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Entertaining Historical Fiction
- De Simone en 05-01-17
De: Andrew Taylor
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The School of Mirrors
- A Novel
- De: Eva Stachniak
- Narrado por: Ell Potter
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King’s favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the King. When the time is right, each girl is smuggled into the palace of Versailles, with its legendary Hall of Mirrors.
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Fascinating and Heartbreaking
- De HistoryNerd en 08-21-22
De: Eva Stachniak
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Instruments of Darkness
- A Novel
- De: Imogen Robertson
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.
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Not The Best, But Not Too Bad...
- De MJ en 01-13-13
De: Imogen Robertson
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Black Wolves
- De: Kate Elliott
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 28 h y 40 m
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He lost his honor long ago. Captain Kellas was lauded as the king's most faithful servant until the day he failed in his duty. Dismissed from service, his elite regiment disbanded, he left the royal palace and took up another life. Now a battle brews within the palace that threatens to reveal deadly secrets and spill over into open war. The king needs a loyal soldier to protect him. Can a disgraced man ever be trusted?"
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Very engaging. Can't wait for book 2
- De Claudia Alderman en 01-15-16
De: Kate Elliott
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The Bell Messenger
- De: Robert Cornuke
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Adventurer and author Robert Cornuke delivers an archaeological thriller that crosses the globe and spans two centuries. With these hopeful words, a dying Confederate lad bequeaths his Bible to the Union soldier who just shot him: "Be God's messenger as I have been." And so begins the journey of Elijah Bell's cherished Bible as it travels the world, transforming hearts wherever it goes.
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Loved it!
- De Pamela en 12-26-10
De: Robert Cornuke
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- De: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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The Bastard
- The Kent Family Chronicles, Book 1
- De: John Jakes
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 19 h y 8 m
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Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the men who set our course for freedom. The Bastard is the first volume in the Kent Family Chronicles, a series of novels that details one family's journey in the early years of the American nation.
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An Amazing Tale
- De will en 11-06-13
De: John Jakes
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Impyrium
- De: Henry H. Neff
- Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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For over 3,000 years, the Faeregine dynasty has ruled Impyrium. But the family's magic has been fading, and with it their power over the empire. Whether it's treachery from a rival house, the demon Lirlanders, or rebel forces, many believe the Faeregines are ripe to fall. Hazel, the youngest member of the royal family, is happy to leave ruling to her sisters so that she can study her magic. But the empress has other plans for her granddaughter, dark and dangerous plans to exploit Hazel's talents and rekindle the Faeregine mystique.
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Amazing! Can't wait for the next book in the series.
- De Reddings en 03-11-17
De: Henry H. Neff
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The Winthrop Woman
- De: Anya Seton
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 27 h y 34 m
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In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends, the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded.
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Historical Fiction that Aged Very Well
- De Lulu en 11-26-14
De: Anya Seton
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March
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: Richard Easton
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.
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Great book, greatly narrated
- De Paula en 07-30-06
De: Geraldine Brooks
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The Pale Blue Eye
- De: Louis Bayard
- Narrado por: Charles Leggett
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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Could not get through it
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-15
De: Louis Bayard
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The Janissary Tree
- A Novel
- De: Jason Goodwin
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim Togalu, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch.
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Interesting premise, annoying narrator
- De Phillipa Somerville en 09-18-07
De: Jason Goodwin
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The Book of Magic
- De: Gardner Dozois - editor, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, y otros
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker, Sile Bermingham, Maxwell Caulfield, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 38 m
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Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda... and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry Potter be without Albus Dumbledore... and Severus Snape? Figures of wisdom and power, possessing arcane, often forbidden knowledge, wizards and sorcerers are shaped - or misshaped - by the potent magic they seek to wield.
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Very Good, With One Objection
- De Kindle Customer en 05-05-20
De: Gardner Dozois - editor, y otros
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Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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- De: David Mitchell
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thoroughly enjoyed
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De: David Mitchell
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Unruly
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- De: David Mitchell
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In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky bastards who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits.
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Hugely Entertaining (If You Like English History)
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De: David Mitchell
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Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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David Mitchell’s 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
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Meant for UK listeners
- De Maggie May en 11-19-19
De: David Mitchell
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Behaving Ourselves
- David Mitchell on Manners
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
- Duración: 1 h y 50 m
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Over the course of the series, David eats his lunchtime sandwiches with children in a primary school and later goes to a street market to see manners - good and bad - in action. He explores where our manners come from with Professor Steven Pinker from Harvard University and the author Henry Hitchings. What do we mean by 'civility' and 'good manners' in public places? Why are people still pinching vicars' bottoms, and what can the state do to improve standards of public behaviour? And, David asks, how is the digital age changing our sense of public space?
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Fascinating Subject Matter! Pithy! Insightful!
- De MJCLAXDEN en 05-24-21
De: David Mitchell
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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
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Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hot dogs made of cats.
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Good Book: Wrong Milieu
- De scott en 09-04-19
De: David Mitchell
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
- A Novel
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Tsukiko, 38, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei", in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is 30 years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy, which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
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Cozy Love Story and Leisure Time in Japan
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David Mitchell: Back Story
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.
