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Lay provost Eldon Fochs is a happily married father of four. Based on his disturbing dreams, he may also be a sex criminal. His therapist isn’t sure, and his church is determined to protect its reputation. Written from the perspectives of Fochs, his analyst Dr. Alexander Feshtig, and the letters exchanged between Feshtig and his superiors in the church, Father of Lies is Brian Evenson’s fable of power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience. It offers a terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect themselves from the innocents who may be their victims.
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Needs to come with a warning label, a retch bucket and a lap to cry on.
- De Darwin8u en 09-04-23
De: Brian Evenson
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year.
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Frederick Davidson's a Great Reader
- De Debali en 01-11-09
De: George Orwell
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The Rape of Nanking
- De: Iris Chang
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.
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Powerful
- De Douglas en 09-05-09
De: Iris Chang
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The Laws of the Skies
- De: Gregoire Courtois, Rhonda Mullins - translator
- Narrado por: Daniel Matmor
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies tells the harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness and accidents, and of a murderous child.
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- De Amazon Customer en 12-27-22
De: Gregoire Courtois, y otros
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Winesburg, Ohio
- De: Sherwood Anderson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town’s daily news. He ends up discovering the town’s deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly - and poignantly - to life.
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Isolation, Loneliness, Love & Midwest Grotesque
- De Darwin8u en 06-27-13
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Tampa
- De: Alissa Nutting
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession: 14-year-old boys. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.
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- De Linda en 02-19-14
De: Alissa Nutting
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Ordinary Men
- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- De: Christopher R. Browning
- Narrado por: Kevin Gallagher
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Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.
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- De Andrew lester en 06-07-20
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First Comes Summer
- A Novel
- De: Maria Hesselager, Martin Aitken - translator
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Evans
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In their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close—unnaturally close. They’ve grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother’s craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkví to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he’s done the unthinkable: He’s found someone else to love.
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- De Alexa Graves en 08-16-23
De: Maria Hesselager, y otros
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The Girl Next Door
- De: Jack Ketchum
- Narrado por: Jack Ketchum
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets; well-tended lawns; and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths.
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A Horror To The Core
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-19-16
De: Jack Ketchum
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The Other
- De: Thomas Tryon
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 10 h
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Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other's thoughts, but they couldn't be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins' father in a most unfortunate accident.
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Wish I could read it again for the 1st time
- De Darryl en 10-31-13
De: Thomas Tryon
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- De: Carl Jung
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the classic introduction to the thought of Carl Jung. Along with Freud and Adler, Jung was one of the chief founders of modern psychiatry. In this book, Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology: dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion.
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Could have almost been an automated text reader
- De Chicken Love en 04-24-15
De: Carl Jung
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Demons
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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A Masterful Critique of Atheism and Nihilism
- De Zach en 07-21-24
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Naked Lunch
- The Restored Text
- De: William S. Burroughs
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
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Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone.
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Delightful rendition
- De csk en 10-11-12
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The Day of the Locust
- De: Nathanael West
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage, and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes-actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles.
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great writing, bleak story
- De Amazon Customer en 06-08-21
De: Nathanael West
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A Death in the Family
- De: James Agee
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Decades after its original publication, James Agee’s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man’s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.
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It just has to be lived through...
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-20
De: James Agee
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Call It Sleep
- A Novel
- De: Henry Roth
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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Lauded as the most profound novel of Jewish life ever written by an American, Call It Sleep seamlessly weaves together the searing pains and subtle joys of immigrant life in New York’s Lower East Side. It is the story of David Schearl, a dangerously imaginative little boy who arrives from Eastern Europe in 1907. Shock by shock, he is exposed to the blows - and occasional pleasures - of life in the crowded tenements.
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Masterful Reading
- De Sean Bird en 05-14-20
De: Henry Roth
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The Death of the Heart
- De: Elizabeth Bowen
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the 30s, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London. There she encounters the attractive, carefree cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and her fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive. But when Eddie follows Portia to a sea-side resort, the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal.
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Beautifully Crafted Story
- De LRWord en 02-27-23
De: Elizabeth Bowen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Painted Bird
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- Colton Marshall
- 05-03-18
Powerful
Criticisms of the author aside, this book is a monumental work of literature. Its portrayal of the brutality of war and human malevolence through the naive lens of a child will humble the reader.
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- bnztek
- 03-12-21
A classic
This was just as amazing as when I read it 30 years ago in high school.
I didn’t realize the political ramifications this book endured after its genesis and the struggles the writer encountered with its topics.
Must read!
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- Daniel Thompson
- 05-01-18
no words
Similar to the nameless speechless boy, I too have no words to describe both the story and performance of this incredibly controversial yet acclaimed work of art; it shall speak for itself.
