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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 著者: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- ナレーター: Simon Slater
- 再生時間: 7 時間 59 分
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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A compass to cruise the uncertain world
- 投稿者: "1az" 日付: 2020/08/21
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The Testaments
- The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Ann Dowd, 、その他
- 再生時間: 13 時間 18 分
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More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
- 著者: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- ナレーター: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- 再生時間: 5 時間 53 分
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In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned argument on her blog about her deep-seated frustration with the way discussions of race and racism in Britain were constantly being shut down by those who weren't affected by it. She gave the post the title 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'. Her sharp, fiercely intelligent words hit a nerve, and the post went viral, spawning a huge number of comments from people desperate to speak up about their own similar experiences.
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Informative introduction into racism in Britain
- 投稿者: 村田裕香 日付: 2020/07/12
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Normal People
- A Novel
- 著者: Sally Rooney
- ナレーター: Aoife McMahon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 34 分
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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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We Should All Be Feminists
- 著者: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ナレーター: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 再生時間: 45 分
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'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently....' What does feminism mean today? In this personal, eloquently argued essay - adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers listeners a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 著者: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- ナレーター: Simon Slater
- 再生時間: 7 時間 59 分
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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A compass to cruise the uncertain world
- 投稿者: "1az" 日付: 2020/08/21
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The Testaments
- The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Ann Dowd, 、その他
- 再生時間: 13 時間 18 分
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More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
- 著者: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- ナレーター: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- 再生時間: 5 時間 53 分
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In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned argument on her blog about her deep-seated frustration with the way discussions of race and racism in Britain were constantly being shut down by those who weren't affected by it. She gave the post the title 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'. Her sharp, fiercely intelligent words hit a nerve, and the post went viral, spawning a huge number of comments from people desperate to speak up about their own similar experiences.
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Informative introduction into racism in Britain
- 投稿者: 村田裕香 日付: 2020/07/12
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Normal People
- A Novel
- 著者: Sally Rooney
- ナレーター: Aoife McMahon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 34 分
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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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We Should All Be Feminists
- 著者: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ナレーター: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 再生時間: 45 分
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'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently....' What does feminism mean today? In this personal, eloquently argued essay - adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers listeners a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- 著者: Malcolm Gladwell
- ナレーター: Malcolm Gladwell
- 再生時間: 8 時間 42 分
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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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Becoming
- 著者: Michelle Obama
- ナレーター: Michelle Obama
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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語り口からにじみ出る、手本とすべき人柄。
- 投稿者: Kindleのお客様 日付: 2019/02/07
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- ナレーター: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- 再生時間: 9 時間 8 分
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- 著者: Amor Towles
- ナレーター: Nicholas Guy Smith
- 再生時間: 17 時間 52 分
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A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.
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with time it grows on you
- 投稿者: 村田裕香 日付: 2020/06/16
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Caste
- The Lies That Divide Us
- 著者: Isabel Wilkerson
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 14 時間 26 分
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Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste.
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The Shadow King
- 著者: Maaza Mengiste
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 16 時間 11 分
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Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
- A Novel
- 著者: Christy Lefteri
- ナレーター: Art Malik
- 再生時間: 8 時間 43 分
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Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight.
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ザリガニの鳴くところ
- 著者: ディーリア オーエンズ, 友廣 純
- ナレーター: 池澤 春菜
- 再生時間: 16 時間 52 分
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ノース・カロライナ州の湿地で男の死体が発見された。人々は「湿地の少女」に疑いの目を向ける。6歳で家族に見捨てられたときから、カイアは湿地の小屋でたったひとり生きなければならなかった。
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なんと素晴らしい作品でしょう!
- 投稿者: かねちゃん 日付: 2020/05/20
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- 著者: Trevor Noah
- ナレーター: Trevor Noah
- 再生時間: 8 時間 44 分
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The compelling, inspiring (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life.
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最高
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/02/07
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Between the World and Me
- 著者: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- ナレーター: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 再生時間: 3 時間 35 分
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Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race”, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of Black women and men - bodies exploited through slavery and segregation and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.
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Citizen
- An American Lyric
- 著者: Claudia Rankine
- ナレーター: Allyson Johnson
- 再生時間: 1 時間 37 分
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Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV - everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive.
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
- 著者: Jia Tolentino
- ナレーター: Jia Tolentino
- 再生時間: 9 時間 45 分
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We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.
批評家のレビュー
"The actress Anna-Maria Nabirye projects the characters superbly: she has a full, low timbre and a powerful directness." (The Times)
"Masterful...A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain." (Elle)
"Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that'll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl...[It] unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond." (Stylist)
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Brought to you by Penguin.
Winner of The Booker Prize 2019
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
The Sunday Times best seller
This is Britain as you've never heard it.
This is Britain as it has never been told.
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope....
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- Ana-Maria Gavrila
- 2019/10/17
A thing of beauty...
Not a review, only to say that I definitely didn’t expect it to be as remarkable.
