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Creativity, Inc.
- Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- By: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,942
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,397
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,348
Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation - into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity - but it is also, as Pixar cofounder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good listen... If you speed up the player
- By andrea gini on 10-06-15
- Creativity, Inc.
- Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- By: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
Relevant insights
Reviewed: 04-19-16
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, the section on barriers to creativity was particularly useful.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Very deliberate reading lost some of the excitement of the story.
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Breakfast of Champions
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,334
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,906
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,897
Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Kurt Was Right to Grade This a C
- By Dubi on 01-10-16
- Breakfast of Champions
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
Malkovich is stunning
Reviewed: 09-29-15
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this version of BoC to everyone I know. I have loved reading Vonnegut. Listening to Malkovich reading Vonnegut: new level. His pacing, tone, and inflections are perfect for this book.
Have you listened to any of John Malkovich’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, this was a treat! I will seek his reads again and again.
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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,932
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,546
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,468
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than print!
- By J. D. May on 07-31-12
- The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
Great - minus the pedantic footnotes
Reviewed: 09-29-15
Any additional comments?
This would have been better presented as two options: 1) read with footnotes and asides inline, or 2) read without footnotes entirely. Classic book. Great listen. Gets a bit bogged down, unnecessarily.
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