Evandro L. S. Pires
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The Grandmaster
- Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
- By: Brin-Jonathan Butler
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 37
Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament (the World Chess Championship) and watched every move. In The Grandmaster, he aims to do for Magnus Carlsen what Norman Mailer did for Muhammed Ali in The Fight, John McPhee did for Arthur Ashe in Levels of the Game, and David Foster Wallace did for Roger Federer in his famous New York Times Magazine profile. Butler captures one of the world’s greatest sportsmen at the height of his powers and attempts to decipher the secret to that greatness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Random sketches-Zero Greatness-Very Little Magnus
- By Steve T on 11-29-18
- The Grandmaster
- Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
- By: Brin-Jonathan Butler
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Few magnus, lots of Trump
Reviewed: 12-17-19
Very few magnus. Lots of author biography and libels against Trump. There are some ideas about current chess scene here and there. I have to concede that he writes well though. Overall, book brings almost nothing for a chess fan who was not under a rock the last twenty years, but may be of interest for a layperson. It is a pity, cause there exists not many chess books that would translate well to an audio book version, and we need more
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- By: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,056
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,797
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,780
The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A retelling of facts without much added info
- By A. M. on 03-07-16
- The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- By: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
Western propaganda
Reviewed: 11-20-16
Very biased. It has a clear agenda when it is about Ukraine (and syria, etc)
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