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Snow
- A Novel
- 著者: John Banville
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 8 時間 22 分
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Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford - flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer - faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in this tight-knit community he begins to investigate.
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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 Vanishing Half
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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American Spy
- 著者: Lauren Wilkinson
- ナレーター: Bahni Turpin
- 再生時間: 10 時間 50 分
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It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down.
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Actress
- 著者: Anne Enright
- ナレーター: Anne Enright
- 再生時間: 8 時間 4 分
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This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine’s past, or the world’s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother’s secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.
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Blacktop Wasteland
- A Novel
- 著者: S. A. Cosby
- ナレーター: Adam Lazarre-White
- 再生時間: 11 時間 8 分
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Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hardworking dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be: Known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast. He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat.
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Snow
- A Novel
- 著者: John Banville
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 8 時間 22 分
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Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford - flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer - faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in this tight-knit community he begins to investigate.
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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 Vanishing Half
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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American Spy
- 著者: Lauren Wilkinson
- ナレーター: Bahni Turpin
- 再生時間: 10 時間 50 分
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It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down.
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Actress
- 著者: Anne Enright
- ナレーター: Anne Enright
- 再生時間: 8 時間 4 分
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This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine’s past, or the world’s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother’s secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.
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Blacktop Wasteland
- A Novel
- 著者: S. A. Cosby
- ナレーター: Adam Lazarre-White
- 再生時間: 11 時間 8 分
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Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hardworking dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be: Known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast. He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat.
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Who They Was
- 著者: Gabriel Krauze
- ナレーター: Gabriel Krauze
- 再生時間: 9 時間 28 分
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This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war zones of big cities - and the girls trying to make it their own way. This is a story of reputations made and lost, of violence and vengeance - and never counting the cost. This is a story of concrete towers and blank-eyed windows, of endless nights in police stations and prison cells, of brotherhood and betrayal.
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The Space Between Worlds
- 著者: Micaiah Johnson
- ナレーター: Nicole Lewis
- 再生時間: 11 時間 46 分
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Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying - from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
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The Discomfort of Evening
- 著者: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
- ナレーター: Genevieve Gaunt
- 再生時間: 7 時間 45 分
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Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all.
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A Suitable Boy (Dramatised)
- 著者: Vikram Seth
- ナレーター: Ayesha Dharker, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, full cast
- 再生時間: 5 時間 44 分
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A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families: the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans, and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with.
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Piranesi
- 著者: Susanna Clarke
- ナレーター: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- 再生時間: 6 時間 58 分
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell transported countless listeners into its mysterious world. It became an instant classic and has been hailed as one of the finest works of fiction of the 21st century. Fifteen years later, it is finally time to enter the House and meet Piranesi. May your paths be safe and your floors unbroken, and may the house fill your eyes with Beauty.
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Hide And Seek
- 著者: Ian Rankin
- ナレーター: James Macpherson
- 再生時間: 8 時間 1 分
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A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists.
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- 著者: Mary L. Trump PhD
- ナレーター: Mary L. Trump PhD
- 再生時間: 7 時間 5 分
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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up.
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Behind Closed Doors
- 著者: B. A. Paris
- ナレーター: Georgia Maguire
- 再生時間: 8 時間 29 分
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Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He's a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You're hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
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The Perfect Couple
- 著者: Jackie Kabler
- ナレーター: Elaine Claxton, Hattie Ladbury
- 再生時間: 11 時間 27 分
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A year ago, Gemma met the love of her life, Danny. Since then, their relationship has been perfect. But one evening, Danny doesn’t return home. Gemma turns to the police. She is horrified by what she discovers – a serial killer is on the loose in Bristol. When she sees photos of the victims she is even more stunned...they all look just like Danny. Who would you believe? But the police are suspicious. Why has no one apart from Gemma heard from Danny in weeks?
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Strip Jack
- 著者: Ian Rankin
- ナレーター: Samuel Gillies
- 再生時間: 10 時間 48 分
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Gold Dagger-winner and best-selling author in the United Kingdom, Ian Rankin crafts absorbing crime novels with solidly drawn characters and first-rate plotting. In Strip Jack, he portrays a shocking murder investigation that exposes the sordid side of Edinburgh politics and society. Detective John Rebus suspects a set-up when a respected Member of Parliament is caught in a police raid on a brothel—and his flamboyant wife suddenly disappears.
