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- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Veintiséis breves e irreverentes retratos de grandes escritores que se han convertido en la más divertida, melancólica y fascinante invitación a leer.
Faulkner a caballo, Conrad en tierra, Isak Dinesen en la vejez, Joyce en sus gestos, Stevenson entre criminales, Conan Doyle ante las mujeres, Wilde tras la cárcel, Turgueniev, Mann, Lampedusa, Rilke, Nabokov, Madame du Deffand, Rimbaud, Henry James, el gran Laurence Sterne...
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Reseñas:
«Cuesta contenerse ante el encanto de estos breves retratos... Exquisitos y astutamente irónicos. Un libro encantador.»
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
«Al leerlas, se cae de un modo insólito e inesperado en una sensación de éxtasis.»
The Washington Times
«Una maravilla que exige lecturas y relecturas.»
Antón Castro, El Periódico
«Marías es un escritor demasiado diestro como para acometer algo como una tediosa teoría de la biografía. [...] Para Marías los grandes escritores no son enigmas por resolver, pero sí paradojas para saborear. De hecho, muchas de estas "vidas escritas" comienzan con una paradoja.»
Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review
«Una lectura curiosa y gratificante. La voz segura e irónica de Marías junto con su perspicacia hacen que merezca la pena su lectura.»
Jamie Berger, San Francisco Chronicle
«Vidas escritas prueba lo cautivador, inteligente y original que es Marías como escritor... El éxito del libro se basa en el estilo y el tono, y Marías, cuyo sello es la precisión socarrona, cumple las expectativas con rigor y garbo.»
Sarah Emily Miano, The Observer
«Tengo la corazonada de que Vidas escritas, de Javier Marías, será considerado un texto de referencia en la historia de la biografía.»
Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun
«Marías humaniza a estos autores imprescindibles y entra en su leyenda para contar de ellas cotidianidades e iluminar lados dudosos, mas no banalidades. El resultado es una mejor comprensión de aquellas vidas vistas aquí con "afecto y guasa", y no exentas de ironía.»
Winston Manrique, Babelia
«Vidas escritas es una autobiografía acerca de otros, un viaje alrededor del cuarto de Javier Marías: en las fotos enmarcadas de las paredes, el autor aparece disfrazado unas veces de William Faulkner y otras de Henry James.»
Benjamín Prado, Diario 16
Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking listeners into the mind of Bankman-Fried.
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really expected more rigor from Michael Lewis
- By Wowhello on 10-04-23
By: Michael Lewis
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The Demon Next Door
- By: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.
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Odd narration choice
- By Amanda Fredericks on 03-08-19
By: Bryan Burrough
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Drinking
- A Love Story
- By: Caroline Knapp
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
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The Big Picture of Alcohol Dependence
- By Karen K on 07-26-16
By: Caroline Knapp
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
- One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes
- By: Jessica Pan
- Narrated by: Jessica Pan
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.
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Encouraging memoir: Sorry, cheer
- By Aaron Menz on 07-03-23
By: Jessica Pan
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Heat Check with Stephen and Dell Curry
- By: Stephen Curry, Dell Curry
- Narrated by: Stephen Curry, Dell Curry
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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What’s it take to overcome the odds and change the game? That’s at the heart of the warm and revealing conversations between epic NBA sharpshooters—and father and son—Dell and Stephen Curry in their Audible Original Heat Check. While Dell laid the groundwork, Stephen later delivered a whole new era of jaw-dropping three-pointers from a time previously dominated by flying dunks. In these episodes, we hear how Stephen experienced his life’s journey and how Dell saw it play out.
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Authentic
- By Gabrielle Foster on 06-24-24
By: Stephen Curry, and others
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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Audible Masterpiece
- By Phoenician on 09-10-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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My Story
- By: Marilyn Monroe
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Marilyn Monroe had the most famous face of the 20th century. A legendary actress, comedienne, and sex symbol, she has been one of Hollywood’s most talked-about performers ever since she first crossed the silver screen. Her fame persisted long after her tragic death—but as time has gone by, it has become almost impossible to separate the legend of the woman born as Norma Jeane from the truth. Now, at last, Marilyn’s real story can be told.
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Nice To Hear Norma Jean
- By Brooke R. Calder on 02-23-23
By: Marilyn Monroe
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Under the Bridge
- By: Rebecca Godfrey
- Narrated by: Rebecca Godfrey, Erin Moon, Mary Gaitskill - introduction
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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One moonlit night, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls - and boy - accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
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Powerful Account of 8 Young Teens Killing Another
- By Mary Burnight on 08-16-19
By: Rebecca Godfrey
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Trace of Doubt
- By: Samantha Weinberg
- Narrated by: Samantha Weinberg
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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In the summer of 1985, a brilliant young British DNA scientist Helena Greenwood is found murdered in her front garden in a quiet suburb in California. The police believe they know the killer’s identity but there’s no evidence against him, and the only thing linking him to the crime is the fact he’d been charged with sexually assaulting Helena just a few months previously.
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Waste of her energy
- By shannon j on 01-27-24
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Business Is About to Pick Up!
- 50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls
- By: Jim Ross
- Narrated by: Jim Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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For wrestling fans, Jim Ross’ voice is the soundtrack of an era. This book is your ringside ticket to wrestling’s most unforgettable moments—from the announcer who made them iconic. In the last 50 years, professional wrestling has risen up from a collection of regional territories to become a global phenomenon—and Jim Ross has been there for it all. From the grit and glory days of the 1970s with NWA, to the rise of WCW and the heyday of WWF and WWE, to signing on as on-air talent and senior advisor for wrestling’s newest chapter at AEW, Jim Ross has long had the best seat in the house.
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Another excellent JR book
- By Ryan and Mary Craig on 07-07-24
By: Jim Ross
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- luis bianchi
- 01-11-23
Un zoológico de vidas fabuloso
¡Vivirás para siempre Javier Marías! Vaya zoológico de criaturas esperpénticas y ¿encantadoras? este librito.
Una maravilla de catálogo, da un poco lo mismo haber leído o no a los retratados. Javier Marías los saca de sus sarcófagos de posteridad, con humor cirujano y travieso.
Narración impecable, vibra cada descripción, cada frase.
Perfecto.
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