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Titel: Töten und andere Tätigkeiten

Autor:: Daniel Kehlmann

Erzähler: Otto Clemens, Stefan Fleming, Daniel Kehlmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-16-10

Herausgeber: Preiser Records

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Lesung dreier Erzählungen aus dem Erzählband "Unter der Sonne" von 1998:

©2002 Preiser Records; (P)2002 Preiser Records

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Title: SUM: Circle of Friends (Stephen Fry) / The Cast (Emily Blunt)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Stephen Fry, Emily Blunt

Format: Highlights

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales of the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Circle of Friends', read by Stephen Fry, the afterlife is only made up of people you've met before.

In 'The Cast', read by Emily Blunt, you find out that you owe the same number of hours of service playing background characters in other people's dreams as you spent dreaming in your lifetime.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology, and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay, and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (Observer)

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Title: SUM: Sum (Stephen Fry) / Reversal (Gillian Anderson)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Stephen Fry, Gillian Anderson

Format: Highlights

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The opening and closing stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

'SUM', read by Stephen Fry, posits an afterlife in which you relive all your experiences.

'Reversal', read by Gillian Anderson, denies an afterlife but offers an experience where everything that happened in your life happens again, but backward.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology, and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay, and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (Observer)

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Title: SUM: Perpetuity (Stephen Fry) / Blueprints (Emily Blunt)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Stephen Fry, Emily Blunt

Format: Highlights

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Perpetuity', read by Stephen Fry, you learn that only sinners enjoy life after death.

In 'Blueprints', read by Emily Blunt, we are granted the ultimate gift of revelation: an opportunity to view the underlying code.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Metamorphosis (Stephen Fry) / Impulse (Jack Davenport)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Stephen Fry, Jack Davenport

Format: Highlights

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Metamorphosis', read by Stephen Fry, there are three deaths, first when the body ceases to function, second when the body is consigned to the grave and third when your name is spoken for the last time and you must wait in a lobby for this death to occur.

In 'Impulse', read by Jack Davenport, humans are the small networked units of hardware running a massive and unseen software programme, the product of three cosmic Programmers.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: The Indian Clerk

Author: David Leavitt

Narrator: Graeme Malcom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 117 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

This critically acclaimed and emotionally charged novel about the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown and unschooled mathematical genius is historical fiction at its best: ambitious, profound, and absorbing.

Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world. A literary masterpiece, it appeared on four best seller lists, including the Los Angeles Times, and received dazzling reviews from every major publication in the country.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of David Leavitt's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

Critic Reviews:

"Mathematics and its paradoxes provide a deep vein of metaphor that Leavitt uses to superb effect, demonstrating how the most meaningful relationships can defy both logic and imagination." (The New Yorker)

"Ambitious, meaty, extensively researched[a] richly layered, rueful portrait...Leavitt has tapped into marvelous material...stimulating and refreshingly original." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"This novel is brilliant. It is a beautiful and creative work that manages to portray a melange of the literary, historical, romantic and academic, with breathtaking prose and deeply nuanced characters." (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)

Members Reviews:

A unique and completely enjoyable experience

If you could sum up The Indian Clerk in three words, what would they be?

engaging and captivating

What about Graeme Malcoms performance did you like?

Malcolm gives each character a unique voice. He has obvious appreciation for the material.

Any additional comments?

Based on real events, this is a captivating work of fiction. It incorporates real historical figures and fleshes them out with authentic personality. It is unlike anything I've ever read. The story is fascinating and extremely engaging.

Wonderfully evocative retelling

I bought this thinking it would be a more non-fiction presentation, but found instead a truly wonderful work of literature, presenting the daily reality of England before and during WW I. G.H. Hardy is used as the story's narrator, and his own complex and highly period-specific character guides and shapes the tale. The audio narrator does an impeccable job of timing, emphasis and character portrayal. The mathematics, thankfully, is not entirely ignored; it is given a literary spin that is not challenging but remains true to the spirit of mathematics. The portrayal of homosexuality so prevalent in Cambridge circles at the time is thoughtful and emotional, without any of the political correctness that has colored other novels I have read.

mathematics and longing

The narrator of "The Indian Clerk" is a reserved, gay mathematician (G. Hardy, a historical figure) from a middle-class background who, despite belonging to one of the most elite intellectual societies of his day, always feel a bit out-of-place in pre-WWI Cambridge. With a fellow mathematician, he manages to bring an obscure Indian mathematical genius, Ramanujan, to study and work at Cambridge.

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Title: Vanished

Author: Mary McGarry Morris

Narrator: Kimberly Schraf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, 200 miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the kidnapped child - bound together by strange love and desperate need - are trapped in a nomadic existence governed by their constant fear of discovery.

Canny, the little girl, becomes Aubrey's entire existence. But Dotty wants out. She is tired of being saddled with this fearful little man. When she meets Jiggy Huller, a brutal ex-convict, the wheels of Canny's return to her natural parents are wrenched fatally into motion.

