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Título: Kalashnikov

Autor: Alberto Vázquez -Figueroa

Narrador: Juan Manuel Martínez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-15-10

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 46 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Historical

Resumen del editor:

Kalashnikov comienza con un llamamiento del Parlamento Europeo para que se capture al mayor criminal de guerra que existe, Joseph Kony, de quien se sabe que, además de asesinar, violar y esclavizar a miles de niños, los emplea como soldados de su ejército.

A la vista de la impotencia de las instituciones, un pequeño grupo de eurodiputados decide contravenir las leyes que han jurado defender. Tras un ataque que los hombres de Kony efectuaron a los yacimientos de coltan del Congo, y que costó la vida a seiscientos inocentes, el grupo de eurodiputados resuelve acabar con él y con quienes, a cambio de coltan, les proporcionan los fusiles de asalto AK-47 Kalashnikov que suelen utilizar sus tropas. Para ello, ofrecen a un cazador de elefantes a quien se conoce por el apodo de Balanegra diez millones de euros por la cabeza de Joseph Kony. Adrián Balanegra y su guía, Gazá Magalé, se enfrentarán a la aventura más arriesgada de sus vidas: encontrar y abatir a Joseph Kony en una selva pantanosa del tamaño de media Europa, e intentar regresar con vida.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Recomiendo

Perdona mi Castellano pues soy Portugués, todavía gustaría de comentar este libro que devoré rápidamente. Mi gusta de este género de libros que mesclan factos reales con entretenimiento. Desconocía el Cotan y los problemas de su extracción y fue una buena manera de me actualizar. El libro también es bastante entretenido, mi gusta las conversaciones entre Adrián Balanegra y su guía, Gazá Magalé.

Muy interesante y actual

Would you consider the audio edition of Kalashnikov to be better than the print version?

No it's not because i speak spanish from south america (from Rio de la Plata, that's mean Uruguay and Argentina) and the book it's only in spanish from spain accent, that's makes me feel a little weird.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Of course because i choose this book by reading the plot.

Did Juan Manuel Martínez do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Beside the spanish accent i think he does.

Who was the most memorable character of Kalashnikov and why?

Kono because it's his real name.

Any additional comments?

a nice experience!

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Title: House of Meetings

Author: Martin Amis

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic.

House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance: two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a 19-year-old Jewess, in Moscow, which is poised for massacre in the gap between the war and the death of Stalin. Both brothers are arrested, and their rivalry slowly complicates itself over a decade in the slave camp above the Arctic Circle.

Critic Reviews:

Vivid and scarifying.... The book gnaws at ones memory. Amis tries to imagine history with the intimacy and specificity that the greatest historical novelists, including Tolstoy, have always presumed to seek for it. (The Washington Post Book World)

"A[n] unrelenting and deeply affecting performance: A bullet train of a novel that barrels deep into the heart of darkness that was the Soviet gulag and takes the reader along on an unnerving journey into one of historys most harrowing chapters. (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Martin Amis at the height of his powers; wonderous

Martin Amis at the height of his powers, pounding wonderous patterns depicting love and familial solidarity in amongst the weave of wholesale loss, despair and suffering in Stalin's post-war forced labor camps. A father's memoir written for a beloved daughter, where the truth is laid bare, revealing the darkest elements of a quote dark life in amongst heartfelt appreciation, and the bonds of love.

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Title: Wagons West Oregon!

Subtitle: Wagons West, Book 4

Author: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

They are the first wagon train to cross the American continent - and forge the Oregon Trail. Five-hundred courageous men, women and children, led by mountain man Whip Holt, they have survived the Rocky Mountain winter, fierce native attacks, and countless other hardships. Now, on the last leg of their journey, they face their greatest challenge yet. Three mighty nations have sent explorers to stake their claims - the English army, Russian agents, and American pioneers - but only one can win.

Devoted to the dream of a new home, Whip Holt finds himself divided by two women: his wife, who is courted by both the English and the Russians, and Cathy van Ayl Blake, who is married to an American commander. Together, these would-be settlers must fight for what they believe in, or die for what they love - in the name of freedom, justice, and destiny. This is their story - the birth of America....

Members Reviews:

I am reading the entire series. Never thought these ...

I am reading the entire series. Never thought these books were my kind of reading but my brother got me started and I can'r read them fast enough. Fiction but based on truth and ever so much true history included. I noted that there was some violence. The only violence is with the wagon trains being attacked and other wars or riots Even though each book is dealing with the settlement of that state the main characters play and important part in each. You get to know them all and feel you are part of their extended families.

