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- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 30 m
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Thousands of years before the Age of Elminster, dragons rule the skies of Faern, and elves dominate the huge forests that cover the land. Only in the mighty, magical empire of Netheril are men a force to be reckoned with. Bored and haughty in his midair castle, the Netherese mage Candlemas bets fellow wizard Sysquemalyn that a certain barbarian who has caught his eye can survive the most savage tests his friend - and deadly rival - can devise. The only rule: The tests must offer the subject some slight chance to survive.
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2nd Edition Forgotten Realms Feel
- De Joanne T Percy en 01-17-21
De: Clayton Emery
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The Red Wolf Conspiracy
- De: Robert V. S. Redick
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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The Imperial Merchant Ship Chathrand is the last of her kind. Six hundred years old, the secrets of her construction long forgotten, the massive vessel dwarfs every other sailing craft in the world. It is a palace with sails, a floating outpost of the Empire of Arqual. And it is on its most vital mission yet: to deliver a young woman whose marriage will seal the peace between Arqual and its mortal enemy, the secretive Mzithrin Empire.
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Not Bad, not great.
- De Aerindel en 10-15-09
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Children of the Plains
- Dragonlance: Barbarians, Book 1
- De: Paul B. Thompson, Tonya C. Cook
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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From the mists of Krynn's earliest history came the Barbarians. A young brother and sister escape a pack of predators and strike out on their own, their lives taking parallel courses linked to the destiny of different tribes. But dark powers watch the rise of civilization with cold calculation and deadly intent.
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loved it all the way through
- De Pete en 02-11-18
De: Paul B. Thompson, y otros
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The Golden Queen
- The Golden Queen, Book 1
- De: David Farland
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Insectoid Dronons have slain the queen Semarritte, throwing into chaos the ten thousand worlds over which she reigned. Desperate to save mankind, Lord Veriasse, Semarritte's near-immortal consort, has created a new queen: Everynne, cloned from her dead mother. Born to rule, Everynne instead is on the run, often only one planet ahead of advancing forces of the invaders, who recognize that Everynne is a powerful rallying point for threatened humanity.
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KISS ME QUICK BIRDS
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 06-16-14
De: David Farland
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Shadowmarch
- Shadowmarch, Volume I
- De: Tad Williams
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 29 h y 19 m
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For generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands that are the lair of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. But now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live - the kingdom of Southmarch.
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It's the characters that matter...
- De JC en 11-09-10
De: Tad Williams
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Amber Magic
- Haven Series, Book 1
- De: B. V. Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming.... The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old.
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Not Undying Mercenaries Thats for sure
- De John en 10-21-15
De: B. V. Larson
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The Broken Sword
- De: Poul Anderson
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven, and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bölverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who has taken his place in the world of men.
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A spirited homage to old myths
- De Ryan en 01-25-14
De: Poul Anderson
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The Book of Kells
- De: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrado por: Alan Robertson
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminated manuscripts in history, the legendary but entirely real Book of Kells.
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The Book of Irish Fantasy
- De S. Wells en 12-10-12
De: R. A. MacAvoy
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The Book of the Dun Cow
- De: Walter Wangerin Jr.
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil long imprisoned beneath the earth ... and Wyrm, sub terra, was breaking free.
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The Barnyard Battles Heinous Evil
- De HopSez en 08-03-15
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Morningstar
- De: David Gemmell
- Narrado por: David Monteath
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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A country in desperate need of heroes. Angostin invaders surge through the Highlands, laying waste to everything in their path. Darkness follows in their wake as a mad necromancer resurrects the eons-dead Vampyre Kings. Only the bandit Jarek Mace, and the magicker and bard Owen Odell, have the courage to fight the Angostins and the undead. Whispers soon spread that Mace is the legendary Morningstar, a saviour who will protect his country in its hour of need. Yet Mace seems nothing more than a thief and a liar.
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Sheer Magnificence!
- De Carol en 11-29-18
De: David Gemmell
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Beowulf
- De: Seamus Heaney
- Narrado por: Seamus Heaney
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
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New York Times best seller and Whitebread Book of the Year, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
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Why, oh, why is it abridged?
- De Tad Davis en 09-25-08
De: Seamus Heaney
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Against Method
- De: Paul Feyerabend
- Narrado por: Mike Fraser
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Paul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method, and considers the possibility that anarchism could replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge.
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A Must Read
- De Gus en 11-08-23
De: Paul Feyerabend
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- De: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history - Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story.
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Ridiculous
- De Corinna D. Girard en 01-02-21
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Beowulf
- De: Stephen Mitchell
- Narrado por: Stephen Mitchell
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
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Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation - spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry - makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.
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Great translation, weak reading
- De Tad Davis en 10-24-17
De: Stephen Mitchell
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Beowulf
- De: Robert K. Gordon, translator
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
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Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. It celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman and warrior, as he proves his superhuman strength and endurance. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, rewarding his men generously and accomplishing glorious deeds to honor his king.
