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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art - and finding the strength to stand up again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overwhelmingly powerful
- By Juju on 19-11-2024
- Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
First half great, goes downhill fast.
Reviewed: 12-08-2024
The first several chapters, his biographical stuff and the telling of the story of his attack, and his survival is really great. Then we get to the chapter about his attacker… and it made me physically cringe. From there, it didn’t get any better. His story is fascinating, but Salman seems like the type of guy at a party your non-pretentious friends side eye saying “who the hell brought this bloke.”
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Bourdain
- In Stories
- By: Laurie Woolever
- Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look into Bourdain’s life through the stories and recollections of his closest friends and colleagues. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain’s long-time assistant and confidante, interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony’s orbit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really good, then sh**, then good again.
- By Moz on 30-05-2024
- Bourdain
- In Stories
- By: Laurie Woolever
- Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, full cast
Really good, then sh**, then good again.
Reviewed: 30-05-2024
This book can be divided up into 3 parts, 2 of which are really good, but the other not so much.
The first third is really good, consists of contributions from his family and friends from before Kitchen Confidential, they’re all very interesting to hear from.
The second third is the not so good one. It’s mostly hearing from his friends he made while at the peak of his career success and fame… so famous people. To be frank, a lot of these people come off like d bags.
The third is when the wheels start falling off, and the situations and factors that ultimately lead to his awful demise. Obviously very compelling listening/reading.
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Beyond Trans
- Does Gender Matter?
- By: Heath Fogg Davis
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 2
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Story1.5 out of 5 stars 2
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculous nonsense.
- By Moz on 10-12-2023
- Beyond Trans
- Does Gender Matter?
- By: Heath Fogg Davis
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Ridiculous nonsense.
Reviewed: 10-12-2023
When people inevitably start to ask “when did trans activism start to go so wrong?” I’m going to tell them to grab a copy of this book. If you’re chasing horribly biased, illogical, unscientific, and inaccurate information to support your ideological/political agenda, this is the book for you.
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The Real Hank Aaron
- An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King
- By: Terence Moore, Dusty Baker - foreword
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance2 out of 5 stars 1
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Story2 out of 5 stars 1
When journalist Terence Moore was 12 years old, he treasured his poster of Henry Aaron. Years later, Aaron would sign it for him. Later still, Moore would be named an honorary pallbearer at the home run king's funeral. Friends and family knew Aaron as quick-witted, hilarious, and fiercely opinionated beyond what was shown in public. With the encouragement of Aaron's family, Moore now shares this intimate perspective on the baseball legend, the culmination of decades of friendship and correspondence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what you’re looking for
- By Moz on 05-10-2023
- The Real Hank Aaron
- An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King
- By: Terence Moore, Dusty Baker - foreword
- Narrated by: James Shippy
Not what you’re looking for
Reviewed: 05-10-2023
If you’re looking for a biography of the great Hank Aaron, THIS ISN’T IT.
It’s just as much a biography of the author Terrence Moore as it is for Hank.
Terrence makes his idol worship of Hank Aaron far too plain to see and it gets in the way of him telling Mr Aaron’s story.
If you’re in the mood for a good baseball read, look somewhere else.
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The Baseball 100
- By: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 30 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than 200 years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed every minute
- By Moz on 18-08-2023
- The Baseball 100
- By: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
Enjoyed every minute
Reviewed: 18-08-2023
30 hours long and I enjoyed every minute. A must for every fan of baseball history.
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Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason
- On Recognition and Renewal
- By: Megan Davis
- Narrated by: Megan Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4 out of 5 stars 39
At Uluru, an invitation was issued to the Australian people. With the upcoming referendum, the nation will decide whether to accept that invitation. In this compelling, fresh and imaginative essay, Megan Davis draws out the significance and the promise of this “constitutional moment” – what it could mean for recognition and justice. Davis presents the Voice to Parliament as an Australian solution to an Australian problem. For Indigenous people, it is a practical response to “the torment of powerlessness”.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Completely pointless. let's nuke ourselves.
- By ELAD on 04-08-2023
- Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason
- On Recognition and Renewal
- By: Megan Davis
- Narrated by: Megan Davis
As good as expected…
Reviewed: 15-08-2023
Particularly loved all the parts where she straight up admitted the proposed voice is a subversion of modern liberal democracy. Didn’t even attempt to address any concerns those leaning towards a ‘No’ vote are voicing. If this is the best they’ve got, support for the Yes campaign is destined to continue to drop.
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Transgender History, Second Edition
- The Roots of Today's Revolution
- By: Susan Stryker
- Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Covering American transgender history from the mid-20th century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Underwhelming…
- By Moz on 11-06-2023
- Transgender History, Second Edition
- The Roots of Today's Revolution
- By: Susan Stryker
- Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
Underwhelming…
Reviewed: 11-06-2023
I bought this book because I genuinely want to gain a better understanding of what the concept of gender has recently become, and to hopefully reach a point where I can see some truth behind the ideology at the core of gender identity and transgenderism. No such luck unfortunately… this book is an 8 hour long cope by the author. Nothing but a string of sexist nonsense and wilful misrepresentation of linguistics, science, and biology.
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Delusions of Gender
- The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
- By: Cordelia Fine
- Narrated by: Jaimi Barbakoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
The brilliant and hugely influential book by the winner of the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Books Prize. Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That’s why, we’re told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just suited to different things.
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1 out of 5 stars
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When academics prioritise activism…
- By Moz on 16-02-2023
- Delusions of Gender
- The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
- By: Cordelia Fine
- Narrated by: Jaimi Barbakoff
When academics prioritise activism…
Reviewed: 16-02-2023
If you’re looking for a book that “steel-mans” the nurture side of the nature/nurture debate with regards to sex differences like I was, this isn’t it. Only made it 2 hours in and couldn’t do it anymore. Consistent biased interpretation from a cherry picked list of contentious studies. She set out with a point to prove and didn’t care what she had to do to get there. Not good
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Why Gender Matters
- What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
- By: Leonard Sax MD PhD
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls—how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing misbehavior, and failing to help kids to reach their full potential.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for parents and teachers
- By Ben Jones on 27-06-2019
- Why Gender Matters
- What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
- By: Leonard Sax MD PhD
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Fantastic
Reviewed: 09-02-2023
This is brilliant, will definitely recommend to my friends, particularly my friends who are teachers.
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Socialism… Seriously
- A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
- By: Danny Katch
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 14
Danny Katch brings together the two great Marxist traditions of Karl and Groucho to provide an entertaining and insightful introduction to what the socialist tradition has to say about democracy, economics, and the potential of human beings to be something more than bomb-dropping, planet-destroying, racist fools.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important. Needed. Great Introduction to Socialism.
- By Andrey Ivanov, PhD (Economics) on 10-07-2023
- Socialism… Seriously
- A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
- By: Danny Katch
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Hilarious… but not the way the author intended.
Reviewed: 13-12-2022
What absolute drivel. It’s like the author is trying to sell Socialism to a class of 3rd graders, constantly strawmanning every argument against socialism and for free markets, presenting misleading half truths and statistics…. And Chapter 6, my goodness Chapter 6, Mr. Katch should be f***ing embarrassed for writing that ‘Imagine’ section. Hilarious as it was, it actually perfectly encapsulates the ridiculous, fantastical idealism of any legitimate socialist.
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