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Title: Max Factor

Subtitle: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World

Author: Fred E. Basten

Narrator: Samantha Worthen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Nice women never wore makeup. Even the word was taboo in polite societyuntil Max Factor entered the scene. Born in Poland in 1877, Factor worked as a beautician for the Russian royal family, the Romanovs. In 1904, he fled to America, where he opened a cosmetics store in Los Angeles. Creating makeup originally for silent films, then the talkies, and, ultimately, color motion pictures, Factor designed looks for Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, and countless other beauties of the day. Soon women everywhere wanted to look like their favorite glamorous stars, and Factor was there to help, bringing his innovative cosmetics to the general public.

He revolutionized the world of beauty by producing many firsts: false eyelashes, lip gloss, foundation, eye shadow, the eyebrow pencil, concealer, wand-applicator mascara, and water-resistant makeup. A true innovator, he also introduced the concept of color harmony and the celebrity-endorsed cosmetics advertising that forms the glamorous backbone of the modern industry. Max Factor was the father of modern makeup. This is his extraordinary story.

Editorial Reviews:

Fred Basten, many of whose books have featured Hollywood and the entertainment industry, explores the biography of the "father of modern makeup". Born in Poland, Max Factor worked on first Russian and then Hollywood royalty. With the friendliness and openness of a favorite cosmetician, Samantha Worthen reads the story of a cosmetics innovator who created the looks of Romanov women as well as stars such as Pola Negri, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, and Bette Davis. Additionally, he proved himself a great salesman and only-in-America entrepreneur by bringing that glamour to the women of Main Street.

Critic Reviews:

Fascinating . . . you wont be able to put it down. (Glamour)

Members Reviews:

Interesting, yet forgettable in all the good ways

What did you like best about this story?

Very interesting story about a very interesting man.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Samantha Worthen?

I would cast almost any human over Samantha Worthen, who sounds like a robot that doesn't understand how a sentence is supposed to be read for it to flow. Strange and unnecessary pauses, almost as if words were recorded independently of each other then strung together to make this recording. While this does improve over each individual chapter, the beginning of the next chapter is just as bad as the last

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Titel: Südtirol: Kriminell-kulinarische Exkursion (Mords-Genuss)

Autor:: Michael Böckler

Erzähler: Martin Umbach, Cordula Senfft, Detlev Kügow

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-10-12

Herausgeber: Komplett Media

Kategorien: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Das Hörbuch präsentiert Ihnen zwischen den kriminellen Episoden die kulinarischen Highlights Südtirols. Sie bekommen eine Einführung in die vielfältigen Weine der Region. Folgen Sie Michael Böckler u.a. nach Meran, Bozen und an die Strada del Vino. Man möchte gleich losfahren!

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Titel: Venedig und Veneto: Kriminell-kulinarische Exkursion (Mords-Genuss)

Autor:: Michael Böckler

Erzähler: Martin Umbach, Cordula Senfft, Detlev Kügow

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 16 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-10-12

Herausgeber: Komplett Media

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

In Michael Böcklers Edition "Mords-Genuss" gibt es im Wechsel mörderische Kurzgeschichten und unterhaltsame Informationen zu den touristischen Highlights sowie zur Ess- und Trinkkultur: Der Autor entführt Sie nach Venedig, der unvergleichlichen Lagunenstadt, in der u.a. das Carpaccio und der Bellini erfunden wurde - und in einem Kurzkrimi ein Tiramisu zu einem delikaten Mord inspiriert. Begleiten Sie Michael Böckler von Venedig auf das Festland. Das Veneto reicht über Treviso, Padua, Vicenza und Verona bis zum Ostufer des Gardasees. Zwischen Mord- und Totschlag werden Sie mit der vielfältigen Küche Venetiens vertraut und lernen die Weine der Region kennen. Sie können sich schon mal einen Prosecco kalt stellen.

