• Teaching a Stone to Talk

  • Expeditions and Encounters
  • By: Annie Dillard
  • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
  • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)

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Teaching a Stone to Talk

By: Annie Dillard
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
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Publisher's summary

In this dazzling collection, Annie Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze, she captures the wonders of natural facts and human meanings: watching a sublime lunar eclipse, locking eyes with a wild weasel, or beholding mirages appearing over Puget Sound through summer. Annie Dillard is one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary nonfiction and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Teaching a Stone to Talk illuminates the world around us and showcases Dillard in all her enigmatic genius.

©2007 Annie Dillard (P)2016 Tantor

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Horrible Narrator

What would have made Teaching a Stone to Talk better?

A different narrator

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Randye Kaye?

Anyone. I had to stop a few minutes in because the narrator was so bad--she sounded like a computer generated narrator.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I will perhaps try reading a hard copy.

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Imaginative.

I loved the way this book required me to look beyond my concept of things and memories and what they mean.

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Interesting

Read with my seniors for school. Most didn’t get into the book, but thought the narrator did well.

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The Narration Does Matter

The Hallmark saccharine reading of this book does not match the depth or heft of the author's tone intention or capacity, IMHO. I could not listen to this. It eviscerated the beauty of the topic, landscape, and aurhor's attempt to make a palpable transfer of experience. Perhaps others will have a different experience. But, fair warning, for those who came here looking for Annie Dillard, I did not find her here.

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Wonderful all over again

I first read this book forty years ago and almost yearly since and never tire of its beauty and wonder and mystery.

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You have to read this.

Annie is always engaging. Annie is a better observer than most scientists and can clearly communicate the universe with a sly ease that only rare and unique beings have the knack.

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Poetic

A poetic, non linear, visually astute if not somewhat pensive reflection on the life experience, with some intriguing history woven in... that our lives can be so different and simultaneously the same...a reminder...

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