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- Walter
- 06-08-20
It couldn't keep my attention
I listened on audio & if a book is compelling I'll get sucked in but honestly 10-20 minutes would go by without my attention on the book. You may think that's a problem with me but I go through 30-40 books a year & I know when I book captivates me or not
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- tom
- 05-01-13
what a great book!
i read "the painted bird" when it first appeared as a pocket book around 1966 or 67, and was pretty much bowled over by it. curiously, despite the much later appearance of books like "bloodlands" by timothy snyder, which described, in gory detail, the unbelievable bloodshed that took place in that area, the "bloodlands" comprised of poland and the ukraine -- i.e., the "unnamed eastern countries" of the painted bird -- i never took kosinski's book as autobiography --- i imagined it more as a story about a "collective" character, a composite character, made up of the fates of several people that kosinski may have known or whose stories he had heard. it was, i thought, a fictional, or factive, story like günter grass's "tin drum" (based on WWII) or grimmelshausen's "simplicissimus", a story about a character lost in the terrors of the 30-year-war, of 1618-48. but also the book struck me as being on a par with those two books, which are classics in their own right, very well written, memorable. the character in TPB, a picaro, jewish, as in the very first picaresque novel i'd come across, lazarillo of "lazarillo de tormes", a spanish classic from around the time of christopher columbus -- so too, the little lazar, the little jew, in this book, wanders from one scene of horror into the next, as did the character lasik in "the stormy life of lasik roitschwantz" (1960) by ilya ehrenburg. another great book in the picaresque tradition and i'm sure one that kosinski --- an author much accused of plagiarism -- must have been familiar with -- even long before it appeared in english in 1960. the english translation of ehrenburg's masterwork is pretty poor, BTW, especially when compared to the wonderful german -- and vaguely yiddish-sounding -- translation of 1929. the point here is that kosinski's book is not without antecedent, but it appeared in the english-speaking world like a comet, out of nowhere, and certainly impressed with its blinding light. i was pleased to hear the book rendered in this un-hurried, slightly foreign-accented reading -- which could, for all intents and purposes --- be a deliberate "act", part of the voice-actor's performance --- and so, what of it? it increases the sense of verisimilitude, it improves the reading. which is totally wonderful! and yes, the book holds up remarkably well. another thing that was always obvious to me -- all the more so, when i read that roman polanski and kosinski had been friends or acquaintances at the lodz film school in poland --- was that polanski should long ago have made a movie of this book. it hasn't happened so far and may now be unlikely to happen at all. polanski did make a movie of dickens's "oliver twist", which didn't really go much anywhere beyond the level of an "illustrated classic" comic book. someday somebody may have to make that movie yet, and the more time passes while we wait for it to appear, the more the stature of the book will grow as one-of-the great-classics-of-the-20th-century-that-has-never-been-filmed, much as "the catcher in the rye" hasn't. kosinski's other great book, which i found on audible in a very calm and unaffected reading by dustin hoffman -- none less! to be sure --- is "being there", which also exists as a great movie, starring peter sellers. it just antedates the reagan presidency by a few years --- if it had appeared any later it would have been thought of as a parody or political satire. even so, it serves that purpose well, seen from today's vantage point. to wrap up the point i want to make here --- this is a great reading of a great book, and deserves all the stars it can get. i would point the listener to the shorter and very different reading of "being there" next. hoffman's reading, in its subdued, matter-of-fact voice, does the book justice, as does the sellers film, one of the great movies of the 1980s. reading, hearing and seeing just these two books should allay anybody's doubts about kosinski's true stature in american literature. "the painted bird" is a classic, and this is an excellent reading of it.
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- Darryl
- 07-08-12
Excellent but Tough
I love Kosinski and hope more of his work shows up. But he is not for everyone. I think this is an excellent novel, very poetic, tragic and brutal. Much like Cormac's The Road it is very disturbing at times, but I think it is an important work that should be read more and not forgotten. Stylistically it is full of poetry and symbolism, but sections can be hard to get through. I recommend it with caution.
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- Johnna Perdue
- 09-22-23
Wow, just wow
Very gripping, emotionally challenging! The narrator was exceptional. What made this for me, was the authors summary post publication!
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- TheHandiCapperGeneral
- 03-02-24
The Painted Bird
I have a new favorite book. the best thing i have ever read. exactly what i want writing to be.
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- Sherray
- 12-27-10
Captivatingly haunting....
I'm somewhat of a horror buff and this book's content description caught my eye. I was not disappointed by a long shot! The narrator's voice was perfect for the subject matter and kept me riveted to the spot to hear what happened next.This guy would be a hit around a late night camp fire. I enjoyed the pull-no-punches gory scenes and the boy's tenacity for survival. A great read.
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- Tyee
- 05-14-15
This was a great story
So detailed and the descriptions so vivid. The story was compelling. I highly recommend it, especially for writers looking for examples of work that do a great job in use of description.
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