©2012 Komplett Media GmbH (P)2012 Komplett Media GmbH

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Title: 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antartica

Author: Chris Turney

Narrator: James Millar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-12

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

1912 was an incredible year, marking the height of the Heroic Age of Exploration. Curiosity about Antarctica was at fever pitch, and between 1910 and 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the greatest race of the era, to travel beyond the edges of the known world and conquer this last great frontier.

Pitted against one another were Captain Robert Falcon Scott for Britain, Roald Amundsen for Norway, Sir Douglas Mawson for Australasia, Wilhelm Filchner for Germany, and Nobu Shirase for Japan. "Conquest of the South Pole!" trumpeted the world's newspapers in March 1912. Amundsen had won. But behind all the headlines, there was a much bigger story. The exploits of these larger-than-life explorers, often narrated in their own words, thrilled and enthralled the world; the limits of our planet were pushed all the way to the South Pole and the door to Antarctica flung wide open.

Drawing on his own polar experiences, Chris Turney reveals why 1912 witnessed the dawn of a new age in our understanding of the natural world. The tales of endurance, self-sacrifice, and technological innovation that marked 1912 laid the foundation for modern scientific exploration and have continued to inspire future generations.

1912 is an awe-inspiring journey - part nail-biting adventure, part scientific history - through an ancient and fascinating land.

Includes a PDF of photographs from these Antarctic expeditions.

Members Reviews:

More than just Scott and Amundsen

Chris Turney and his team are getting a lot of undeserved criticism for their "eco-tourism" trip to Mawson's Huts last December. This book was published before then and I was in the middle of reading it when the news of the stranding of the Akademik Shokalskiy hit the intertubes. There are determined "skeptics" who will not admit that any sort of Antarctic research is justified, but for people of reasonably open mind, troubled by the stranding of the Shokalskiy, this book just might help you understand that such research is valuable and that Turney's trip to Mawson's huts was entirely reasonable.

Every school kid knows, or at least should know something of the Amundsen/Scott race to the pole. But few children, or adults know of the Australian and Japanese expeditions that were unfolding at the same time. Three of the four expeditions were serious scientific efforts that produced a large volume of valuable data. The fourth was a sporting venture, revered for it's success, but it produced less science than any of the other expeditions.

Consequently, I find it a bit curious that modern internet geniuses censure Turney's truly scientific "tourist trip" to the Antarctic yet celebrate Amundsen's trek to the pole.

Turney is, in fact a scientist and historian.

Amundsen, smart and winter savvy, nevertheless, really was a tourist.

Henry Kissinger would give this 5 stars

Excellent book for those with an interest primarily in Antarctic exploration from a geopolitical perspective. Turner did his research from the earliest stages of exploration (during the European "age of discovery") to the present. Though the predominant consideration throughout was the goals and motives, claims and counterclaims, of nations vis a vis other nations, the human characters are not slighted.

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Título: Diario de invierno [Winter Journal]

Autor: Paul Auster

Narrador: Albert Cortés

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-29-12

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 2.5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Resumen del editor:

Auster vuelve la mirada sobre sí mismo y parte de la llegada de las primeras señales de la vejez para rememorar episodios de su vida. Y así, se suceden las historias: un accidente infantil mientras jugaba al béisbol, el descubrimiento del sexo, las masturbaciones adolescentes y la primera experiencia sexual con una prostituta, la rememoración de sus padres, un accidente de coche en el que su mujer resulta herida, una presentación en Arles acompañado por su admirado Jean-Louis Trintignant, la estancia en París, una larga lista comentada de las 21 habitaciones en las que ha vivido a lo largo de su vida hasta llegar a su actual residencia en Park Slope, sus ataques de pánico, los viajes, los paseos, la presencia de la nieve, el paso y la herida del tiempo.... En definitiva, un magistral autorretrato.

