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Steve Jobs
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34,939
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30,534
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30,472
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Biography, Fine narrator
- By Chris on 10-27-11
- Steve Jobs
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Creating every day
Reviewed: 05-17-17
What made the experience of listening to Steve Jobs the most enjoyable?
The story has an excellent division in chapters. And each chapter presents a specific topic.
What about Dylan Baker’s performance did you like?
Dylan Baker has an agreable voice.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The meetings with biological father and mother.
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Dubliners (Naxos Edition)
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 532
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 416
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Story4 out of 5 stars 413
James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good reading, a little slow
- By Tad on 09-03-08
- Dubliners (Naxos Edition)
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
there is an audio problem
Reviewed: 03-13-16
What disappointed you about Dubliners (Naxos Edition)?
there is a audio problem and I could not continue hearing.
Has Dubliners (Naxos Edition) turned you off from other books in this genre?
there is a audio problem and I could not continue hearing.
What didn’t you like about Jim Norton’s performance?
there is an audio problem
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Dubliners (Naxos Edition)?
there is a audio problem and I could not continue hearing.
Any additional comments?
there is a audio problem and I could not continue hearing.
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
- James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
Hearing with Audible the 37 hours of Joyce's Bio
Reviewed: 03-13-16
Would you consider the audio edition of James Joyce to be better than the print version?
Yes if the reader like to walk with hearing phones.
What did you like best about this story?
The narration of the meeting between Proust and Joyce.
Have you listened to any of John Keating’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes. It make me laugh.
Any additional comments?
Excellent work.
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Marcel Proust
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Considered one of the greatest, and most influential, writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures. A strange, reclusive genius who often lay in bed for days at a time obsessively rewriting his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, Proust was at other times a tireless socialite, attending the grandest parties and dazzling guests with his vivacity and wit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read Proust himself instead.
- By Jack on 01-16-06
- Marcel Proust
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: David Case
An excellent biography
Reviewed: 09-05-15
What did you love best about Marcel Proust?
He was a reader since childhood. And he transformed his own life as the subject of his books, writing it as fiction and creating his proper style of writing.
What other book might you compare Marcel Proust to and why?
James Joyce's Ulysses because both Joyce and Proust books recreate a new form of making literature with te subject of their proper lives, but adding a sense of irony.
What about David Case’s performance did you like?
Excellent.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The narration of the author's childhood.
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Missing Out
- In Praise of the Unlived Life
- By: Adam Phillips
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 62
We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us. In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves into the gap between who we are and who we are not, to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived life. Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of several previous books, all widely acclaimed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good introduction to psychoanalysis
- By Marta D'Agord on 03-17-15
- Missing Out
- In Praise of the Unlived Life
- By: Adam Phillips
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
A good introduction to psychoanalysis
Reviewed: 03-17-15
If you could sum up Missing Out in three words, what would they be?
Human beings can't avoid failing
What was one of the most memorable moments of Missing Out?
Literature analysis.
Which character – as performed by Simon Shepherd – was your favorite?
Othelo
Any additional comments?
I recommend this book to everyone interested in psychoanalysis as after education. From literature analysis to clinical practice. Parents can't know every feeling or need of their children. Children want to satisfy their parents, but this is impossible. Mothers are supposed to know everything about their children needs, but this is impossible. The impossible knowledge amid lovers in general is the great issue of this book.
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Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction
- By: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this very short introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. Whilst the author discusses such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, she also draws pertinent examples from literature, art, film.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The indoctrinated preaching to the choir
- By Anonymous User on 09-30-14
- Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction
- By: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
An excellent map to poststructuralism
Reviewed: 03-17-15
What did you love best about Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction?
In five chapters the author presents us the multiple post structuralism theory. From Saussure to Lyotard, including Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault, Barthes, Kristeva, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek. Sex, Art, Politics, Literature and Ethics are some of the depicted themes.
What other book might you compare Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction to and why?
Barthes's books about Semiology.
Lacanian's Seminars.
Which scene was your favorite?
The analysis of a the dialogue between Alice and Humpty Dumpty.
What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?
After poststructuralism, meanings are not given, but can be changed or deconstructed.If value emanate from language and Language divides the world differently from culture to culture. Then, no appeal to a grounding reality. That is the question of XXI century: values can change, since values are different from themselves. This idea comes from Saussure's signifiers as difference.
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