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And Away...
- Auteur(s): Bob Mortimer
- Narrateur(s): Bob Mortimer
- Durée: 7 h et 59 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great, but why the f**k is this censored?
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-11-07
- And Away...
- Auteur(s): Bob Mortimer
- Narrateur(s): Bob Mortimer
Great, but why the f**k is this censored?
Évalué le: 2021-11-07
I love Bob Mortimer, and while he, by his own account, is a bad actor, this book comes across very well. It's quite well written, and though he's clearly not great at narration in the larger degree, in the smaller degree, and overall the audiobook does benefit from the author telling his own life story.
I have one major complaint, though, which is (as per my headline) why the fuck is this censored? He says "c**t" at one point (which to UK residents is a fairly common unisex toss-around pejorative for being a tool), and it's bleeped out. It's a book. Don't censor my books. Especially without telling me, and without understanding the meaning of the word in the geographical context it's used. And especially when the man who wrote it regularly uses similar words in his very public television work. It's like publishing George Carlin's 7 words you can't say on TV, and bleeping the lot of them. Get over yourselves. They're just words. And not even demonstrably or deliberately harmful ones.
Oh, I'm so very sorry, I have to censor myself now just to get this complaint about them censoring the expected words of an author who speaks that way published. Time to go back and add asterisks' despite everyone knowing what words I'm using, and this helping nobody.
Great book. Good, if iffy, read by the author. Censored for no f**cking reason.
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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)
- Auteur(s): Neil Gaiman
- Narrateur(s): Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, full cast
- Durée: 19 h et 39 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 1 173
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1 039
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 1 034
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life. But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent presentation of Neil Gaiman's classic
- Écrit par Jeff le 2017-10-25
- American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production)
- Auteur(s): Neil Gaiman
- Narrateur(s): Ron McLarty, Daniel Oreskes, full cast
Thoroughly Excellent
Évalué le: 2018-09-19
Neil Gaiman's American Gods is an amazing book. I first read it about 10 years ago and found it to be one of the best-written and most original novels I had experienced at the time. With the release of the Tenth Anniversary Edition I thought it was about time to read it again. In this case, I opted for an audio book. And I was not disappointed.
I have major problems with "performances" or otherwise altered versions of books, so I was a bit skeptical about this "full cast production". I needn't have been worried, however, as this audio book takes the one good thing about performances (having different actors for different character voices) without losing any of the words or details that are generally thrown away when adapted to a radio-play type format. You have a full cast in this, but you also have a narrator reading all of Neil Gaiman's words - even down to the interstitial "he said, adjectively". In addition, you get Neil Gaiman himself narrating the "Coming to America" sections.
So, an excellent book, written by an excellent author, and produced in a thoroughly excellent fashion. Hard to go wrong.
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