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Title: Whatever Happens Happens

Author: Zachary Kyle Elmblad

Narrator: Zach Elmblad

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-12

Publisher: The New Scum Productions

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

What do we have to say for ourselves in this third Millenium of the common era? Zach graduates from high school, finds the real world quite captivating, travels to Egypt, and comes back to find the world around him much more interesting than before. With his faithful sidekick, Stan, Zach ventures down the rabbit hole of drugs, alcohol, fast food, fast living, and social experimentation culminating in the tragic death of Stanley Slavin following a sordid love parallelogram that tore the worlds of many people apart.

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Title: Chopin and Beyond

Subtitle: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal

Author: Byron Janis

Narrator: Darren Dunstan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-12

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the "other world" transformed his life and career.

By any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career. His discovery of two long-lost Chopin scores made headlines around the world, and he has been honored many times for his breathtaking performances of some of the most exciting and challenging works in the standard classical piano repertoire. As he retraces this remarkable journey in Chopin and Beyond, he shares something even more extraordinary: the other-worldly experiences that have shaped his life and music in surprising and profound ways.

Like the best music, Chopin and Beyond will open your mind to explore the wonder and possibility of a different world.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating From Beginning To End

Any additional comments?

Well read and very interesting listen. My two favorite subjects, music and the other world meant that my attention was caught from beginning to end. Its funny how musicians tend to be more open to forces and unusual happenings than the average person on the street, maybe that is why they make good musicians.... Anyway, I hadn't heard of Byron Janis but something drew me to the audio book and I really enjoyed it. Highly recommended.

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Título: La casa donde se esconde el sol [The House of the Setting Sun]

Autor: Kike Del Olmo

Narrador: Antonio Abenójar

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-25-12

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Resumen del editor:

La apasionante aventura que tuvieron que vivir los Romaníes desde que salen de la India, todavía divididos en tribus, hasta que se acaban uniendo entre ellos formando lo que sería después el pueblo Rom, cautivó a Kike del Olmo de tal manera que no tuvo más remedio que echarse a la carretera en busca de más pistas. En un viejo pub de Calcuta se fragua el plan, unir la India y España por tierra en un destartalado Land Rover, que se convertiría casualmente en transporte y albergue. Un viaje a la antigua donde los protagonistas pasan de situaciones límite como tener que comer escoltados por la policía en un pueblo cerca de la frontera entre Pakistán y Afganistán, a momentos extraordinarios donde camioneros iraníes se confabulan para protegerlos de cualquier ataque nocturno en una de las fronteras más desangeladas del planeta.

Este es un viaje lleno de personajes extraordinarios, situaciones al límite y no pocos momentos hilarantes con el fin de encontrar diferencias y similitudes entre Romaníes de toda Europa partiendo de sus verdaderos orígenes; las tribus del Norte de la India.

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Opiniones de los miembros:

Iberian narration proved challenging

I mention that as most readers of this site would be used to Western Hemisphere accents. If I paid very strict attention, I was able to follow the story, but any distraction and I had to stop and come back to the book.

As far as the storyline itself, the work had the feel of a series of podcasts. The author makes friends with local Roma in each location, explaining the situation and what's being done to improve their lot (if anything).

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Title: The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat

Subtitle: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance

Author: Thomas McNamee

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-12

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans-a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus "Continental" cuisine. Authentic French, Italian, and Chinese foods were virtually unknown. There was no such thing as food criticism at the time, and no such thing as a restaurant critic. Cooking at home wasn't thought of as a source of pleasure. Guests didn't chat around the kitchen. Professional equipment and cookware were used only in restaurants. One man changed all that.

From the best-selling author of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse comes the first biography of the passionate gastronome and troubled genius who became the most powerful force in the history of American food - the founding father of the American food revolution.

From his first day in 1957 as the food editor of The New York Times, Craig Claiborne was going to take his readers where they had never been before. Claiborne extolled the pleasures of exotic cuisines from all around the world, and with his inspiration, restaurants of every ethnicity blossomed. So many things we take for granted now were introduced to us by Claiborne: crème fraîche, arugula, balsamic vinegar, the Cuisinart, chef's knives, even the salad spinner.

