Diana Prince
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Our Man in Havana
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In a legendary novel that appears to predict the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Graham Greene introduces James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman whose life in transformed when he is asked to join the British Secret Service. He agrees, and finds himself with no information to offer, so begins to invent sources and agencies which do not exist, but which appear very real to his superiors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great! Minus the music please
- By Diana Prince on 12-10-2019
- Our Man in Havana
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
Great! Minus the music please
Reviewed: 12-10-2019
Graham Greene's classic punctuated with full orchestral pieces. Maybe the producers were trying to create an old-world ambiance, almost like being at the opera or some such live performance. The musical pieces at the beginning and end of each chapter are too loud, too boisterous and leave you with the feeling of not knowing where to run. It says a lot about this iconic novel that I still enjoyed it in spite of the noisy distraction.
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How the Universe Got Its Spots
- Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
- By: Janna Levin
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
The gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin sets out to determine the size of the universe, along the way providing an intimate look at the day-to-day life of a globe-trotting physicist. Nimbly synthesizing geometry, topology, and chaos and string theories, Levin shows how the pattern of hot and cold spots left over from the Big Bang may one day reveal the size and shape of the cosmos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful.
- By Paul Hannah on 19-04-2020
- How the Universe Got Its Spots
- Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
- By: Janna Levin
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
Too personal to be Science
Reviewed: 12-10-2019
It's really a white girl's angst living in the UK (of all places) as she misses the US (!). Rest of us are still interested in Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory while not having too many issues with where we live
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
- By: Lee Smolin
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he witnessed firsthand.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful narration. Tough subject matter!
- By Diana Prince on 29-08-2019
- Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
- By: Lee Smolin
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Beautiful narration. Tough subject matter!
Reviewed: 29-08-2019
Beautiful narration. A very well-written history of some of the most intellectually challenging concepts related to Quantum Theory and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Full of drama and anecdotes from a life in the quest for the elusive theory of Quantum Gravity. Makes you wish that you had a degree in science and then come to this, and not a literature student!
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What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- By: Adam Becker
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story5 out of 5 stars 35
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who challenged the establishment to rethink quantum physics and the nature of reality. Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed questions about the reality underlying quantum physics as meaningless.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic survey of the observation problem, albeit biased.
- By Mike on 31-08-2019
- What Is Real?
- The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
- By: Adam Becker
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
Brilliant!
Reviewed: 30-01-2019
As good as a wholesome crime thriller! You can read it again and again and it will show you the universe in a handful of sand.
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Classics of British Literature
- By: John Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John Sutherland
- Length: 24 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
For more than 1,500 years, the literature of Great Britain has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged, and humbled readers both inside and outside its borders.Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Swift, Conrad, Wilde-the roster of powerful British writers is remarkable. More important, Britain's writers have long challenged readers with new ways of understanding an ever-changing world.This series of 48 fascinating lectures by an award-winning professor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Diana Prince on 21-12-2018
- Classics of British Literature
- By: John Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John Sutherland
Disappointing
Reviewed: 21-12-2018
Disappointing! John Sutherland is obviously ideally suited to present a History of English Literature. But the compilation of lectures barely scratches the surface of this rich tradition. Great if you want to sound clever with your friends! But, only that. I suspect its a failing of The Great Lectures Series in general. An effort to dumb down and make academics accessible to casual listeners. Simply results in a superficial experience
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The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida
- By: Lawrence Cahoone, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Lawrence Cahoone
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
What is reality? Ask yourself whether you can actually know the answer, much less be sure that you can know it, and you've begun to grapple with the metaphysical and epistemological quandaries that have occupied, teased, and tormented modern philosophy's greatest intellects since the dawn of modern science and a century before the Enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Mr. Luke A. Barnes on 24-07-2017
Challenging and Rewarding
Reviewed: 11-09-2018
Taught me stuff I had only heard about! The concepts require patience and repeated readings/hearings to understand. But, if one gathers even a fraction of what is being explained, it opens up vistas of learning that is not merely theoretical but observable is one's own life. Very rewarding.
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Sons and Lovers
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Sons and Lovers is widely considered by critics and readers alike as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpiece and a classic interpretation of the Oedipal complex. Surely one of the greatest autobiographical novels ever written, it tells the story of Paul Morel, a sensitive artist with a far stronger attachment to his mother than his working-class, alcoholic father. Searching for love and human connection, Paul is torn between two very different women, but neither of them measures up to his mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Even Lawrence dates
- By Diana Prince on 30-06-2018
- Sons and Lovers
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
Even Lawrence dates
Reviewed: 30-06-2018
Came back to Sons and Lovers after many years. A bit disappointed. In a post modern multicultural world, even D.H. Lawrence dates.
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Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- By: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende - Foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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captivating, fascinating, exceptional
- By Kindle Customer on 23-11-2020
- Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- By: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende - Foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
The most powerful book I have ever read
Reviewed: 27-01-2018
I am not qualified enough to review Open Veins. All I can say is that it is the most powerful, heart-wrenching, and emotional narration of History that I have ever come across.
Its incisive and relentless understanding of the mechanics of pillage, both in the past and happening right now, makes me understand my own country better and place in relevant and social context world-events unfolding in the second decade of the 21st Century.
I will never forget the impact this book had on me.
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10,486
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,858
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8,811
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us sapiens? In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here, and where we're going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-provoking
- By Ant Le Breton on 30-08-2017
- Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Fact and Fiction
Reviewed: 23-10-2017
Mesmerising at times. Simplistic often. Oversimplified and populist understandings drive some of the most complex issues in human history, such as imperialism. Good, light reading.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Story4 out of 5 stars 219
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oh for Armando Duran...
- By Kim on 06-09-2018
Timeless
Reviewed: 05-03-2017
Would you consider the audio edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude to be better than the print version?
No. Both have their own attractions.
What was one of the most memorable moments of One Hundred Years of Solitude?
The book is full of memorable moments. Perhaps the ending would stand out among many such
Which character – as performed by John Lee – was your favourite?
The Colonel
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No
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