Eileen J. Sarett-Cuasay
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This Is What It Sounds Like
- What the Music You Love Says About You
- By: Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers
- Narrated by: Susan Rogers
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
When you listen to music, do you prefer lyrics or melody? Intricate harmonies or driving rhythm? The “real” sounds of acoustic instruments or those of computerized synthesizers? Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince’s “Purple Rain”), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you. She explains that we each possess a unique “listener profile” based on our brain’s reaction to seven key dimensions of any record: authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm, and timbre.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needed to include the music
- By Sarah on 01-18-23
- This Is What It Sounds Like
- What the Music You Love Says About You
- By: Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers
- Narrated by: Susan Rogers
You’ll never listen to music the same way again.
Reviewed: 10-09-24
So educational and exciting. Loved it!
One thing though: This book likely works better if you’re reading it with the accompanying playlist going. Constantly pausing the audiobook to go listen to the mentioned song sample hit really annoying really quickly.
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Playing with Fire
- The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
- By: Lawrence O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,108
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,003
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,002
The 1968 US presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America's shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different and how we got to where we are now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant synthesis of history past and present
- By Dwight on 11-12-17
- Playing with Fire
- The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
- By: Lawrence O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell
Playing with Fire: It's Been This Crazy Before.
Reviewed: 06-25-18
A rich and riveting account of arguably the most tumultuous, consequential year in American politics and culture. Through vivid and heartfelt storytelling, every iconic character comes alive as the complex mixtures of virtue and (often profound) fallibility that they undoubtedly were. The reader comes to understand the origins of so many elements of our current state of US Politics.
Lawrence O'Donnell, as both a political analyst and dramatic writer, brings to his subject a considerable wealth of researched and personal knowledge, an incisive understanding of people, events and their relationships to our current times, and a poetic imagination for what might have been had past events been even slightly different. The author's audio book narrative--delivered in the rich, mellow yet passionate voice heard and loved weeknights on MSNBC--provides not only an extra layer of enjoyment, but a feeling of intimacy as if receiving personally the scholarly understanding of someone who was also THERE. Highly recommended.
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