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  • The Road to Unfreedom

  • Autor: Timothy Snyder
  • Sprecher: Timothy Snyder
  • Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 9 Min.
  • Ungekürztes
  • Gesamt
    5 out of 5 stars 23
  • Sprecher
    4.5 out of 5 stars 21
  • Geschichte
    5 out of 5 stars 21

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Road to Unfreedom, written and read by Timothy Snyder. The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present in the West. And if Moscow's drive to dissolve Western states and values succeeds, this could become our reality, too. In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West.

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • original ideas and investigative journalism but

  • Von Thomas Am hilfreichsten 17.04.2019

original ideas and investigative journalism but

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Geschichte
4 out of 5 stars

Rezensiert am: 17.04.2019

turns into an embarrassing political pamphlet near the end: single causality for complex economic processes, speaking of top x % of population as though they were the same people and not different people at different times, and taking property prices in San Francisco (one of the most expensive cities in the world due to its proximity to Silicon Valley) to exaggerate inequality. Still worth the time

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  • Of Mice and Men

  • Autor: John Steinbeck
  • Sprecher: Clarke Peters
  • Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 37 Min.
  • Ungekürztes
  • Gesamt
    4.5 out of 5 stars 42
  • Sprecher
    4.5 out of 5 stars 36
  • Geschichte
    4.5 out of 5 stars 35

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn’t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss’s daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Meisterleistung

  • Von Roland Am hilfreichsten 27.04.2011

tantalizingly painful

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Geschichte
2 out of 5 stars

Rezensiert am: 24.09.2017

From pretty much the beginning you know that something will go wrong. The author shows you a cliff and then slowly, methodically and thoroughly describes step by step the way to and over it. People, their wickedness displayed, their dreams and hopes dissected and then destroyed. The author definitely doesn't love the characters, they just example to show the phenomenon of human suffering and cruelty. This is *the* difference between this book and The Grapes of Wrath, where the author puts warmth in his characters.

The speaker is absolutely fantastic.

  • Nine Princes in Amber

  • The Chronicles of Amber, Book 1
  • Autor: Roger Zelazny
  • Sprecher: Alessandro Juliani
  • Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 31 Min.
  • Ungekürztes
  • Gesamt
    4.5 out of 5 stars 20
  • Sprecher
    5 out of 5 stars 18
  • Geschichte
    4.5 out of 5 stars 18

Amber is the one real world, of which all others including our own Earth are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne.

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • gripping

  • Von Thomas Am hilfreichsten 16.07.2017

gripping

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Geschichte
5 out of 5 stars

Rezensiert am: 16.07.2017

The story is dynamic, but also very poetic in its language and the speaker is absolutely wonderful.

  • Critical Thinking

  • Proven Strategies to Improve Decision Making Skills, Increase Intuition and Think Smarter
  • Autor: Simon Bradley, Nicole Price
  • Sprecher: Dennis St. John
  • Spieldauer: 2 Std.
  • Ungekürztes
  • Gesamt
    1 out of 5 stars 1
  • Sprecher
    5 out of 5 stars 1
  • Geschichte
    1 out of 5 stars 1

This book is a well-rounded introduction to the principles of critical thinking. The book provides tips and steps that are easy to follow, yet very effective in solving problems of all kinds. This guide is helpful to people of all walks of life. The techniques it provides are useful - cutting across careers, businesses, political and even the social arena. After listening to this book, you will be amazed at the amount of resources you can save just by making critical thinking part of your everyday life.

  • 1 out of 5 stars
  • why do they write if they have nothing to say?

  • Von Thomas Am hilfreichsten 18.06.2017

why do they write if they have nothing to say?

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1 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Rezensiert am: 18.06.2017

Very boring with lots of wikipedia-style facts to make book look longer. I gave up after 30 minutes.

  • The Unreal and the Real

  • Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Volume One: Where on Earth
  • Autor: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sprecher: Tandy Cronyn
  • Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 44 Min.
  • Ungekürztes
  • Gesamt
    3 out of 5 stars 2
  • Sprecher
    4 out of 5 stars 2
  • Geschichte
    3 out of 5 stars 2

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • very boring

  • Von Thomas Am hilfreichsten 05.03.2017

very boring

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3 out of 5 stars
Sprecher
5 out of 5 stars
Geschichte
2 out of 5 stars

Rezensiert am: 05.03.2017

Le Guin uses a very beautiful language, but not much happens. And if it does, you are neither provoked nor interested. Her sci-fi writings are much better.
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