Alexánder Obando
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Doce cuentos peregrinos [Strange Pilgrims]
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena a su perro para llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un país caribeño, solo para descubrir que sus ambiciones políticas siguen intactas.
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Excelente libro
- By Rolando Sanchez on 09-23-17
Extraños y lentos pero fascinantes
Reviewed: 03-18-19
Algunos fascinantes; otros menos. Pero todos cubiertos por la mano magistral de se autor. ¿Mi predilecto? Varios.
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Llámame por tu nombre [Call Me by Your Name]
- By: André Aciman, Guillermo Díaz Ceballos
- Narrated by: Roberto Gutiérrez-Teyssier
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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En una localidad de la costa de Italia, durante la década de los ochenta, la familia de Elio instauró la tradición de recibir en el verano a estudiantes o creadores jóvenes que, a cambio de alojamiento, ayudaran al cabeza de familia, catedrático, en sus compromisos culturales.
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Good
- By alex on 09-17-18
ME ENCANTÓ
Reviewed: 12-26-18
Un verdadero libro de amor hace nos enamoremos de sus personajes. Esto es lo que Aciman ha logrado.
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Great French Poems
- 35 Favourites from Villon to Baudelaire in French with English Translation
- By: François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Here are 35 of the greatest poems in the French language, carefully selected and read in French by Bill Homewood, the bilingual English classical actor who has spent half his life in France. To help those English speakers with just a little French to appreciate the glories of these poems, he provides his own clear English translations.
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Please make more bilangual audiobooks like this!!!
- By Fuzzy Numbers on 05-13-17
- Great French Poems
- 35 Favourites from Villon to Baudelaire in French with English Translation
- By: François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Reviewed: 11-21-18
A new look at old poetry. Regretfully, I do not speak French, but it was quite an experience to listen to the musicality of the poems. The translations were clear and heartfelt, while Bill Homewood's rendering in both languages were very professional. If you like French poetry but cannot read in that language, this is the audiobook for you.
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Estrella distante [Distant Star]
- By: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrated by: Tomás Martic Guazzini
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, fascinante y seductor poeta autodidacta habitual de los talleres literarios del Chile de Salvador Allende, y Carlos Wieder, piloto de las fuerzas aéreas chilenas que escribía versículos de la Biblia con el humo de una avioneta tras el golpe de estado de Pinochet: una y otra cara de la misma moneda, uno y el mismo oscuro personaje. Un individuo, encarnación pura del mal y la crueldad, que el narrador de esta historia, el alter ego de Bolaño y perenne detective salvaje Arturo Belano, se cuida de desmenuzar.
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Turn around
- By Cliente de Amazon on 02-21-20
- Estrella distante [Distant Star]
- By: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrated by: Tomás Martic Guazzini
HASTA EN SUS TRABAJOS MENORES
Reviewed: 05-01-18
Hasta en sus trabajos menores se nota la grandeza de Bolaño. Sin embargo, le doy tan solo tres estrellas a este audiolibro por la lectura. ¿Profesional? Sí. Pero un tanto tediosa.
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Amadeus
- By: Peter Shaffer
- Narrated by: Steven Brand, James Callis, Michael Emerson, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Ambition and jealousy - all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards?
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So glad this is available, but...
- By DARBY KERN on 01-18-19
- Amadeus
- By: Peter Shaffer
- Narrated by: Steven Brand, James Callis, Michael Emerson, Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, Mark Jude Sullivan
A CHARMING PIECE
Reviewed: 03-22-18
A charming piece. Very intense and well performed. No wonder it became an instant classic.
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Fausto [Faust]
- By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Franco Patiño, Aldo Lumbía, Marciel Moya, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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El doctor Fausto es, en cierta forma, un cadáver: vive junto a su propia muerte. En una ciudad decrépita se celebra una convención médica. Allí, Fausto encuentra a Santos, un antiguo paciente que afirma haber sido desahuciado por éste ocho años atrás. Santos es un ser grosero, inquietante y seductor que guiará a Fausto a través de un viaje alucinante por su propia conciencia: Los deseos de Fausto son órdenes para Santos.
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Great Find
- By Lazaro C. Ojeda on 03-04-15
BREVE Y ACURSILADO PERO VIGOROSO EN EL FONDO
Reviewed: 03-16-18
Es una obra maestra, pero esta versión parece esencializar solo los aspectos cursis y binaristas del texto. Quizás no se puede esperara más de una obra tan abreviada y recortada como esta. Pero cuando menos sirve para darse un superficial barniz de la estatura del gran Goethe.
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
- By: Tim Smith-Laing
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Philosopher Judith Butler's 1990 work, Gender Trouble, shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that "gender" was a category constructed by society rather than defined by one's genitalia, Butler went further and argued that gender is performative - it exists only in the acts that express it. Society determines that wearing makeup is "feminine" - but some men wear makeup. Are they "women"?
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Superficial and repetitive
- By Elizabeth on 10-02-17
VERY USEFUL
Reviewed: 06-15-17
Very useful inasmuch as it also gives you sources, influences and reactions of the cognoscenti; and not only the view of the author and her book.
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Living Biographies of Great Philosophers
- By: Henry Thomas, Dana Lee Thomas
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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From the Introduction: "Every biography is a story of adventure. The energetic personalities of the world represent an adventure in living. The philosophical personalities, on the other hand, represent an adventure in thinking. And when we examine the lives of the philosophers we find that the procession of a man's thoughts can be as exciting a spectacle as the pageantry of a man's deeds."
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Good, but all metaphysics
- By Daniel on 04-24-08
- Living Biographies of Great Philosophers
- By: Henry Thomas, Dana Lee Thomas
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
GOOD, BUT BIASED
Reviewed: 12-28-16
Nice overall review though quite biased towards theism. The author seems obsessed with trying to prove that all philosopher were, one way or the other, believers.
OK for 1941. Dated and inaccurate for 2016.
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Historia de Roma [History of Rome]
- By: Pedro López Barja de Quiroga, Francisco Javier Lomas Salmonte
- Narrated by: Santiago Noriega Gil
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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La historia de la ciudad fundada a orillas del Tíber se prolonga a lo largo de mil doscientos años con ritmos distintos: en una primera etapa, se suceden los acontecimientos, los conflictos civiles, las campañas por el Mediterráneo y la anexión de nuevos territorios.Con el emperador Augusto, en el cambio de era, el ritmo se pausa, la expansión se detiene y las luchas intestinas se convierten a menudo en querellas o conspiraciones palaciegas.
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Exhaustivo / Comprehensive
- By Alexánder Obando on 08-30-16
- Historia de Roma [History of Rome]
- By: Pedro López Barja de Quiroga, Francisco Javier Lomas Salmonte
- Narrated by: Santiago Noriega Gil
Exhaustivo / Comprehensive
Reviewed: 08-30-16
Buen trabajo. Exhaustivo y bien narrado. Muy recomendado.
Good work. Comprehensive and well narrated. Recommended.
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La Iliada [The Iliad]
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Daniel Quintero
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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La historia de la guerra de Troya. La anecdota suele regodearse sobre la figura legendaria de Homero, supuesto juglar ciego que iba de pueblo en pueblo cantando sus grandes narraciones epicas.
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LÁSTIMA QUE SEA TAN SOLO UN RESUMEN
- By Alexánder Obando on 06-22-16
- La Iliada [The Iliad]
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Daniel Quintero
LÁSTIMA QUE SEA TAN SOLO UN RESUMEN
Reviewed: 06-22-16
Muy bien narrado por una voz acompasada y clara. Lástima que tan solo sea un resumen. La Ilíada merece mucho más que eso.
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