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One of the Funniest, Clever Brits around
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An Artist of the Floating World
- De: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrado por: David Case
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel.
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An incongruous reader
- De Emeritus en 11-03-17
De: Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Innocent
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
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A little gem
- De Geoffrey en 08-19-04
De: Ian McEwan
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That Mitchell and Webb Sound: The Complete Series 1-5
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Show
- De: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
- Narrado por: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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Welcome to the inside-out world of Mitchell and Webb, a strange and surreal place populated by misfits, eccentrics, talking animals and a few stray Radio 4 arts programme presenters. Included here are all five series of their fantastically skewed comedy show, packed with offbeat sketches and peculiar characters. Meet seedy snooker commentators Ted and Peter; poorly matched crime-fighting duo Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit; a cop who doesn't get results but, by God, he does things by the book; and some nervous Nazis who've just noticed their caps have skulls on them.
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Classic comedy from an underrated duo
- De R. T. Watkins en 10-17-23
De: David Mitchell, y otros
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
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In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudun is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's nonfiction masterpiece.
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Strange book strange tale
- De Grant en 09-08-20
De: Aldous Huxley
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Sweet Tooth
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the operation.
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Perfect Book for your Literary Sweet Tooth
- De Susianna en 11-18-12
De: Ian McEwan
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Amazing (but complex)
David Mitchell gives readers who enjoy sweeping historical novels everything for which they could hope: an exotic setting, unique characters, adventure, betrayal, intrigue, sacrifice, romance, maritime conflict, and even a monkey named William Pitt. I loved his characters, who were all individualized and fascinating, yet quite believable.
My only criticism is that I might rather have read this book in print. With lots of characters with unfamiliar names and passing through about 50 years, it is rather complex to keep it all sorted out while listening. But the readers are quite fine.
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- Angelyn S. Furst
- 08-30-10
Disappointed
What could have been a wonderful story was ruined by the almost obsessive concern with bodily functions. On a positive note, the writer has a wonderful ability for descriptive prose.
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- D. Nash
- 08-09-10
Disappointed
I loved "Cloud Atlas" and thought it was the best book I've listened to in years. I could not wait to listen to Thousand Autumns...but perhaps this book is best read in hardcopy. I could not keep the names and characters straight. All of the names, of course, were very foreign to me - Japanese and Dutch, pronounced with an accent. I had to start over once I realized that Yakob Dessert was the title character. Duh! :-P
There were not many likable characters in this book. While I felt that Mitchell set up a very scary scenario, it fell flat after that. I was happy and relieved when the British showed up! Names I understood and could keep track of!
At the end, chunks of time passes without plot or narrative. Uh.. What happened? Nothing worthy of mentioning in 11 years? Or more?
I was disappointed, not Mitchell's best effort or the best book to hear either.
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- Griffin
- 08-11-10
Couldn't wait for it to end.
OK, so I didn't want to read the Steig books as my "big" summer read, so I went with the Mitchell book. The other reviewers do a good job of critically reviewing, so I am just going to go from the gut. This book is like an opera. Yes, it's good, worthy, lyric..., but can't say that I wasn't happy when it was over. I am not a fan of big, thick books unless there is a reason they need be so long. It's almost like someone gave Mitchell a thick, blank journal, and his task was to fill it. If you are looking for a good, long read, try "Cutting for Stone." It has characters, history and a story that keep thing interesting so you are just waiting for the end!
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- Appleweb
- 09-10-12
Wonderful story, well read.
What did you love best about The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet?
It was a grand novel in best sense with heroes, villains, star-crossed lovers, spies, betrayal and love all set in a time in Japan when old empires were dying and new ones were arising. Japan's reaction to Western influence was to isolate itself from the world, except for very limited, and highly controlled trade treaties. Jacob de Zoet finds himself in this netherworld between two cultures.
The story starts slowly but Mitchell is carefully laying the groundwork for this marvelous story. I had read and enjoyed Cloud Atlas. It amazes me that Mitchell could masterfully write such very different tales. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.
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- John
- 12-28-18
Brilliant historical novel
I’ve read 4 of his novels and am now convinced that he is the best living English writer. This book is different from the others in that it’s an historical novel, but some of the scenes and dialogue he writes are just breathtaking. And the performances are exceptional. Highly highly recommend
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- xana
- 01-16-12
Good moments
There were excellent scenes that were done well, but the book is overlong. Keeping up with the Japanese names was difficult.
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- Gerry
- 05-04-22
This was amazing
This was a difficult listen…but worth the effort. It had me at the first chapter.
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- DaMob
- 08-27-10
Spend some money
The book overall was excellent, the problem was they were too cheap to hire narrators to read the Japanese parts, sounded terrible especially the womens roles, thick English accent for a young Japanese girl.... crazy.
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- Ivy Roberts
- 08-03-12
I wish I could listen all over again!
This book was just plain fun. I love history and got lots of it here, some for real and some invented, but all fascinating. The characters and situations were so original and new to me. A real saga, and very well read by the narrators.
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