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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.
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Odd narration choice
- De Amanda Fredericks en 03-08-19
De: Bryan Burrough
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Going Infinite
- The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking listeners into the mind of Bankman-Fried.
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really expected more rigor from Michael Lewis
- De Wowhello en 10-04-23
De: Michael Lewis
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- De: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Laurence Fishburne
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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Audible Masterpiece
- De Phoenician en 09-10-20
De: Malcolm X, y otros
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Drinking
- A Love Story
- De: Caroline Knapp
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
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The Big Picture of Alcohol Dependence
- De Karen K en 07-26-16
De: Caroline Knapp
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My Story
- De: Marilyn Monroe
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Marilyn Monroe had the most famous face of the 20th century. A legendary actress, comedienne, and sex symbol, she has been one of Hollywood’s most talked-about performers ever since she first crossed the silver screen. Her fame persisted long after her tragic death—but as time has gone by, it has become almost impossible to separate the legend of the woman born as Norma Jeane from the truth. Now, at last, Marilyn’s real story can be told.
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Nice To Hear Norma Jean
- De Brooke R. Calder en 02-23-23
De: Marilyn Monroe
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Exposed
- The Ashley Madison Hack
- De: Sophie Elmhirst, Maria Luisa Tucker
- Narrado por: Sophie Nélisse
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
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Millions of people–looking to cheat on their partners–signed up for Ashley Madison in the early 2000s, seeking a private space to share their public desires. The promise of discretion was shattered in the summer of 2015, when anonymous hackers stole the company’s cache of user information and published it worldwide. The result? One of the most shocking data breaches of the internet age. Overnight, millions of unfaithful spouses had their real names, addresses and sexual preferences published online in a searchable database that anyone could browse.
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Hard to feel sorry for the cheaters
- De Kim Kormylo en 02-21-24
De: Sophie Elmhirst, y otros
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The Debutante
- De: Jon Ronson
- Narrado por: Jon Ronson
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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Interesting but not compelling
- De Gail Jester en 04-15-23
De: Jon Ronson
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
- One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes
- De: Jessica Pan
- Narrado por: Jessica Pan
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.
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Encouraging memoir: Sorry, cheer
- De Aaron Menz en 07-03-23
De: Jessica Pan
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Trace of Doubt
- De: Samantha Weinberg
- Narrado por: Samantha Weinberg
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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In the summer of 1985, a brilliant young British DNA scientist Helena Greenwood is found murdered in her front garden in a quiet suburb in California. The police believe they know the killer’s identity but there’s no evidence against him, and the only thing linking him to the crime is the fact he’d been charged with sexually assaulting Helena just a few months previously.
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Waste of her energy
- De shannon j en 01-27-24
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Under the Bridge
- De: Rebecca Godfrey
- Narrado por: Rebecca Godfrey, Erin Moon, Mary Gaitskill - introduction
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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One moonlit night, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls - and boy - accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
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Powerful Account of 8 Young Teens Killing Another
- De Mary Burnight en 08-16-19
De: Rebecca Godfrey
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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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Homage to Catalonia
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed.
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Excellent book, marred by narration
- De Kirby en 02-02-13
De: George Orwell
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Coming up for Air
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to “come up for air” from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling’s holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
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Orwell Flirts and Fishes w/ Nostalgia & Modernity.
- De Darwin8u en 07-10-12
De: George Orwell
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Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde-White
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
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With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell’s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move, and entertain.
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Great Content; Would benefit from chapter names
- De Laimis en 08-15-20
De: George Orwell
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.
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The King of Boldness, Clearness, and Audacity
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: George Orwell
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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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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Homage to Catalonia
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this now justly famous account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed.
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Excellent book, marred by narration
- De Kirby en 02-02-13
De: George Orwell
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Coming up for Air
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to “come up for air” from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling’s holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
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Orwell Flirts and Fishes w/ Nostalgia & Modernity.
- De Darwin8u en 07-10-12
De: George Orwell
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Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde-White
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
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With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell’s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move, and entertain.
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Great Content; Would benefit from chapter names
- De Laimis en 08-15-20
De: George Orwell
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.
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The King of Boldness, Clearness, and Audacity
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: George Orwell
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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George Orwell: A Sage for All Seasons
- De: Michael Shelden, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michael Shelden
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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George Orwell was more than just a writer. He was a political and social sage who valued, above all else, individual freedom. His works aren’t just entertainment - they’re cautionary tales and red flags of warning. And if we ever hope to understand threats to freedom and how to stop them, we must learn from them. In these 24 lectures, learn how the man born as Eric Blair forged himself into a writer of international importance and renown.
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A breath of fresh air to a book weary soul
- De Mike miller en 03-18-20
De: Michael Shelden, y otros
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Orwell: The Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.
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He understood the times
- De Wes en 08-19-23
De: George Orwell
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The Modern Scholar: World of George Orwell
- De: Professor Michael Shelden
- Narrado por: Michael Shelden
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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Big Brother Is Watching You: The words are inextricably associated with the classic dystopian novel 1984 and with its revered author, George Orwell. The Modern Scholar series continues its exploration of great authors with this course from esteemed professor Michael Shelden. In these lectures, Orwell, who also penned the epitome of the political satire, Animal Farm, is discussed in full, from his childhood in Henley-on-Thames to his final days.
