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Victoria Wright
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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    "Didion deserves better."

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    Joan Didion's writing is fabulous, insightful, spare. She deserves much better treatment than she gets from Diane Keaton, whom I love as an actress, but who is NOT a good reader. Her mispronunciations are legion, and it is painfully obvious that she is doing this reading cold. But frankly, I blame Audible's obvious desire to whip through these recordings rather than taking the time to produce something flawless--which both the author and the reader deserve. Would it kill them to go back and dub a few mistakes? Didion deserves better.

    Still worth a listen, though, because even though Keaton's not so hot, Didion is that good.

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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    • By Joan Didion
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    Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center.

    Victoria Wright says: "Didion deserves better."
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    Self-Reliance

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    If you could sum up Self-Reliance in three words, what would they be?

    Wonderful rendition of one of my favorite essays.


    What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

    Clear, concise, thoughtful


    What about Jim Killavey’s performance did you like?

    Did a great job.


    Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

    The whole thing


    Any additional comments?

    Intend to listen to "Civil Disobedience" next. Hope it's the same reader.

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    Why we think it’s a great listen: A masterpiece like none other, Brooks’ powerful performance of Haley’s words has been known to leave listeners in tears. It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.

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    Welcome to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics AudioLearn, part of AudioLearn Philosophy Classics. Nicomachean Ethics is a work with a long and revered history. An exact year of publication is not known. However, most scholars believe the book was written around 340 B.C.

    The book is comprised of lectures Aristotle presented at the Lyceum. It is believed that the contents of Nicomachean Ethics were either edited by or dedicated to Nichomachus, the philosopher's son.

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