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- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
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1984
- New Classic Edition
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.
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Come one, Come all into 1984!
- De Kit McIlvaine (GirlPluggedN) en 02-18-08
De: George Orwell
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The Schooldays of Jesus
- De: J. M. Coetzee
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog, Bolivar, to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon, and he should be at school. And so, with the guidance of the three sisters who own the farm where Simon and Ines work, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.
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SEXUAL PERVERSION PRESENTED AS BRILLIANT
- De Amazon Customer en 09-29-18
De: J. M. Coetzee
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And There Was Light
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- De: Jacques Lusseyran
- Narrado por: Andre Gregory
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters.
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One of the three most important books in my life
- De William R. Stevenson en 12-12-15
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The Heart of the Matter
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Michael Kitchen
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Scobie, a police officer in a West African colony, is a good and honest man. But when he falls in love, he is forced into a betrayal of everything that he has ever believed in, and his struggle to maintain the happiness of two women destroys him.
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Starts Very Slowly then Boom!
- De Michael en 05-21-17
De: Graham Greene
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Red Plenty
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, and as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant.
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Simple review
- De Jay J Peters en 06-24-18
De: Francis Spufford
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The Quiet American
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Joseph Porter
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
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Terrible narrator nearly derails Greene novel.
- De Richard en 07-12-12
De: Graham Greene
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The Memory of Earth
- Homecoming, Volume 1
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet, to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats...to protect them, most of all, from themselves.
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I keep hoping, but, alas, ...
- De Old Hippy en 02-22-10
De: Orson Scott Card
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Herzog
- De: Saul Bellow
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.
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Grows Within You
- De Chris Reich en 08-06-11
De: Saul Bellow
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A Place of Greater Safety
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
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It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter.
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Disaster
- De Frank Dudley Berry Jr. en 08-01-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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How Do You Live
- De: Genzaburo Yoshino, Bruno Navasky, Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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How Do You Live? is narrated in two voices. The first belongs to Copper, 15, who after the death of his father must confront inevitable and enormous change, including his own betrayal of his best friend.
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pure joy
- De greta shlafmitz en 01-09-22
De: Genzaburo Yoshino, y otros
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
- Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space.
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The Complete Earthsea Series & The Left Hand of Darkness
- 3 BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: full cast, Toby Jones, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, y otros
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Ursula K. Le Guin was one of the most revered and influential writers of the 20th century. Her Earthsea books have sold millions of copies and been translated into numerous languages, while her trailblazing novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a landmark in feminist science fiction and ranks among the greatest SF novels of all time. This BBC collection brings together the magical radio retellings of both these seminal classics.
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Too much fluff and interruptions.
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The Found and the Lost
- The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays
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Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works.
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You gotta be kidding me.
- De Spam en 07-02-19
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The Lathe of Heaven
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes.
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Amazing!
- De Adrienne R. en 11-23-18
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin, Charlie Jane Anders - Afterword
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters.
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The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many listeners see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power - all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
- Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space.
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Ursula K. Le Guin was one of the most revered and influential writers of the 20th century. Her Earthsea books have sold millions of copies and been translated into numerous languages, while her trailblazing novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a landmark in feminist science fiction and ranks among the greatest SF novels of all time. This BBC collection brings together the magical radio retellings of both these seminal classics.
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Too much fluff and interruptions.
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The Found and the Lost
- The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays
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Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works.
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You gotta be kidding me.
- De Spam en 07-02-19
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The Lathe of Heaven
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes.
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Amazing!
- De Adrienne R. en 11-23-18
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The Left Hand of Darkness
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin, Charlie Jane Anders - Afterword
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters.
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- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
- A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Ursula K. Le Guin
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In this landmark modern-day rendition of the ancient Taoist classic, Ursula K. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.
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I wanted to love this
- De Cody Joseph Painter en 09-16-20
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The Unreal and the Real
- Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Tandy Cronyn
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The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
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Shame on you, Audible
- De Audrey McCombs en 07-03-20
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Always Coming Home
- A Novel
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Yareli Arizmendi, Isabella Star LeBlanc
- Duración: 23 h y 10 m
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Midway through her career, Ursula K. Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley.
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Anyone who would give this a bad score is boring
- De Josh en 09-18-23
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The Eye of the Heron
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups - the farmers of Shantih and the city dwellers - live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the city, the city bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to form a new settlement further away, the bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion".
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Great story!
- De trailtrekkie en 02-24-20
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Dogeaters
- De: Jessica Hagedorn
- Narrado por: Ramon De Ocampo, Mia Katigbak, Rona Figueroa, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.
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The Stars My Destination
- De: Alfred Bester
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
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STILL AMAZINGLY GOOD AFTER 62 YEARS
- De charles watkins en 02-19-18
De: Alfred Bester
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
- Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.
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Not my favorite Le Guin collection, but...
- De Cameron en 05-11-19
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Winter in the Blood
- De: James Welch, Joy Harjo - foreword, Louise Erdrich - introduction
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis, Tanis Parenteau
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
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The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana's vast emptiness. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.
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- De Reader_CEM en 06-15-21
De: James Welch, y otros
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Blood Music
- De: Greg Bear
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream.
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THOUGHT UNIVERSE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 08-01-15
De: Greg Bear
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The Birthday of the World
- And Other Stories
- De: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled fans with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.
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Only worth it for Paradises Lost
- De DEC en 10-27-21
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Sundiver
- The Uplift Saga, Book 1
- De: David Brin
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?