If came in fine condition.

Thank you! If came in fine condition.

Good read

Just what my husband wanted.

Five Stars

Entertainment

Wagon's West series

I have read this series many times before and was so glad the new printing came out. Its a great series and follows events that actually happened in our history very closely although the storyline is fiction. I would recommend this series to anyone who likes to read and wants to learn of the hardships and stamina of our ancestors who ventured out across this beautiful country of ours to find the wide open spaces of the west!

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Title: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Author: David Mitchell

Narrator: Jonathan Aris, Paula Wilcox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-10

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas.

Set in Japan in 1799, a young Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, is about to embark on a strange adventure of duplicity, love, and murder - and all the while the axis of global power is turning.

Members Reviews:

Oh no!

I like historical novels, but I also like reading history books (non fiction). I believe I have quite a good knowledge about history in general and some historical events in particular. It is difficult to write good historical novels (but it is also difficult to write any fiction of quality). There is a specific area of history which is called the history of ideas, where historians study what people (learned people or ordinary people) actually thought and believed in during defined eras of time. As you all well know, we take on new ideas and discard old ideas on a consistent basis, so our generation has a different set of frames of mind than even our parents had. Then think some five or ten generations back - they would beleive in things we are not even close to beleiving. I have one specific demand on writers of historical fiction: I want them to let their protagonists live in the frame of mind of their time. Very few writers of historical fiction do that. Instead they let their protagonists think like 21st century people. I think they fail in that aspect simply because they have not researched the ideas of the time in which they set their story. Precisely this error is made by this author. He sets the story in Japan some 200 years ago, with Japanese and Dutch people in his story. It is evident he has neither studied calvinistic thought (which would be the frame of mind for the Dutch at the time), nor has he read up on Shintu thoughts (which would prevail in the thinking of the Japanese at the time). Instead the Dutch think like hash-smoking youths in today's Amsterdam and the Japanese think like Toyota just-in-time manufacturing engineers. This makes the whole thing quite comical, but that is unintentional on the part of the author. I would not recommend this book for any other aspect either; it is not even interesting or suspenseful.

Enjoyed this immensely

This story does a great job of conveying the historical context of 18th century colonial life, I'm looking forward to reading up on where the history finishes and the fiction begins.

Stunning

Masterfully written, beautiful, adventurous, intelligent! I highly recommend it for those who love intelligent historic fiction. This was a pleasure to listen to.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

What a marvellous tale - beautifully written and beautifully read. I was 'transported' in my mind to historical Japan and absolutely hooked throughout, waiting to see whether or not Jacob De Zoet would eventually succeed against all the odds being united with the Japanese lady he fell for early in the story. I have been listening to Audible books for well over a year and this is the best book yet - as a literary work and as compulsive listening - by far. I was so pleased to spend about 5 hours driving by myself so I could listen to the third and final part uninterrupted! Oh for more by this amazing author.

1000 Autumns is a 1001 Delights

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed this audio novel.

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Title: A Walk on the Wild Side

Author: Nelson Algren

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since."

Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."

Critic Reviews:

"The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind." (Nelson Algren)

"Deserves to be read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo's Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels....It's not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It's that Algren is where they come from." (Rolling Stone)

"The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven." (New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Evcellent Story

If you could sum up A Walk on the Wild Side in three words, what would they be?

Interesting Compelling Authentic. Very little resemblance to the film with Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey and Anne Baxter. Still a great book. Narrator is superb.

What did you like best about this story?

There wasn;t any part of the book that dragged or was boring or used as filler

If you could take any character from A Walk on the Wild Side out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Halle seemed to have the best moral compass.

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Title: Nocturne

Author: Diane Armstrong

Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-09

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of Winter Journey, Mosaic and The Voyage of Their Life - all published in audio by Bolinda.

It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams. As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers. In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistance, then flies bombers for the RAF.

Forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, Elzunia learns that even children must create their own rules to survive. When the Ghetto defies the invaders, and later the entire city of Warsaw rises up, Elzunia finds strength in ways she never imagined. Nocturne is a powerful and inspiring testament to resilience and courage in the face of cruelty and betrayal.

Editorial Reviews:

Nocturne, narrated with refined British class by Deidre Rubenstein, is the poignant war-torn romance, set in Warsaw in 1939, that follows the passionate relationship of Elzunia, a starry-eyed teenager who dreams of an idealized life, and Adam, a brooding young pilot who makes the heroic decision to join the Polish resistance at the onset of war - but at what great personal cost?