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Translator Preferred
- De JerryT en 05-10-05
De: Robert K. Gordon, y otros
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Beowulf: The New Translation
- De: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrado por: John Hanks
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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The origins, history and authorship of Beowulf are shrouded in uncertainty. This heroic epic probably began, as most do, with a wandering troubadour strumming a stringed instrument, sitting before a hearth-fire, and singing the verses to a spellbound audience arrayed before him. Beowulf is a rousing adventure story, filled with intrepid heroes, monsters and fire-breathing dragons, which can be listened to for the sheer enjoyment of the tale.
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Hard to follow as audio
- De CSterle en 10-14-14
De: Gerald J. Davis
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Beowulf
- De: Seamus Heaney
- Narrado por: Seamus Heaney
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
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New York Times best seller and Whitebread Book of the Year, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
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Why, oh, why is it abridged?
- De Tad Davis en 09-25-08
De: Seamus Heaney
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Against Method
- De: Paul Feyerabend
- Narrado por: Mike Fraser
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Paul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method, and considers the possibility that anarchism could replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge.
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A Must Read
- De Gus en 11-08-23
De: Paul Feyerabend
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Beowulf: A New Translation
- De: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history - Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story.
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Ridiculous
- De Corinna D. Girard en 01-02-21
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Beowulf
- De: Stephen Mitchell
- Narrado por: Stephen Mitchell
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
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Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering recreates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation - spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry - makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.
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Great translation, weak reading
- De Tad Davis en 10-24-17
De: Stephen Mitchell
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Beowulf
- De: Robert K. Gordon, translator
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
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Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. It celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman and warrior, as he proves his superhuman strength and endurance. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, rewarding his men generously and accomplishing glorious deeds to honor his king.
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Translator Preferred
- De JerryT en 05-10-05
De: Robert K. Gordon, y otros
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Beowulf: The New Translation
- De: Gerald J. Davis
- Narrado por: John Hanks
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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The origins, history and authorship of Beowulf are shrouded in uncertainty. This heroic epic probably began, as most do, with a wandering troubadour strumming a stringed instrument, sitting before a hearth-fire, and singing the verses to a spellbound audience arrayed before him. Beowulf is a rousing adventure story, filled with intrepid heroes, monsters and fire-breathing dragons, which can be listened to for the sheer enjoyment of the tale.
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Hard to follow as audio
- De CSterle en 10-14-14
De: Gerald J. Davis
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The Mere Wife
- A Novel
- De: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings—high and gabled—and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside—in lawns and on playgrounds—wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall’s periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights.
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Really not good
- De T. Winter en 07-21-18
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Beowulf
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Svanur Thorkelsson
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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The Old English epic poem Beowulf, recorded in its original Saxon dialect for the first time. Performed by Icelandic poet, playwright, professional storyteller and performer Svanur Thorkelsson, Audible’s production gives listeners the opportunity to experience how it might have felt to hear bards recite sections of the 3000-line poem from memory in Anglo Saxon dining halls. Audible’s Beowulf recaptures the heroic style and vast scale of what can be considered ‘England’s first native audiobook’.
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Recorded in Anglo-Saxon, not Modern English
- De Christopher Mclaughlin en 10-15-20
De: Anonymous
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- De: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they must. Newly updated to reflect the global rise of authoritarianism, this clever and accessible book illustrates how leaders amass and retain power. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction.
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- De mike en 02-22-24
De: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, y otros
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Fright Night
- The Novelization
- De: John Skipp, Craig Spector
- Narrado por: Peter Atkins
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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Charley Brewster is a horror movie fan, a kid with an active imagination. So, when he begins telling people that his new next-door neighbor is a vampire, no one believes him. Not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo Evil Ed. But Charley's seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood and knows he will be the vampire's next victim.
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great story
- De Raymond Knapik en 04-28-21
De: John Skipp, y otros
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On Moral Fiction
- De: John Gardner
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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Novelist John Gardner's thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: "True art is by its nature moral." It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in life and in art. Since the book's first publication, the passion behind Gardner's assertion has both provoked and inspired fans. In examining the work of his peers, Gardner analyzes what has gone wrong, in his view, in modern art and literature, and how shortcomings in artistic criticism have contributed to the problem.
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Right in the Chops!
- De Jim T en 10-18-19
De: John Gardner
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Le Morte d'Arthur
- De: Sir Thomas Malory
- Narrado por: Derek Jacobi
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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Hear the immortal story of Arthur, the once and future king! The legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a superb story of adventure, love, honor, and betrayal. Originally published in 1485, Malory's epic poem, Le Morte d'Arthur, is filled with dramatic power and deep, tragic irony. Guenever, Launcelot, Mordred, the quest for the Holy Grail and the ultimate doom of Arthur's realm - it's all here.
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Derek Jacobi is Astounding
- De Edward en 05-31-03
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- De: Simon Armitage
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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The famous Middle English poem by an anonymous Northern England poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager.
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great original, translation, and reader
- De Mary en 04-30-08
De: Simon Armitage
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The Time It Never Rained
- De: Elmer Kelton
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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For decades, Charlie Flagg has eked out a living by raising cattle and sheep on his modest Texas ranch. Hardworking and old-fashioned, he distrusts federal programs that claim to help struggling farmers and ranchers. But as rainless years continue and others sell their souls for federal handouts, Charlie finds himself under increasing pressure to compromise his principles - and surrender his freedom.