Members Reviews:

Disturbing

I've enjoyed two other books by Mary McGarry Morris, so I thought I'd give this one a try. This author writes about damaged people and this generally makes for a disturbing read. I was especially disturbed by this group of characters and although I completed the book, I honestly can't tell you if I liked it. I'm not sure! The Good: the characters are well written and Ms. Schraf reads competently. The Bad: I told you already, the book is disturbing! I'll leave it up to you to decide if you want to give it a listen.

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Title: A Fair Maiden

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Angela Goethals

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Sixteen year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first, his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant, like his name - a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books that he's written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her: Mr. Kidder's life couldn't be more different from Katya's drab working-class existence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing.

But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr. Kidder's new painting isn't the light-hearted endeavor it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it?

Editorial Reviews:

In what at first appears to be a modern-day Lolita, this novel chronicles the summer that 16-year-old Katya Spivak nannies for a wealthy family in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, and her developing friendship with the elderly (and also wealthy) Marcus Kidder. Kidder, a one-time childrens book author and artist, courts the young Katya, convincing her to spend more and more time with him, and eventually model for a portrait (for cash, of course). Katya is particularly vulnerable to his doting overtures, not only because shes a poor girl from South Jersey, but because she was also abandoned by her father at a young age and her mother is a manipulative alcoholic. Still, throughout the novel she wavers under Kidders affections, drawn to his money and power, but unsure of what he really wants. Are his intentions merely those of a lustful, perverted old man, or is it something more? While trying to figure it out, there are plenty of cringe-worthy scenes. If Katya referring to him as an elderly lover with sweet and sour breath doesnt turn your stomach, Kidder forcing her to pose in silky red lingerie just might.

Angela Goethals shines portraying the confused innocence of a girl on the brink of adulthood, as well as easily transforming into the formal, elderly Kidder. Her only misstep in the narration is when she embodies the voice of Katyas mother the white trash Jersey accent takes on more of a North Dakota vibe. Her talent for pacing builds the tension perfectly in the sexually-charged scenes when Katya and Kidder are alone and keep the listener on the hook for the duration of the novel: Kidder and his intentions remain an enigma for 23 chapters, thanks to the air of mystery Goethals is able to maintain.

Critic Reviews:

"Fans of Oates' gothic stylings will not be disappointed...and Katya's belligerent exuberance ("He wants me! Me, me!") gives the prose plenty of punch." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Creepy book. Creepier than usual.

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The book just made me uncomfortable fromthe start. Didn't finish it.

What was most disappointing about Joyce Carol Oatess story?

Too creepy and sexual, much like some of her others. Just creepier.

What didnt you like about Angela Goethalss performance?

It was okay.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from A Fair Maiden?

Everything I read.

Any additional comments?

The Mulhaneys and The Widow's Story are the only decent books she has written, in my humble opinion.

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Title: A Good Fall

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Ha Jin

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Ray Porter, Robertson Dean, Paul Michael Garcia, Anthony Heald, Kate Reading, Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, National Book Award winner Ha Jin gives us a collection of stories that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily struggles - some minute, some grand - faced by these men, women, and children.

A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend's parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more 'American", unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student.

All of Ha Jin's characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, that life in a new country offers. In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories, we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.

Critic Reviews:

"With piercing insight, Jin paints a vast, fascinating portrait of a neighborhood and a people in flux." (Publishers Weekly)

"Jin again captures the smallest details to create uniquely resonating portraits of everyday people....This new work will be welcomed by any reader." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

A different view

I expected stories, but what I got was more interesting, "snapshots" of lives.

None of the stories were complete, nor were they meant to be, they are simply a peek into lives, a short time during the ongoing cycle of life.

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Title: Matrimony

Author: Joshua Henkin

Narrator: Kevin Pariseau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium, Matrimony is a stunning novel of love and friendship, money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It is a richly detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone - to do it when you're young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age.

Critic Reviews:

"Charming.... Henkin keeps you reading with original characters, witty dialogue, and a view that marriage, for all its flaws, is worth the trouble." (People)

Members Reviews:

HO HUM

After being introduced to what initially seemed like interesting characters, I was disappointed by a plot that just plodded on through decades of poorly-paced and awkwardly drawn-out characters and artificially forced relationships. I felt no real connection to any of the characters, although I really "wanted" to be drawn in. The author's style of exposition became quite annoying, with supposedly important characters and "big" events being introduced awkwardly throughout the novel. Finally, I found the narrator's style very intrusive. Instead of reading, he constantly "acted" . . . his cadence was unnatural and showy, his reading overly dramatic and annoying. This is a novel about everyday people, not epic events. His inflections for various characters (Vermont, Japanese, southern) were distracting and unnecessary. Perhaps this book would have been more enjoyable to read than to listen to.

Pretty good

I listened to this as audio book as it was on my TBR shelf for so long that it was the only way to get to it. I loved some of Henkin's phrasing and use of metaphor, but overall, this story had more detail and length than was needed. Or maybe because so much of it was ordinary, it just felt like real life happening without dramatic plot twists. And, I must say there were a number of editorial misses, like the scent of lilacs in November and the characters noting that they heard voices from the street when inside a 17th floor luxury apartment. This errors made me trust the author and the story a little less.

Narrator okay. Differentiated characters with use of accent more than tone, which I found a little distracting.