This gripping story, whose plot perhaps gives a nod or two to Hemingways For Whom The Bell Tolls, is about the delicate balance between love and passion with duty and honor.

Members Reviews:

The narrator ruined it for me

I read Armstrong's superb novel "Winter Journey. That book made me want to read more by this author. Unfortunately Nocturn did not work for me on two levels The first is the coincidental reading of "The Book of Aron," a novel based on the true story of a heroic priest and life in the Warsaw ghetto.

The two books are so similar in terms of subject manner. And Armstrong's book suffers and comparison, primarily due to the narrator.

Deirdre Rubenstein is a extremely good narrator when she's not making up voices. I know that she was trying to interpret her characters, but every time she did this it just annoyed me tremendously. I found the characterizations alternately shrill, growly, and just so annoying In the way they pulled me out of the story, not deeper into it.

I like this author so much, and actually like Rubenstein's narrative work when she plays it straight. She has a lovely voice, and excellent cadence. She could have read this straight and I would've loved it.

As it is I couldn't finish the book.b

Blech

I can't decide if I like the book or not because the narrator is horrible. The first part of the book is riddled with overwrought, irritating exclamations - where was the director? I have gritted my teeth and suffered through Part 1 as I've already trashed two books recently that the narrator ruined for me. In future, I will make a practice of listening to a sample before I buy - good narration is paramount for a successful listening experience.

Haunting, gritty, romantic...

This book had passages of gritty realism and unbelievable coincidences. The descriptions of the Warsaw ghetto, the freedom fighters, the blood in the streets made me cringe with their realism.

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Title: A Calf for Venus

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: Gareth Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-09

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The young doctor had never been inside the Coffee House - and indeed had no wish to - until he met the frail, shabbily dressed girl on the Newmarket coach. And when he learned she was joining the girls who worked in the serving rooms, he decided it was time to visit the strange, secretive house on the other side of the square.

Members Reviews:

even an old man can beat the gods

I have read a lot of recent romance novels and this one was a nice change of pace. It has a story that kept me listening to the end and, although the title is a dead giveaway if you know anything about sacrifices to the gods, it was extremely well done. It made me remember what it was like to be young and feel everything so intensely. If you like Georgette Heyer, I think you'll like this one.

Pretty Awful

I read several books by Lofts when I was young. I remember few details beyond feeling fairly certain I liked them. So I expected to enjoy her audio books as well. This book, my first pass at a Lofts audio book, must have been new to me. If I had read it before, no longer how many years had passed, I would still have a bad taste in my mouth.

The 2 main characters are idiots, both operating under extreme confusion and naivet??. Neither one was sympathetic. Nor were any of the secondary characters. There was really no plot and what was supposed to pass for the plot - the hero's attempts to remove the heroine from a brothel and save her wasn't plausible, because there was little evidence that the place was a brothel and that she needed saving.

Not a positive experience.

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Title: Give Me Back My Legions!

Subtitle: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 83 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game. He serves in the Roman army, gaining Roman citizenship and an officer's rank, and learning the arts of war and policy as practiced by the Romans. What he learns is essential for the survival of Germany, for he must unite his people against Rome before they become enslaved by the Empire and lose their way of life forever.

An epic battle is brewing, and these two men stand on opposite sides of what will forever be known as the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest---a ferocious, bloody clash that will change the course of history.

Members Reviews:

Correcting a misleading review

I loved this story. Based on history and Turtledove's careful inclusion of all the facts that his research can authenticate, Turtledove produces an outstanding, (and exciting) audio book.

Turtledove is simply too good a writer to be hammered by an illiterate critic.

If you like this genre of history (Roman Legion) listen to this great rendition.

Great All Around

There was one bad review on this book, but i got it anyway cause it was the genera i was looking for, and i could be happier. Great book if you like Roman historical fiction, and its always more entertaining when it is based off a real event.

A good listen

I do have to somewhat agree with one of the previous reviewers that there was repetition, and it did feel at times like the author was "filling the pages". However the story did flow nicely and the narration was incredible and the overall result was that I wanted to keep coming back to hear more. Lets face it this is a great story and Turtledove's take on it is quite plausible. All in all - it was a good listen.

