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Centered
- Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters
- De: Jason Brown, Paul Asay
- Narrado por: Jason Brown
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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Jason Brown had everything in the world. He was the highest-paid center in the game. He lived in luxury. Millions of people saw and admired him every week. Then in 2012, Jason heard a call from God that changed everything. Leaving behind an incredibly successful football career that paid millions, Jason turned toward a life he knew nothing about: farming. It was only the beginning of his journey. Through third-party mismanagement and a run of bad luck, Jason lost most of the money he’d saved from his NFL days.
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The miracles never cease
- De Jeff Hopper en 03-20-21
- Centered
- Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters
- De: Jason Brown, Paul Asay
- Narrado por: Jason Brown
The miracles never cease
Revisado: 03-20-21
Wow, what a story of grounded faith honored by the Lord with repeated miraculous provision! But Jason isn't looking through rosy glasses only; he recognizes God in the tough times, too. In my own ministry, I have helped professional athletes write their testimonies for more than 20 years. I can assure you that I have never encountered a story quite like this one.
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.
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A story of sadness and serenity
- De Anton en 10-13-12
- Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
Great audio reading
Revisado: 02-02-21
You'll appreciate this story far more if you have an academic background, having spent time as a college student, and especially as a graduate student, and especially as an English major--and yet all the more, I'd imagine, if you have taught in a university setting. I qualify in only one regard here, really, though I did teach high school English classes, and still I found the story engaging if lacking in transcendent consideration.
What struck me most was the superb casting and reading by Robin Field. The vocal quality fit the setting and main character beautifully.
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- De: James McBride
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.
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Masterpiece
- De Linda G McDonough en 05-17-20
- Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- De: James McBride
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
Great dialogue
Revisado: 10-17-20
While the characters, setting, and plot are all strong, the dialogue among characters with varied backgrounds and dialects carried this novel for me.
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The Martian
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
- De L. Newman en 01-11-20
- The Martian
- De: Andy Weir
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
Outstanding, but the language?
Revisado: 01-14-20
Fabulous story, which most every review here will tell you. My one surprise was the constancy of F-bombs. I read a ton to my kids during their school years, and this is the kind of book we would have read. But I couldn't have brought myself to cuss like a sailor--and apparently an astronaut--night after night around the dinner table. Call me a prude, maybe, but otherwise this was a great listen.
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- De Jim en 09-11-19
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- De: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell
Typically fun Gladwell, but...
Revisado: 09-29-19
This is the kind of Gladwell we've come to appreciate, with a woven set of explorations leading to lively and applicable conclusions (though, notably, Gladwell has plenty who criticize his methodologies--as if theirs are flawless). The trouble with this book is that the presentations of the Jerry Sandusky and Larry Nassar sections contain the nitty-grittiest details. Yes, those who want it can find this information in public source material, but I'm not sure Gladwell's audience (in general, and me specifically) are comfortable with this or want this. The points could have been made with more discreet references to these matters. I ended up offering this book in synopsis form to my wife each night at the dinner table, leaving out the parts she and I knew she didn't want to hear (she's no prude, just a children's hospital nurse who sees enough crud already). On the Audible side, the recording is in the style of a podcast, with the quoted sections featuring the interviewees' voices as recorded by Gladwell as he was researching the book. It keeps your attention.
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- De: Todd Zwillich
- Narrado por: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
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Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
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Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
- De Judah Family en 07-05-19
- The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- De: Todd Zwillich
- Narrado por: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Lively reading of a lively story
Revisado: 07-12-19
This story is timely for the anniversary of the moon landing, features actual recordings from the time of the accounts, as well as interviews by the author of principals and historians, and is a truly enjoyable listen, even if it plays more like an extended podcast than a book.
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Dreyer's English
- An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
- De: Benjamin Dreyer
- Narrado por: Benjamin Dreyer, Alison Fraser
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by authors and editors alike - not to mention his followers on social media - for deconstructing the English language with playful erudition. Now, he distills everything he has learned from the myriad books he has copyedited and overseen into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best prose foot forward.
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You'll be horrified at a lifetime of usage errors.
- De RTaylor en 05-16-19
- Dreyer's English
- An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
- De: Benjamin Dreyer
- Narrado por: Benjamin Dreyer, Alison Fraser
Wonderfully read
Revisado: 06-01-19
As a style manual, this would be better consumed in print. However, the audio book gives us the full benefit of Dreyer's voice, in both the literal and the literary sense, the latter of which is so much a part of the excellence (and enjoyment) of this writing. (Special note: I am certain the writer himself would groan over Audible's request that we rate the "story" of this book.)
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
- Essays
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Marilynne Robinson
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.
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Great material, hard to process
- De Jeff Hopper en 08-24-18
- When I Was a Child I Read Books
- Essays
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Marilynne Robinson
Great material, hard to process
Revisado: 08-24-18
The mistake was mine. The material from the author is extremely exceptional and causes one to think deeply, which makes it hard to keep up with in an audio version as opposed to reading it on the page and having time to think and process what has been said. All the same the author's defense of religion in the face of the supposed advances of science is strong.
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Everybody, Always
- Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
- De: Bob Goff
- Narrado por: Bob Goff
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to Love Does, Bob Goff takes listeners on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. This liberated existence we all long for is as simple to say as it is difficult to do: We are called to love everybody, always – even when it’s really difficult.
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Did not realize this was a christian book
- De Amazon Customer en 04-03-19
- Everybody, Always
- Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
- De: Bob Goff
- Narrado por: Bob Goff
Still Bob
Revisado: 05-21-18
Bob Goff is a consummate observer of those who live the love of Jesus, and thus he has illustrative experiences to tell us about as God works through these acts of love--some big but most just consistent, intentional, joyful, and creative. It's not theologically deep, but it's biblically deferential and relevant. I think this is the way God wants it!
Bob reads his own work on the Audible version. His reading is clean and his voice is authentic, familiar, and friendly. Unfortunately, like many non-professional readers, his pacing is rushed, with need for better spacing (pausing) between sentences at times. (This could even have been engineered.) It's noticeable but not terribly distracting.
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