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War and Peace
- Written by: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful reading of a masterpiece
- By Paul N Mason on 2023-09-13
- War and Peace
- Written by: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
Astonishing detail and performance!
Reviewed: 2024-04-12
I loved this novel. I was scared to take it on but after watching the BBC series I had the main characters down. Love Tolstoys attention to detail and relationships. Love the narrators performance!
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Birds and Us
- A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
- Written by: Tim Birkhead
- Narrated by: Tim Birkhead
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Getting religion and science wrong…
- By jason brown on 2023-03-30
- Birds and Us
- A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
- Written by: Tim Birkhead
- Narrated by: Tim Birkhead
Getting religion and science wrong…
Reviewed: 2023-03-30
Birkhead seems a devout member of the Neil deGrasse Tyson sect which pits dogmatic religion against enlightened secularist science. Its a reductionism that bugs me. I wanted to hear more story, myth and symbolism… Still a remarkable work of science history. Even if not entirely nuanced about its understanding of history of science and religion.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Collection: Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil
- Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Enjoy this Friedrich Nietzsche collection combining two of Nietzsche's most noteworthy pieces, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, into one audiobook!
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1 out of 5 stars
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AUDIBLE! Name the books and chapters.
- By jason brown on 2022-12-14
AUDIBLE! Name the books and chapters.
Reviewed: 2022-12-14
It is totally unacceptable for audible to not label and divide their books by the chapters works and chapters. This audiobook had two books in it but the chapters are just numbered 1-100 or whatever. Infuriating to try and navigate to a specific spot in one of the books. Get it together AMAZON. We pay good money for quality audiobooks now make them navigable.
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Moby Dick
- Written by: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 142
"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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unbelievably deep
- By Anonymous User on 2022-04-13
- Moby Dick
- Written by: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
Stunning performance!
Reviewed: 2022-12-13
I started this out of curiosity for the classic. I soon fell in love with the characters and narrators whit. Verbose to the max. But such interesting themes and prose. Religion, philosophy and nature. Loved it. Well read!
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- Written by: Constance Garnett - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 248
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 246
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best narrator for the best author
- By Tade on 2019-03-07
- The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- Written by: Constance Garnett - translator, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
Ugh. So so so good.
Reviewed: 2022-11-27
Amazing work of art. Wonderful performance! I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank God for such a story.
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Becoming Animal
- An Earthly Cosmology
- Written by: David Abram
- Narrated by: David Abram
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This audiobook subverts that distance, drawing listeners ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent but somehow annoying
- By jason brown on 2020-09-08
- Becoming Animal
- An Earthly Cosmology
- Written by: David Abram
- Narrated by: David Abram
Excellent but somehow annoying
Reviewed: 2020-09-08
I love the paradigm of Abram. But does anyone else find him intolerable? How he pronounces MIND. And its just TOO much. Too pretentious. Anyway i still love this approach.
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Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- Written by: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story5 out of 5 stars 49
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and deep and utterly gutting
- By Adam Drew on 2019-10-13
- Underland
- A Deep Time Journey
- Written by: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Wonderful
Reviewed: 2019-09-21
Well written and well read. Such a glorious exploration of the human and earthly underlands. Thank you!
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