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One of best audio books I've ever read
- De NEIL SCHMITT en 10-16-09
De: Elmer Kelton
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The Last Light of the Sun
- De: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father’s sins, denied his heritage and home, commits an act of vengeance and desperation that brings him face-to-face with a past he’s been trying to leave behind...In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd king, battling inner demons all the while, shores up his defenses with alliances and diplomacy - and with swords and arrows. Meanwhile his exceptional, unpredictable sons and daughters give shape to their own desires when battle comes and darkness falls in the spirit wood...
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Not your typical Viking saga :)
- De Sterling Sweeney en 07-19-22
De: Guy Gavriel Kay
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Beowulf
- De: Seamus Heaney - translator
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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Written a thousand years ago, this long poem is the very first surviving piece of English literature. Join Beowulf, a young warrior, as he achieves glory by fighting and killing three fantastic monsters. This new translation, by the Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney, offers modern listeners an accessible, intensely dramatic text. It amply demonstrates why this epic has spread its influence over more than a millennium of literature.
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Almost perfect
- De Tad Davis en 01-28-13
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Outer Dark
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.
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Throwing chert boulders at the dark center
- De Darwin8u en 04-22-13
De: Cormac McCarthy
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The End of the Story
- Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 1
- De: Clark Ashton Smith
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper, Allan Robertson, Joe Knezevich, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 3 m
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Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work.
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variety is the spice of life
- De Alaskapenny en 12-29-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Grendel
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- nick w sine
- 03-17-15
Great story
It was nice to hear Grendel's side of the story, he is not all what you think he is. I recommend this book to everyone.
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- Scott Lowe
- 07-02-18
A great novel brought to life
I loved this book when I first read it many years ago, and it has been delightful to have George Guidall bring it thrillingly to life.
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- Darryl
- 05-23-14
classic in it's own way
as you can see I've been on a bit of a Beowulf stint and always enjoyed this one from way back. Gardner is a fine writer who worked a lot with mythic/classic stories and elements and there is more depth regarding his structure and philosophical ponderings than I certainly realized at first. I like much of what he attempted here, though I have not yet sorted it all out regarding the zodiacal significance and all his philosophical elements and I plan to keep studying it.
I do think that from a "purist" angle some of the language is anachronistically modern and takes you out of the story and time period, but on the other hand he is experimenting with an existentialist monster so I have to let it go.
there is some very nice writing and imagery and I would like to see the film made of this to see what they did.
I don't mind Guidall though I do try to avoid him & I am a little prejudiced toward his readings partially due to running across him so often with Recorded Books years ago; it is hard to not pick up on verbal quirks thru saturated exposure. Though this is before he got too heavily into some irritating habits. When he gets too heavily into the whispery, drawn out, overly dramatic ending to every sentence I cringe; I can not tolerate his Frankenstein reading. Rudnicki has some similar quirks.
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- AK
- 06-27-21
Pure delight
Despite bottomless nihilism, Grendel's reflections are challenging, earnest & hysterical. Gardener's prose captures & bedazzles Grendel's observer's torment frustration speaks to human presumptuousness--esp our dogged clinging to alleged beliefs & principles. Grendel despises our reinvention of truth thru the ages via poetry, narrative & song -- in his view, little more than illusion -- in shaping fictive histories, destinies that justify our desires & meet our longing for greater purpose & meaning.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-14-18
Great narration drives this book
John Gardner delivers some incredibly high brow dialogue throughout this anti-hero epic while his characters struggle with defining themselves against one other and the perpetual forward moving life they all share. The narration sells this plot.
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- liz
- 01-13-17
Hidden messages about life
It was a good book I really like the perspective it gives and also the philosophies that are hidden in each chapter. I also like the voice of the narrator it's very fitting for Grendel. I really enjoyed this book and it has an ending one would expect but not expect the same time.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-20
Poor Grendel’s had an accident.
One of my all-time favorite novels. An underrated classic and an invaluable commentary on the human condition. A philosopher’s parody of Beowulf and nihilism.
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- Lisa Ann Robertson
- 01-01-24
Great Narrator, Mediocre Story
Grendel is a whiny man baby who lives with his mother, whom he despises. Wah wah (as he would say). He philosophizes, but not very interestingly. The narration, however, was excellent and made the audiobook worth the time spent listening.
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- Jason P
- 09-07-15
A must read for fans Beowulf.
This book made me contemplate my own morality, and what it means to be human. As the tale progressed I truly identified with the monster Grendel.
It was extremely well written, and contains many small references to the ancient tale of Beowulf beyond the obvious characters and locations. The author seems to have had a working knowledge of the actual ancient culture depicted in the original tale.
The narration was impeccable. The author gave the story a gruff tone which resonated well with the nature of the tale.
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- Steve Wart
- 02-01-20
Great fun
Best conversation with a dragon since The Hobbit, and the chat with the priests around the ring of gods was reminiscent of the charm of Terry Pratchett. Some gruesome passages, and the light hearted banter of evil is never dull, filled with memorable lines and great pacing.
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