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Less Than Zero
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 815
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 678
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Story4 out of 5 stars 684
Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How one wishes this writer was without talent!
- By Darwin8u on 09-21-13
- Less Than Zero
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Don't Hear It.
Reviewed: 03-15-21
I grew up with these people and the performance completely misses the mark. I don't understand why people try to act books instead of just reading them, because every book suffers for it. There is nothing worse than hearing someone read a line and then hearing inflection stated in the text and realizing how the performance and text don't match.
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Writing the Big Book
- The Creation of A.A.
- By: William H. Schaberg
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 37 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
In Writing the Big Book, William H. Schaberg presents an exciting, research-driven narrative of the history of the book, Alcoholic Anonymous, and the formative years of A.A. Granted extensive access to the group's archives along with several other sources, the author reveals the early Fellowship's conflicts and personalities, successes and failures, and dispels many of the myths found in such canonical texts as Dr. Bob and the Good Old Timers, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, and A Brief History of the Big Book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a TEXT BOOK. Be aware!
- By Annie Armstrong on 12-25-19
- Writing the Big Book
- The Creation of A.A.
- By: William H. Schaberg
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Just read please
Reviewed: 09-19-20
Natasha Soudek does a nice job when she just reads. When she tries to act I find the voices sound roughly the same and. the voice she chooses makes it a bit difficult to distinguish what she is saying at times. Later in the book there is less of this and her performance is the better for it.
As far as the text is concerned it is a nice contribution to the lexicon of AA histories and like several of the works produced in the last couple of decades goes a good way to correcting much of the received view. There are times when Schaberg goes a bit far in making his point. That being said, this account is the most comprehensive as the existing dissertations, conference presentations, articles, online resources, and books produced to this point were each more economical in scope.
There are points where Schaberg falls short of previous work and these are mostly in the area of not addressing source material Wilson used in constructing the text. Instead we get regurgitation of the text. Nowhere is this more evident than his discussion of "We Agnostics." Looking forward to how he would show how certain parts were lifted from other spiritual texts, we get nothing but the "received view." This is particularly disheartening when one considers the extent to which he goes on to try to explain the identity of the typists for the myriad of letters he discusses.
I would suggest this text to AA members and all interested in learning about the fellowship. However, I would suggest that both the written and Audio copies be bought, because the parts that bring really new insights will be fitting to cite to others.
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