Yaboingin
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Island
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,819
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,617
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,614
In his final novel - which he considered his most important - Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and - to his amazement - give him hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great narration for a great book.
- By AndrewL on 09-21-16
- Island
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Early '60s ideas
Reviewed: 02-20-18
A society revolving around mind enhancing toadstools, living in the moment no matter what, flrtation with eastern religions, communal living in harmony with nature, and sex. Doesn't always make sense for example they use drugs for everything except they use hypnotism for major surgery and tantric yoga for birth control. The psychology of the times was worth a revisit. Now if I just had my old Alan Watts tapes.
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Flying with the Enemy
- Memoir of a Young Cadet
- By: Oleg V. Oksevski
- Narrated by: Don Warrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Oleg Okshevsky was born a son of a Russian Tsarist cavalry officer in 1915, in Yevpatoriya, Russia. Because of the Russian Revolution he was raised in Serbia and went to school at a Russian Cadet Academy. He later became a bomber pilot in the Royal Yugoslavian Air Force. When war broke out and Germany invaded Yugoslavia, Nazis told Serbians to walk to concentration camps, while the Croatians sympathized and gave in to Hitler. Oleg refused to walk to any sort of camp.
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4 out of 5 stars
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an epic of survival against terrible odds
- By Midwestbonsai on 05-25-16
- Flying with the Enemy
- Memoir of a Young Cadet
- By: Oleg V. Oksevski
- Narrated by: Don Warrick
Stay true to yourself
Reviewed: 01-30-18
Liked it a lot. I never heard such a tale of survival against such brutal stupidity. But survive he did by being true to his values. Inspirational. Great that he wrote it himself. He repeats himself at times is my only quibble but who cares. Like he says, others refused to tell this story the real way it happened. He had to tell it. learned a lot from this behind the lines tale. Narator is very good.
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