Repetitions, repetitions

I don't beleive I've ever read a book, to the end at least, with so many repitetions. Example: the main character befriends the roman, even though he is their enemy. To remind the reader of this every single time he says a friendly thing to a roman we are told that what he really wanted to say was ... Every single time (or so it feels like ). The battle in the climax of the book, is something you in other book will find after a few chapters. The naration might, in a more entertaining book, seem too much, but here feels like a brave attampt to put some life into the characters. I like stories from ancient rome, especialy if there are set in northern Europe, but unless you have the same inclination, I will advice you to pass.

repetative

the main candidatures walk rather than run nothing smoulders as it should and it repeats,nothing to write home about.

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Title: Shadows on the Hudson, Volume 4

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrator: Theodore Bikel, Julie Harris, John Rubinstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The late Nobelist's masterpiece takes a candid look into the lives of Holocaust survivors during the late 40s. Set in New York City, Shadow on the Hudson, Volume 4, the fourth in a four volume audiobook series, draws us into the intertwined lives of circle prosperous Jewish refugees. At the center is Boris Makaver, a pious and wealthy businessman. His greatest trial is his daughter, Anna. Unhappy in her current marriage, she plans to escape with Hertz Grien, a man torn between ascetic yearnings and romantic entanglements. From Makaver's gloomy upper West Side apartment to the pastel resorts of Miami-amid family quarrels, zealous religious debates, crooked seances, and a myriad of affairs and marriages-Singer weaves a rich tapestry of American Jewry. Despite the characters' fervent and often ironic attempts to decipher life's enigmas, their questions remain, for the most part, unanswered. This darkest of Singer's tragicomic novels was originally serialized in the Yiddish language publication, Forward, in the fifties. Now, finally, in its first English translation, it is revealed to be one of his major works.

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©1998 Isaac Bashevis Singer; (P)2009 Phoenix

Members Reviews:

excellent!

Very quick delivery, excellent!

Five Stars

good read

Life is hell and then you die

It's true that that the characters exist for the purpose of delivering long philosophical rants decrying the

their existence along with everyone else they know. Of course this story takes place in the shadow of the

holocaust which effects their every moment of their existence. It was understandably impossible for them

to form relationships, or experience happiness based on the unspeakable trauma they experienced.

They escaped the holocaust but the ghosts but they were driven by the ghosts of the past.

This was a very heavy book and I felt relief when it was over. Would not recommend if

you have a history of depression.

A Brilliant Work

This is a long, deep novel that deals with some of the fundamental problems of human existence. More than any other writer, Singer (at least in this book) reminds me of Dostoyevsky, whose characters were constantly in existentialist turmoil over questions such as good vs. evil and whether or not there is a God (and if there is, is He good, evil or indifferent?) Of course, while Dostoyevsky was a Christian, all of the characters in Shadows on the Hudson are Jewish holocaust survivors who have recently emigrated to New York from Europe shortly after World War ll. This is something that none of them can forget, even for a day, as many barely escaped while their loved ones perished. Beyond this confrontation with evil and death, the novel is largely about the philosophical war between religious orthodoxy and hedonistic modern life. Contemporary readers who do not come from a strongly religious background may have some difficulty appreciating this dilemma. The mass culture that Singer found vulgar and amoral in the 50s has now all but taken over in America, leaving many people no frame of reference for any other type of existence. While there is much philosophizing, Singer succeeds in creating flesh and blood characters whose moral anguish is not simply abstract, but put to the test in daily life. The character we spend the most time with is Hertz Grein, a middle-aged man whose religious yearnings are in stark contrast to his lifestyle.

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Title: The Answer

Subtitle: A Fable For Our Times

Author: Philip Wylie

Narrator: Joel Grey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Out of the confusion and dismay provoked by the discovery of these ethereal messengers comes a message both simple and profound. Originally published in 1955, this enchanting, sometimes chilling novella tackles a question that has plagued human since civilization began: How can we live together in peace?

Members Reviews:

pretty sloppy editing as far as spelling goes

I purchased the Kindle version....pretty sloppy editing as far as spelling goes.It's like they used spell check and then didn't read the passage to determine which word should be used.

A wonderful and uplifting reading experience

A wonderful and uplifting reading experience....read it for the third time today and am buying add'l copies for my friends.....read it and be prepared

to consider things beyond the knowledge of science and technology.

Five Stars

Excellent book, well written, message needed today. This is my third copy.

Short, but good

Are angels real?

I see this could be expanded and hope it will be the start of a series.

Movie??