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Great story, Great Lecturer, can overook delivery
- De wayne en 08-12-12
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Shooting an Elephant
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 22 m
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Shooting an Elephant describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The story is regarded as a metaphor for colonialism as a whole, and for Orwell's view that 'when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys'.
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Politics and the English Language: And Other Essays
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Jackson Moss
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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Biographer Michael Shelden called Orwell’s Politics and the English Language “his most important essay on style”. First published in 1946, the essay exploded the language trends of the time and served as an inflection point in the debate about communication in the 20th century. This collection of essays published 1946-48 provides a comprehensive critique of the status of politics and speech in the mid-century.
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Robotic annunciation. Slow, struggling narration
- De tom stepien en 09-17-22
De: George Orwell
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. 'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the Blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as 'one of the most moving and incisive portraits of the English character' and is as relevant now as it ever has been.
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- De Amazon Customer en 06-12-24
De: George Orwell
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Down and out in Paris and London
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Carl Mason
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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Down and out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.
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excellent book
- De toby Perry en 05-24-22
De: George Orwell
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
- De: Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarrello - editor
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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This collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well. He was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same. These are exceptional stories that came pounding out of his violent and depraved life - horrible and holy. You cannot listen to them and come away the same again.
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- De Martin W en 01-09-18
De: Charles Bukowski, y otros
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Burmese Days
- A Novel
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Colonial politics in Kyauktada, India, in the 1920s, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations but of lives. Amid this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory, a Brit with a genuine appreciation for the native people and culture, stands as a bridge between the warring factions. But he has trouble acting on his feelings, and the significance of his vote, both social and political, weighs on him.
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A Sad, Fierce and Ambitious Colonial Novel
- De Darwin8u en 11-08-12
De: George Orwell
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The Republic
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: Pat Bottino
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world's most formidable questions: What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish between right and wrong? How should human virtues be translated into a just society? Perhaps the greatest single treatise written on political philosophy, The Republic has strongly influenced Western thought concerning questions of justice, rule, obedience, and the good life.
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- De Alnia Perpoz en 10-16-09
De: Plato
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The Doors of Perception
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Rudolph Schirmer
- Duración: 2 h y 16 m
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The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley, describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
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- De Evie Cash en 10-13-16
De: Aldous Huxley
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Animal Farm
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!
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If you hate spoilers, save the intro for last.
- De Dusty en 02-18-11
De: George Orwell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays
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- BARRY
- 01-27-10
Four Stars - Maybe Five Without the Skips
I agree almost completely with the earlier review here. The pieces are all interesting, very illuminating, and, of course, exceptionally well written. The skips in the audio are mainly in the second half, and while they are irritating, the book is well worth the trouble.
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- B. Fury
- 11-20-21
Orwell was an odd duck...
Don't listen if driving...could meke you fall asleep. Not a subject matter I foumd entertaining
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- J. Woo
- 07-11-14
Great writing and reader but poor recording
What made the experience of listening to Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays the most enjoyable?
Davidson gave fine voice to Orwell's solid writing
Any additional comments?
Many points in the recording sound poorly spliced together. Parts of the text are missing.
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- Don Willman
- 01-23-21
Poof, and hear is Orwell!
An enjoyable intellectual encounter . A rare glimpse into a writer's thoughts, outside his novels.
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- John A.
- 01-19-22
A cool book
A pretty great book that I think is really great and I liked it. I recommend this book.
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- mark
- 12-18-15
Outstanding book marred by poor playback
Outstanding work, outstanding performance marred by frequent, regular, irritating skips throughout the last third of the book. Thinking this was caused by a poor download i deleted and then redownloaded. It is a glitchy file.
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- RDP
- 01-25-16
Such are the joys of listening to George Orwell
If you could sum up Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays in three words, what would they be?
An introspective view
What was one of the most memorable moments of Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays?
During Killing an Elephant. A look into a colonial's mind while colonizing and a clarification of how a serf becomes master and the inevitability of role reversal.
What does Frederick Davidson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
It almost feels as if Mr. Orwell was actually reading it for us.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Not really... it lent itself well to being put down and being picked up later without any issue.
Any additional comments?
Well worth the price of admission.
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- xiangyang zhao
- 12-31-21
“I knew I should be a writer”
And what a writer is he! It is my new year’s blessing to encounter and complete/completing “ Down and out in Paris and London” and now Such such was the joys”
Happily to say these two led me to order Orwell’s 1,400 pages essay collection as a gift to myself.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-20-21
Poor old Orwell
Davidson's narration made me laugh out loud.
This autobiography is the mine from which Orwell mined many of his characters.
Essential reading for the Orwell appreciator.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-09-23
Such, such were the joys and other essays
Overall, it was excellent. I only have one criticism. The audio skipped a lot. That’s it. Everything thing else was perfect. I would appreciate it if audible could fix the skipping. I’m going to buy a print of these essays so I can read the parts I missed.
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