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Break Shot: My First 21 Years
- Words + Music, Vol. 2
- By: James Taylor
- Narrated by: James Taylor
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48,313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41,589
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,249
"I’m James Taylor and I’m a professional autobiographer", says the celebrated folk singer at the start of this tender audio memoir. Through decades of music by one of the best-selling musicians of all time, who created classics like "Fire and Rain" and "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor has doled out his history in the poetry of his work. Taylor says his early life is, "the source of many of my songs", and Break Shot is a tour of his first 21 years in rich, new detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love His Music, Love His Story
- By M. Batt on 01-31-20
- Break Shot: My First 21 Years
- Words + Music, Vol. 2
- By: James Taylor
- Narrated by: James Taylor
A very Sad Commentary on the Music Scene
Reviewed: 04-14-20
It’s sad. Some of the songs and artists you admire most are not as they seem. As a teen, you enjoy the words, the music and what seems like a glorious lifestyle. Years later you learn about the story behind the performers. Remember Harvey’s and ‘now you know the rest of the story !’ At some point in the past, individuals would be ashamed of drug abuse, mental illness, illicit drug use, free sex, etc.
Now it’s used to try to explain away or give credit for a performer’s success. No one is ever ashamed of events in their lives. It’s the force that is used to explain their success. Anyone every think how great these performances would be without the years in institutions or rehab? Are these shocking stories the positive force producing these great performances or the reasons that these performances are not even better? Are the events required to produce quality performances or do these compositions exist despite these events? JT— might I ask if you are not ashamed of your past? Should I look at you and admire you? Nope. I see this as sad. I love the music but my feelings behind your persona has decreased. Think this inspires others to write music and perform?
I think not. Too bad you weren’t a respected physician like your father , before his fall from grace. Again, your life is sad!
AHB, MD.
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Navajos Wear Nikes
- A Reservation Life
- By: Jim Kristofic
- Narrated by: Jim Kristofic
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 443
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 444
Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they struggled to readapt to an Anglo world that no longer felt like home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and Educational
- By Savanna A Harvey on 07-13-15
- Navajos Wear Nikes
- A Reservation Life
- By: Jim Kristofic
- Narrated by: Jim Kristofic
The Best Ever
Reviewed: 11-19-15
This document is so plain and pure, one can't help but admire the author. I have a much better understanding of the Dineh, even though I, too, spent many many vacations volunteering in Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado.. JIM. TOLD IT ALL, with love, understanding and complete finesse.. A very bright and deep thinker. I have learned very much from this narrative. I hope all read it.
AHEHE
HAGOONE
MAY YOU ALWAYS WALK IN BEAUTY, , JIM!
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Ally
- My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
- By: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Michael B. Oren
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 368
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 332
Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren's tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A | Lie
- By AB on 07-31-15
- Ally
- My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
- By: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Michael B. Oren
Delightful
Reviewed: 11-03-15
a great insiders history of modern day us - israeli relationship. Wake up and see what really happened behind the scenes.
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Rashi
- By: Elie Wiesel
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical audio book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Non-Fiction Overview of Rashi
- By Wandering Hoosier on 04-30-15
- Rashi
- By: Elie Wiesel
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Needs work on pronunciation!
Reviewed: 06-21-15
This piece was well written and an important part of the discovery of our sages and their writings. The readers pronunciation of the rabbis names was so abominable that it was difficult for the listener to keep track of what the author had to say. One need not be Jewish or even be familiar with the Hebrew language to pronounce names correctly. Had someone with Hebrew knowledge discussed each name with the narrator, it would be a much more authoritative text. Many singers provide beautiful music with a little help in pronunciation of a foreign language. There is no excuse for this abomination.
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