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Terryl

Mill Valley, CA, United States | Member Since 2007

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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

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- by Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by Robertson Dean
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 51 mins)

By Charles C. Mann

Narrated By Robertson Dean

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Overall
(510)
Performance
(411)
Story
(406)

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus’s voyages brought them back together - and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult - the “Columbian Exchange” - underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows the creation a worldwide trade network....
Mavis H. Pas says: "fasinating new perspective on history"
"Great new perspective for the history buff"

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Love it. 'Read' it twice. Wonderful new slant on how the world got here.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

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- by David Brooks
- Narrated by Arthur Morey
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 9 mins)

By David Brooks

Narrated By Arthur Morey

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Overall
(719)
Performance
(341)
Story
(336)

This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica - how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature.
glamazon says: "Finally!"
"Love David on TV ...but ..."

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Interesting, but very "wonky." I kept wishing for an outline to figure out just what Mr. Brooks was up to here.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful
iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way

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- by Steve Wozniak , Gina Smith
- Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way

UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)

By Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith

Narrated By Patrick Lawlor

Overall
(2054)
Performance
(1071)
Story
(1091)

Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards, and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen?
Daniel says: "Not Another Apple History!"
"Glad I 'Read' It"

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I am glad I read it, but man! This was one of the most self-involved tales I have been exposed to in some time.

1 of 2 people found this review helpful
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

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- by Dick Cheney , Liz Cheney
- Narrated by Edward Herrmann , Dick Cheney
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

UNABRIDGED (20 hrs)

By Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney

Narrated By Edward Herrmann, Dick Cheney

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Overall
(365)
Performance
(288)
Story
(305)

In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power. In My Time is truly the last word about an incredible political era, by a man who lived it and helped define it - with courage and without compromise.
A User says: "Eye Opening, Insightful and Honest"
"Patriots of Every Stripe"

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It's a good thing we can embrace patriots of every stripe in this country. Mr. Cheney story reveals a man of considerable talent and long service to his country. That he is sure he is a patriot I have no doubt. But he is a patriot of a stripe I am sure we need fewer of not more.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful
The Devil All the Time

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- by Donald Ray Pollock
- Narrated by Mark Bramhall
The Devil All the Time

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By Donald Ray Pollock

Narrated By Mark Bramhall

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(120)
Performance
(101)
Story
(101)

Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.”
Kathy says: "WOW What a FIND!"
"Gritty. Takes you to a place you've not been."

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An exposition of depravity, just short of so strange that you can still relate. Involving to the end. Captures a bottom fisher part of the society we wish were not there.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World

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- by Jay Bahadur
- Narrated by Sunil Malhotra
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World

UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 34 mins)

By Jay Bahadur

Narrated By Sunil Malhotra

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Overall
(48)
Performance
(34)
Story
(33)

Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 B.C. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Getting there is a forty-five-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bosasso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkacyo. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy.
Andy says: "from fisherman to felons"
"A Report, Not a Story, But Landlocked"

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Not so much about piracy on the high seas as pirates hanging around on land. Lacks context or much in the way piratic action.

1 of 3 people found this review helpful
The Birth of Britain: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I

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- by Winston Churchill
- Narrated by Christian Rodska
The Birth of Britain: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I

UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 3 mins)

By Winston Churchill

Narrated By Christian Rodska

Overall
(410)
Performance
(145)
Story
(146)

The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
Terryl says: "Birth of Britain"
"Birth of Britain"

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Winston Churchill's seminal work crackles right along through centuries of British depravity and triumphs, just enough detail and on you go (although one might wish to hear a bit more of the condition of the non-noble common man). Churchill spices his research with a generous serving of opinion in a way that only one who has "been there" can do. While it was launched decades ago it remains a very contemporary history.

18 of 18 people found this review helpful