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- Polly
- 2020/06/12
'Girl, Woman, Other' Underwhelming
Girl, Woman, Other, is best read first, to see the arrangement of the text on the page, and to understand and appreciate the experimental prose/poetic style - as composed by Bernardine Evaristo. Seeing and reading the book may add the layer of literary depth unseen in the Audio edition. The Audio is devoid of poetic rhythms, and the Reading does not reflect/convey experimental written form. The Audio version exposes formulaic writing patterns and a lack of character development. Read the book first?
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- Wendy
- 2019/11/19
Great novel - flaws in narration.
Great characters and story, but let down a bit by the narrator who, although she has a good quality voice, often pauses where she shouldn't, or doesn't pause where she should, with incorrect emphasis. Many words are mispronounced, which indicates that the narrator is not familiar with the word itself. I agree with another reviewer who says the narrator needed someone in the recording sessions to direct her performance, spot the mistakes and fix them. Surely every audiobook performance is supervised by someone other than a sound engineer? I found myself listening out for the next mistake, and the next one, But I still enjoyed the story.
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- Not
- 2020/12/24
I couldn't put it down
Really enjoyed this book. I couldn't put it down. very different! Definitely enlightened on black,lesbian,Bi world we live in. highly recommend this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/11/03
I could follow the Narrator. Unfortunately.
I couldn't follow the narrator, so unfortunately I have missed the content of the book. I did read this in another review, but unfortunately the Narrator needs more practice to articulate what she is reading. She has an appropriate voice and accents for the content, but lacks sufficient skill, which results in a story you just can't follow.
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- AOC
- 2020/07/03
Complicated Read
Too many characters, too many to remember! Have a pen and paper ready to take notes...
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- Victoria
- 2020/06/01
great perspective, bit catalogue of diversity
the narrator was great, clear and easy to listen to. characters were all unique and well written. a very enjoyable read, but it felt at times a bit like a catalogue of diversity... like the author had a list and must have one each of all the current intersectional feminist issues represented, like a collection of dolls. I'm really grateful for the perspectives, but it felt a bit unnatural because it seemed to be trying to be an anthology of everything black and feminist and lgbti+ in one book. Really good story teller. Really good coverage of the issues at s surface level, but I probably would prefer a deeper dive into their stories. I think this could have been a series, and could have been a bit more realistic at the end about how much people really change when challenged.
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- 匿名
- 2020/04/12
Brilliant
Truly brilliant I really enjoyed it! So much more than I thought.... The performance was also excellent.
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- Sharon
- 2020/03/19
Nothing happens!
So yeah. I thought this would be an interesting read, and it won The Booker. How could I go wrong, right? With one click of a button it seems. The narrator did well but the author should learn what a story is. The premise is a good one and I liked some of the characters but absolutely nothing happens in this book. It is just about ordinary women and their ordinary struggles. I like a plot, I like a beginning middle and a satisfying end. This had nothing.
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- 匿名
- 2020/03/05
Book for the new times and a new world
I would recommend this book to women who want to explore gender identity. It has some good parts and I particularly like the ending and the linking of the stories. Sometimes you don’t know how the stories will link up but I guess that’s the beauty of the book. Sometimes I thought it was very trendy and New Age. But it’s nice to read such a book in some ways to hear how people live and experience life. Very good LGBT Book.
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- Booklover
- 2019/11/21
Good story but distracting narration
The narrator made so many mistakes in pronunciation that it detracted from my enjoyment of the book. Particularly irritating was the fact that there were two characters - Waris and Bibi - whose names she pronounced in two different ways. War-is and Wear-is. Bibby and Beebee.
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- Vinca
- 2019/12/03
A Great Book, but -
This story is lovely, an engaging and interesting account of several women's lives and how they interact with one another. It would have been such an enjoyable listen but for one thing. The narrator's constant mispronunciation of words. I'm not talking about things that are difficult to say, but words in common usage (it's deMONstrably not demonSTRAYably for example). It got to the point where I was counting how many words were wrongly spoken in a given time. Five or six within half an hour is far too many in my opinion, and it was really grating. I had to stop listening. Which was a great shame.
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- S
- 2019/10/21
Too many mistakes
It was jarring each time the narrator made a mistake. She even mispronounced the word “pronunciation”. The actor and drag queen, Divine, was referred to as Diveen. Hopefully, there will be a re-recording of the book as the story was very engaging.
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- Jo
- 2019/12/26
Distracting narration
I found the narration too distracting to get involved in the stories being told. There were so many mispronunciations - did noone listen to this before it was released?
