Joshua de Vries
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Project Hail Mary
- Auteur(s): Andy Weir
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 16 h et 10 min
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Riveting Story!
- Écrit par Maggie Irwin le 2021-05-10
- Project Hail Mary
- Auteur(s): Andy Weir
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
Outstanding!
Évalué le: 2023-12-22
I loved this book so much! The narration is flawless, the story is incredible, and there are moments that genuinely made me tear up in the best way.
Could not recommend this one enough!
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- Lives of Mayfair Witches
- Auteur(s): Anne Rice
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
- Durée: 22 h et 3 min
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It's centuries since I've seen one single other member of my own species. Oh, there have been others. I've heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost. But not in centuries have I touched my own flesh and blood, as humans are so fond of saying. Never in all this time....
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Best out of the trilogy.
- Écrit par Kaitlyn Vetters le 2024-11-20
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- Lives of Mayfair Witches
- Auteur(s): Anne Rice
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
Unsatisfying Conclusion
Évalué le: 2023-01-07
The Witching Hour is one of Anne Rice’s best books. This one just feels like an extended epilogue filled with all manner of strange digressions. And with as much time as is spent wrapping everything up, the final lines feel incredibly unsatisfying.
Kate Reading is incredible, and if you want to be a completionist and read all three Mayfair books, her narration is excellent and elevates the material really well, but just in terms of the story, it’s clear Rice ran out of ideas and allowed the story to fizzle out.
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Gone with the Wind
- Auteur(s): Margaret Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): Linda Stephens
- Durée: 49 h et 2 min
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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Great book, okay reader
- Écrit par Rhiannon le 2018-03-07
- Gone with the Wind
- Auteur(s): Margaret Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): Linda Stephens
A Literary Masterwork
Évalué le: 2019-03-05
I should start off by saying that Mitchell's version of events following the American Civil War are VERY slanted and more characters grow more outspokenly racist as the story progresses. HOWEVER, it does offer insight into just why Southerners today can't seem to let the Civil War go. It's this version of events, regardless of the actual truth, that they cling to. So just go into this one knowing that you're seeing things through the lenses of a victimized South lorded over by corrupt Yankees and hordes of dangerous freed slaves. It's not a history book. It's a fairy tale, but one that's told with great passion.
With that said, Mitchell is one of the most accomplished writers I have ever encountered. Her characters are flawed, complex, relatable, multi-faceted, and compelling. Her prose is swift and descriptive, and her dialogue crackles with wit and emotion and humour. Scarlett and Rhett are some of my favourite literary characters ever, specifically because they are so flawed and human. They're selfish, manipulative, beset by insecurities, and are able to dig deep and find the strength they need to survive the Civil War, even if it means they have to abandon their moral center. They're not GOOD people, but they're compelling anti-heroes you can't help but root for.
I also LOVE the narrator of this audiobook, Linda Stephens. Her accents and voices are perfect, and when she encounters any songs, she sings them with a perfect clear voice that was so surprising, considering most other narrators either recite song lyrics or try to sing and end up butchering them.
This is a fantastic yarn that, despite its length, is impossible to stop listening to. The brutal racism is very difficult to get through, though, and there are parts (liberal uses of the N word) that children should definitely not hear, so I'd suggest sticking with headphones. But I think this is an important text, if only so one can get inside the heads of the South after the Civil War, so you can understand just why they mistrust the North so much.
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