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My Struggle, Book 6
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken - translator, Don Bartlett - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 43 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 145
My Struggle introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intense and irresistible to hear. Unafraid of the big issues - death, love, art, fear - and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one
- By Montcalm on 02-22-19
Well worth the journey.
Reviewed: 11-06-18
Asks many questions that it can't possibly answer which is all I ever really want from a book. I would eagerly read Volume 7 if he wrote it, but he better not ... for Linda's sake.
It feels like a unique work and approach to writing. and yet, it succeeds at being universal enough to feel like My struggle instead of his. And that is despite the fact that I suffer almost none of the troubles he has. But I can see how narrowly I escaped them.
Someday, when it's reissued, he should consider changing the title of the series to the one suggested by his brother's email response to receiving the first manuscript.
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 26,258
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23,258
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23,217
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
- Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
It's simply unbelievable how great this story is!
Reviewed: 08-20-18
Fantastic writing and narrating. I will never forget it. The build up of tension is relentless even if you know how it ends. The whole thing is essentially spoiler-proof. And at the end you will weep.
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The Rider
- By: Tim Krabbé
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 209
With The Rider, Tim Krabbé has created a book unique in the ranks of sporting literature. He describes one 150-kilometre race in just 150 pages. In the course of the narrative, we get to know the forceful, bumbling Lebusque, the aesthete Barthelemy, the Young Turk Reilhan, and the mysterious rider from Cycles Goff'. Krabbé battles with and against each of them in turn, failing on the descents, shining on the climbs, suffering on the (false) flats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ah, the beautiful words...
- By Sparkly on 08-15-13
- The Rider
- By: Tim Krabbé
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
listen while climbing your favorite mountain!
Reviewed: 05-29-18
A beautiful piece of writing that shows that enlightenment can come from many places other than silent zen retreats. And with much more excitment. Fantastic narration as well.
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Rabbit Redux
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Story4 out of 5 stars 241
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom - known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters - finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife. How he resolves - or further complicates - his problems makes a compelling listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bring on more Rabbit!
- By L. Berlyne on 02-16-09
- Rabbit Redux
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
the very best
Reviewed: 03-15-17
One of the best books of the 20th century. of course I have not read enough literature in my lifetime to be able to say that. But still, if there is something better, I sure hope someone lets me know about it before I run out of reading time...
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