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Labyrinths
- Selected Stories & Other Writings
- By: Jorge Luis Borges
- Narrated by: Dominic Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labelled Borgesian.
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Look, this is Borges
- By Lars Spuybroek on 05-27-20
- Labyrinths
- Selected Stories & Other Writings
- By: Jorge Luis Borges
- Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Spoken in just the tone I like to hear Borges.
Reviewed: 06-19-22
The translation is superb, and I and wish it were a more extensive group of stories. He has been imitated by so many South American writers yet none can duplicate his talent. The story “Return of The Gods” reminds me of Kafka.
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The Hidden Universe
- An Investigation into Non-Human Intelligences
- By: Anthony Peake
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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From aliens or ghosts to the djinn, electric-voice phenomenon, and UFO abductions, this book is the most comprehensive and enlightening survey ever made of encounters with the others.
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One of his best if not the best
- By johnny_vindaloo on 02-20-21
- The Hidden Universe
- An Investigation into Non-Human Intelligences
- By: Anthony Peake
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
Up to date information presented in a way requiring deep thinking.
Reviewed: 05-09-22
You can draw your own conclusions about living in a matrix. The part about DMT and methatonin was cool.
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Morning Star, Midnight Sun
- The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942
- By: Jeffrey R. Cox
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
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Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire.
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Very enjoyable popular history
- By Sheldon Campbell on 08-17-19
- Morning Star, Midnight Sun
- The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942
- By: Jeffrey R. Cox
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Covers so much Naval and ground combat, maybe too much about Naval aviators.
Reviewed: 11-22-21
The narrator has an ear for irony. The author could have spent less time describing the pilots from the Enterprise and more on Marine aviators on Guadalcanal, the tip of the spear. My father flew in Joe Foss’ squadron, VMF 212 and only 4 men from the original squadron survived the war.
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The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
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This audiobook deserves 6 stars
- By D. Littman on 11-15-05
- The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
Gripping narrative, well paced and suspenseful,
Reviewed: 10-21-21
I’ve travelled the upper Amazon in Ecuador and the descriptions of the forest (it’s not a jungle) are hauntingly familiar. We travelled by dugout canoe, catching piranha with a hand line to eat. Only one contact with the natives, they gave us some flesh from a giant fish 7 feet long.
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The German Aces Speak II
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- By: Colin D. Heaton, Anne-Marie Lewis, Dr. Dennis Showalter - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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In The German Aces Speak II, Heaton and Lewis paint a picture of the war through the eyes of four more of Germany's most significant pilots, put together from numerous interviews personally conducted by Heaton from the 1980s through the 2000s. The four ex-Luftwaffe fighter aces bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war, their battles, their off-duty lives, their lives after the war, and perhaps most importantly, how they felt about serving under the Nazi leadership of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler.
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Too Slow!
- By zur45 on 05-01-20
- The German Aces Speak II
- World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
- By: Colin D. Heaton, Anne-Marie Lewis, Dr. Dennis Showalter - foreword, Trevor J. Constable - foreword
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Gripping and fast paced with good narration.
Reviewed: 08-29-21
My father was a Mariine fighter pilot in WWll but he didn’t like talking about killing people so I truly enjoyed these true stories about the German aces. They were actually nice guys who didn’t like the Nazis at all.
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