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good, but flawed
- De J Michael en 04-16-08
De: David Brin
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Blindsight
- De: Peter Watts
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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Set in 2082, Peter Watts' Blindsight is fast-moving, hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to unfold. After the Firefall, all eyes are locked heavenward as a team of specialists aboard the self-piloted spaceship Theseus hurtles outbound to intercept an unknown intelligence.
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Gothic Horror Hard Science Fiction
- De Doug D. Eigsti en 06-24-15
De: Peter Watts
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Dispossessed
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- Scott S
- 09-13-16
OK story but odd storytelling at times
The draw is the description of the framework of the anarchist society, but this is sometimes thoughtful and sometimes incomplete. Storytelling is a long chain of sometimes laborious conversation with occasional brilliant descriptive writing. Frequently jolts the reader out of immersion with a not chronological flow, jumping around for no obvious reason. There is almost a philosophical science interest but in the end it is never really fleshed out. Worth reading due to award status, but not a sci fi classic.
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- Marissa
- 12-04-14
A beautiful work
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This novel was a sublime listen. The author fully imagines a futuristic anarchistic society and the man who lives it, loves it and sees it flaws. She explores the true cost and value of individual freedom. Much of the novel is the beautiful observations of the anarchistic society and some sometimes flat observations of a capitalist class-based society.
But much of the book is simply Shevek, the protagonist, sorting out his own existence. Miss Le Guin’s musings on marriage, friendship, love, parenting, professional work, sacrifice are poetic, honest, and universal.
All of this is of course in a sci-fi wrapper, but the story is never about the genre, but rather lets that limitless arena underscore her exploration of the Human Life.
The narrator is definitely up to the task, and what seems like a detached and naive tone at the beginning, builds into an intense empathic performance by the end. I could not recommend this novel more!
I’d also like to comment in response to a couple of other reviews. I have read Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand’s other works and loved them all. What I see that Miss Rand has in common with Miss Le Guin is the belief that individual freedom lies at the heart of all good, and thus, power over others, lies at the heart of all evil. While they see Freedom very differently, they both touched me deeply on that wavelength. But just to clarify, The Dispossessed is a true work of art concerning much more than a political statement, and even offering critique of its own politics. Atlas Shrugged, on the other hand, is a fully argued case for its author’s philosophy.
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- Alex Nelson
- 12-14-16
Fascinating and deeply beautiful and emotive
I bought and listened to this book with no expectations and will now count it among my favorites. This author has made an extremely admirable attempt to envision what a large scale stateless society might look like and the traps and faults that such a seeming utopia might still fall pray too. The author also creates a beautiful critique of not only capitalism but also the tyranny of government. All of this is done through a touching and stimulating narrative that results in a well paced page turner you won't want to put down despite lacking much in the way of suspense. It is as visionary a piece of science fiction as a Brave New World or 1984.
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- Cweth
- 01-31-16
may be my new favourite!
the narrator was a perfect match to the text. I listened to every portion of it multiple times, because I enjoyed it and didn't want the bon to end too soon. she's a newly discovered author to me, do I'm excited
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- Reckoning
- 11-01-18
Magnificent, universal; exquisitely beautiful.
This book is so wonderfully complex, the characters so finely drawn that I’ve never tired of reading it again and again. Listening to it for the first time was as engrossing as reading the printed text. It is performed brilliantly, and lovingly; voiced as I’ve always heard it in my heart. I’ve read countless books in my lifetime, and this novel is, to me, unparalleled. It is among my favorite of all time, along with Le Gunn’s The Left Hand of Darkness (and as lovingly rendered in voice.). What can I say about this stunning work that hasn’t been said much better by others? Read it. Now.
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- Nicole
- 10-28-16
Philosophical
What made the experience of listening to The Dispossessed the most enjoyable?
The 1st chapter may be hard to get through, but if you enjoy idea books this one is thoroughly enjoyable. The demonetization of capitalism reminds me of Brave New World, but the Marxist society is interesting in it's complexities. It is well written using a non-linear time scheme
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- SiriusChico
- 04-27-19
Intellectual sci-fi
I jumped into The Dispossessed without any previous knowledge. I download audiobook based on Goodreads recommendation and just dived in. And it was a ride.
The book can be characterised more like an intellectual science-fiction. It uses sci-fi elements only to discuss the philosophical questions, in this case, it is a meeting of the different cultures.
I don’t think any words from me can comment on the book better than the book itself, which I highly recommend. The only reason why I don’t give full five stars is a little bit weaker narration in Audible audiobook version.
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- Zackary Oatman
- 08-06-18
a sci-fi great by one of sci-fi's greatest
This is the kind of sci-fi story I always hope to read when I start a new book. if we view the genre as a lens through which to view our own lives, a good sci-fi story should speak volumes about how humans or societies function or might function given a different set of circumstances. This is exactly what Ursula Le Guin does with the Dispossessed. Some of the topics this book brings up are not necessarily new, like the idea of a utopian society, but her approach is so unique and thought-provoking. Is even a utopian society perfect? Of course not because people and their struggles are so unique that no one structure of society can fulfill everyone. Do yourself a favor and read this story, it transcends its genre, has amazing characters, fleshed out and plausible scenarios, and will have you thinking about human nature in a different light.
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- DesertReader
- 08-20-20
Great for insomniacs
This my be a great book. I’ll never know. The reader made my high school history teacher look like a great orator. I slept through all his classes also. I expected to hear Buler’s name called at any moment.
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- Sam Ryan
- 07-30-19
Le Guin is simply one of the greatest!
Great reading of a great book. The reader does great justice to the text, and clearly imparts the depth of the story.
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