He would give Julia Child her first major book review. He brought Paul Bocuse, the Troisgros brothers, Paul Prudhomme, and Jacques Pépin to national acclaim. His $4,000 dinner for two in Paris was a front-page story in the Times and scandalized the world. And while he defended the true French nouvelle cuisine against bastardization, he also reveled in a well-made stew or a good hot dog. He made home cooks into stars: Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Diana Kennedy, and many others. And Claiborne made dinner an event - whether dining out, delighting your friends, or simply cooking for your family. His own dinner parties were legendary.

Claiborne was the perfect Mississippi gentleman, but his inner life was one of conflict and self-doubt. Constrained by his position to mask his sexuality, he was imprisoned in solitude, never able to find a stable and lasting love. Through Thomas McNamee's painstaking research and eloquent storytelling, The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat unfolds a history that is largely unknown and also tells the full, deep story of a great man who until now has never been truly known at all.

Critic Reviews:

"McNamee deftly explores the glittering public life and far-reaching contributions Claiborne made to America's food culture, as well as his troubled personal life. A highly readable, well-researched narrative chronicling America's boring culinary past and the one man who altered its course forever." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Not Much Story Once Claiborne Achieves Success

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The narrator.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The build of Craig Claiborne finding his way in life, coming up with a dream, and achieving it. Once he has it, though, the momentum is lost, Claiborne becomes a mostly still functional alcoholic, and it catches up with him. End of story. Not much there. No great payoff or life lessons learned.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Dick Hill?

Anyone.

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Title: The Story of the Streets

Author: Mike Skinner

Narrator: Mike Skinner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-12

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

"This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously that's something I should be fairly well qualified to know about, and I'm going to be as honest as the publisher's lawyers will allow."

With the 2001 release of The Streets' debut single "Has It Come to This?" the landscape of British popular music changed forever. No longer did home-grown rappers have to anxiously defer to transatlantic influences. Mike Skinner's witty, self-deprecating sagas of late-night kebab shops and skunk-fuelled Playstation sessions showed how much you could achieve simply by speaking in your own voice.

In this thoroughly modern memoir, the man the Guardian once dubbed "half Dostoevsky half Samuel Pepys" tells a freewheeling, funny and fearlessly honest tale of Birmingham and London, ecstasy and epilepsy, Twitter-fear and Spectrum joysticks, spread betting and growing up. He writes of his musical inspirations, role models and rivals, the craft of song writing, and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey of The Streets.

Members Reviews:

Amazing audiobook

Definitely a great audio book in which Skinner speaks of his troubles and experiences throughout The Streets.

A hard way to make an easy living

No one sounds like Mike Skinner, and as his famous timbre begins, you do find yourself thinking, a 3 minute song is fine, but will I be able to stand a whole books worth of his monotone? And then you listen to what he's saying and you know that no-one else could read it. Every sentence about his music reminds you of the music itself, as his vocals *are* the streets. His words and the way he says them, that's what made me a fan in the first place.

This is a brilliant insight into the UK music business, from a man who is intelligent, articulate, humble when necessary, interesting, and above all, incredibly normal, with a brilliant, objective view on life, served with a slice of acerbic wit.

The Story of the Streets

Brutally honest, compelling and refreshingly free from b******t.

It's been a privilege to hear the story behind the music that has meant so much to me over the years from the man himself. Far from being a fly-by-night 'geezer', Mike Skinner is a grafter, a craftsman and an unashamed control freak.

Skinner's reading is, errrm, uncomfortable. It sounds like reading his book aloud is the last thing in the world he wants to be doing. But I get the impression he feels letting someone else narrate it instead would be an even worse option. I agree.

If you're a fan of The Streets I can't see how you would fail to get more form the music after listening to the story.

Recommended.

Entertaining story...Skinners voice not so...

If you can overcome Skinners voice then it's a great story. I got to the end but it was a struggle.

Mike Skinner Is possibly the most boring man to listen to in the history of the world!

Mike Skinner Is possibly the most boring man to listen to in the history of the world!