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The Interpretation of Murder
- A Novel
- By: Jed Rubenfeld
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 60
The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud's most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius' first and only journey to America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Voyerurism in the guise of history
- By Helen W. Karl on 10-24-06
- The Interpretation of Murder
- A Novel
- By: Jed Rubenfeld
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
light-fingered prof needs fact-checker
Reviewed: 04-09-17
Is there anything you would change about this book?
factual errors about NYC geography.
How could the performance have been better?
pronunciation of "affect" by psychologists is wrong along with other slips. German vowels awful.
Do you think The Interpretation of Murder needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
It has one, which is better
Any additional comments?
1) The inner narrative is stolen from Freud's famous "Dora" case, only here she is called Nora. Rather unsubtle. 2)Writer is aware of Jung's adultery, but not Freud's with his own sister-in-law. Yale prof making klutzy protagonist a Harvard man is a bit gratuitous.
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The Locked Ward
- Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
- By: Dennis O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Dennis O'Donnell
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
The Locked Ward is an extraordinary memoir that sets out to reveal the true story of life in a psychiatric ward - the fear, the violence and despair, and also the care and the compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and those of the friends he made on the ward, O'Donnell provides a detailed account of day-to-day life behind the doors of the most feared and stigmatised environment in healthcare.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration unbearable
- By Paul on 01-20-12
- The Locked Ward
- Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
- By: Dennis O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Dennis O'Donnell
Narration unbearable
Reviewed: 01-20-12
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No; the man has no sense of prose
Would you be willing to try another one of Dennis O'Donnell’s performances?
Under no circumstances.
Was The Locked Ward worth the listening time?
Vary hard to stay with it.
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