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- EEL
- 2019/08/03
Utterly terrible audio version of a good book
As a book, this is a compelling, diverting, well-crafted and beautiful story of 12 women and their twentieth and twenty-first century lives. The book itself is highly recommended. The audio, however, is not. The actor here mispronounces so many words -- why did the audio editor or production person not tell her? She has a far smaller vocabulary than the author (who writes beautifully) and she doesn't understand the sense of many of the sentences she recites, putting the wrong expression into many clauses, pausing in odd places, generally ignoring the rhythm and meaning of the text. The mispronunciation involves removing syllables from words ('superority' for superiority, 'convality' for conviviality, and many more), inserting extra syllables ('VilINinus' for Vilnius, lustrious for 'lustrous'), and approximating unfamiliar words ('dissimating' for decimating, 'vivosity' for viscosity). She can't pronounce any of the French phrases used by the pompous professor father, making him seem dim rather than pompous, and she doesn't really differentiate voices for the characters. Her own voice is pleasant and well-produced, but she really needed input from the production team and/or author (plus more actor training). But the production team are also terrible in other ways: there is a lot of bad editing, which often leaves in the traces of stumbles in the reading or cuts them out inexpertly so the text doesn't flow. Penguin Audio presumably outsourced this recording to a small production company and didn't properly check the results--they should be derided for this since it is a serious disservice to the author of the book. I would strongly encourage Evaristo to protest at the shoddiness of this production and demand a new recording. Her story deserves better.
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- DD
- 2019/12/16
Great story, read poorly
Such an excellent story let down by really poor reading. The reader pronounced words incorrectly and it was difficult to distinguish between the characters. She read with one note throughout. Tbh, after a short time I decided that this was one that I was going to read myself because the reader was ruining it for me. How much better it would be if they could get a better actress to read this.
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- 2019/10/31
Brilliant
Absolutely beautiful, moving, well written, witty, and clever. I laughed, I cried, and I was educated. What more can you ask for from a book? Fantastic.
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- Hackney Girl
- 2019/10/21
A brilliant story - slightly spoiled by the reader
I actually listened to this book in one go. Very engaging and a real story of a range of today's womxn. However, the reader made so many errors in pronunciation of words and phrases that it was rather irritating. She was better with the traditional African parts and OK with the Caribbean parts but didn't seem to have more than GCSE level understanding of English, if that. I wonder why she was asked to be the reader!? But more concerning, I wonder why the publisher didn't get her to re-record all the bits she couldn't pronounce properly?
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- Rachel OConnell
- 2019/10/31
best book I have read in ages!
Fantastic narrator and fascinating characters. Excellent book. I couldn't stop listening to it. Beautifully written too. I cannot fault it.
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- Happy reader
- 2019/10/15
Best audiobook of 2019
Loved this. A story that really benefited from audio format. Wide ranging with huge appeal I cried at the end partly for the emotional conclusion mostly because it was over.
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- Robyn
- 2019/12/31
Human courage and beauty, entrancing
A fine piece of writing, a woven basket of ways of being, read well. Both moving and inspiring.
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- deb
- 2019/11/15
Read it, the narration is an issue
I understand why this book won the Booker prize (albeit shared with the Testament, which I don’t think should have won the Booker!). It is a compilation of short stories, eclectic voices of women of colour from different times, places, gender choices, sexual desires, backgrounds & every other diversity you can think of. I think the narrator was the problem for me. Her voice was a little monotone & preachy at times. Or was the book didactic? Also the pace was too quick & there weren’t pauses between the chapters. But I certainly recommend this book & think I need to read it rather than listen to it.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020/07/07
brilliant!
really enjoying reading this. entertaining, thought provoking, moving and real. i couldn't put it down.
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- Kitty
- 2020/06/29
Girl, Woman, Other.
Listened to this really delightful book in nearly one sitting. Highly recommend! A really genuine read. Enjoy!
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- Sarah
- 2020/06/26
Stunning
The story is consistently engaging, the characters are so full of life, and the narration is top class.
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- Alexis SHOREHILL
- 2020/06/05
wow
I loved this book. I want to go back and read it in text. thanks.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/06/04
Quite possibly the best book ever!
I just finished this book and want to read it, listen to it all over again. I love everything about it!
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- Nicky
- 2020/03/23
Thoroughly Enjoyable Read
Wonderful portrayal of 12 Black women with razor sharp insight. Their stories told with humour, insight and sometimes confronting conventional attitudes.
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- Dimitym
- 2020/01/19
Very dull narration
This may not have been a candidate for audio. Lots of monotonous basal tones. Interesting characters and clearly there’s a need for these stories but there was not enough plot to keep me interested.
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- Parvati Angana
- 2019/10/29
Good not Great
I started Girl Woman Other with huge expectations, as this was clearly a record-making booking. It had forced the hands of the Booker judges to split the prize for the first time ever. Clearly the Booker judges regarded this book as every bit as good as Atwood’s and it had beaten other great works on the short list, including Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte So I guess I should make myself clear - Girl Woman Other is a good novel - one I would have said I ‘quite liked’, had it not been for the huge expectations with which I had started reading it. The story, or stories as there are several strands,never really took off for me. I couldn’t see any of the kind of character development that makes you fully identify with a character (perhaps I did a bit with Anna). In the end the book gave me little more than a typology of how to be a modern person and live the sexuality and gender that feels right. I love the politics of the book, and if I was still teaching a university course on feminism, I would use the book as a text. But is this a book that will stay with me for the rest of my life? Has it given me a new way of looking at the world? Nope.