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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
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In Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Garcia Marquez's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes selections from Garcia Marquez's writings, a list of his chief works in English translation, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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The title says it all
- By James McIlvaine on 10-27-20
By: Paul Strathern
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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Great intros
- By Peter on 09-05-04
By: Paul Strathern
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustine's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from St. Augustine's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place St. Augustine within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
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Author hates subject
- By MM on 06-21-10
By: Paul Strathern
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Spinoza's brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God, one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza's conclusions are deeply in accord with modern thought, from science (the holistic ethics of today's ecologists) to politics (the idea that the state exists to protect the individual).
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Very Useful for the Beginner
- By Jesse on 05-06-06
By: Paul Strathern
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- Lissa
- 10-27-09
Finally, a way to get through 100 Years!
I have never been able to read Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude and this is a short biography of the writer that quotes passages from the famous book. It gives you both a lot of information about him and about 100 Years od Solitude. I don't feel that I need to read the book anymore and I have a good impression of it. This provides just enough of a picture to grasp both the content and the style of Garcia Marquez's work.
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- DMC
- 05-28-06
Very good introduction to Marquez
The audio is clear but the narration moves a bit fast, although not too bad. Otherwise, this is a very good introduction to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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- Dhandforth
- 01-20-15
Excellent (if incomplete) summation
What did you love best about Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes?
Excellent summation of his life and his works. Particularly liked the way the books were introduced, and description of their importance to world literature.
What did you like best about this story?
Focus on details about Garcia Marquez's life, including his stint as an encyclopedia salesman.
What about Robert Whitfield’s performance did you like?
Managed to keep the drier parts of the story interesting.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
The long road to the Nobel Prize.
Any additional comments?
Story felt incomplete. There was very little about his life and works after the Nobel, although he lived for at least another 25 years.
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- Miguel Diez
- 03-12-23
Outstanding succinct portrait of Gabo and overview of his works.
A very detailed introduction to Garcia Marquez’s biography and synopsis literary works. Provides a solid background to understand his style and his life’s influence on the worlds he created. It does have what I’d consider spoilers however Garcia’s writing is so rich and colorful that the summaries narrated will not take away from living his magical realism. A must for any lover of Latin American literature.
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- Peter Mark McKenna
- 11-17-22
Interesting intro to G. Marquez
Good narration, quick paced prose, informative, puts the work of Marquez in context and summarizes his main works, for further reading. Uncritical of his politics, more focused on Latin American literary history (including several other authors)
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- Zachari
- 06-04-21
adequate
an adequate account of the life of the grandmaster of magical realism, though certain snippy lines concerning 100 Years and Autumn as well as a dependence on platitudes and a couple ambiguous quotes concerning the meaning of reality in Garcia Marquez's work make one wonder just how well the author of the biography actually understood the genre with which his subject is practically synonymous.
note: the reader, though an adept voice actor, utterly butchers the Spanish. eg "J"unta, aLenda, etc.
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