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Unorthodox
- The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
- 著者: Deborah Feldman
- ナレーター: Rachel Botchan, Cassandra Campbell
- 再生時間: 10 時間 39 分
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As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
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The Silkworm
- Cormoran Strike, Book 2
- 著者: Robert Galbraith
- ナレーター: Robert Glenister
- 再生時間: 17 時間 16 分
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
あらすじ・解説
National Book Award, Fiction, 2013
From the best-selling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade - and who must pass as a girl to survive.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town - with Brown, who believes he’s a girl.
Over the ensuing months, Henry - whom Brown nicknames Little Onion - conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 - one of the great catalysts for the Civil War.
An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride’s meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.
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- Zoey L.
- 2013/12/13
Abolition Huck Finn arouses interest in history
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McBride's depiction of John Brown is fascinating. His greatest trait is his blind faith. But his blind faith is also his undoing. Believing that he's getting messages directly from God deafens him to the advice of his companions. You know the story is going to end badly for him. So listening to it you're begging him to listen, just once, to the advice that will make his plan succeed. That's the backbone of the novel. John Brown is surrounded by people with weaker convictions than him, who end up following him, for all the right reasons, to their own doom. He's a really tragic hero, who fails at his plan, but ends up making a difference through martyrdom.
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If I were a history teacher, I'd use this book to make my students care about the boring stuff that led up to the Civil War. I'm not a fan of the Civil War, despite plenty of great movies and books on the subject. Let's face it. It's a national embarrassment. Too much Civil War is like having a loaded diaper shoved in your face. And yet, I found myself staying up late doing research about what set the stage for the Civil War because of this book: Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, Mexican-American War, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas... the battle for balance between slave states and free states for their respective votes in Washington D.C. None of these are mentioned in the novel, but I found myself spending hours reading up on them. And following the timeline of the novel: homesteading and the politics of granting land to encourage westward immigration from the big cities where unemployment was causing it's own difficulties. After John Brown failed, the south mustered up militias to prevent slave rebellions, which in turn gave them a military advantage that the north took years to catch up to. There are a great many interesting social dynamics alluded to by this telling of the botched raid on Harper's Ferry. Suddenly I care about a part of US history that never held my interest. James McBride finds sympathy and flaws in all these different characters at odds with one another. Everyone has warts, but you come to understand their humanity. You start to understand the way people thought at a different time and yearn for them to see the light. It's really engaging. And the gem of it all is the trick of telling it through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who is just trying to save his own skin. This character's commentary on the more important historical stuff clashing with his self-preservation is hilarious.
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- Melinda
- 2013/08/27
An Interesting Re-Telling of a Little Known Man
This is a quaint historical novel about the abolitionist John Brown, who's deeds and follies set the stage for the American Civil War. At first, I had a hard time listening to the chortling of "The Onion" a 10 to 12 year-old boy who was put into a dress and apparently lived as a woman for 17 years. After a couple of hours, I got into the voice...and the book is quite hysterical in some areas. I had to look it up to see if John Roberts was a real person or not, just because his escapades seemed so unrealistic. But, John Roberts did live, although I doubt the boy/girl nicknamed "The Onion" is a real person. But Onion is the perfect vehicle for telling this story. He is a child whom everyone treats as a girl, and for that reason, he could get into places and do things that a boy could not have been able to.
I enjoyed this book because it was funny and the voice actor was really quite good...after I got used to the sound of his voice. Audible makes a mistake when reading the introduction, because you think it is going to sound like that the whole way though. They have done that with other books that I did not appreciate.
Through the eyes of The Onion (so nicknamed because John Roberts hands the kid this rotten/petrified onion he kept as a good luck charm, but The Onion doesn't understand why he has been given this hideous rotten piece of crap masquerading as an onion, so he eats it. Then John Roberts always protects him, proclaiming that "She's my lucky charm" (I guess because s/he ate the onion instead of putting it in his/her pocket).
There are lots of funny scenes where the kid's true identity is almost unmasked, but while reading the bible on evening on a porch in Virginia, the boy realizes that a body, male or female, black or white is simply a shell and who one is inside and the outer shell doesn't make a bit of difference. I was touched by that, and it is true, IMO.
I don't like to reveal much of a book's plot points or the way it ends....but I found it very enjoyable and would recommend it to anyone who likes a farcical historical novel. I read about it on the NPR's website and went straight to Audible and bought it and I'm glad I did. It is witty, not too gory and I quite enjoyed it. It's a bit like Tom Robbins meets Edward P. Jones to write about a part of American Slavery and one man's feverish desire (driven by the Lord!) to bring an end to slavery. Oh...and we get to meet Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman in a way that we have never met them before.
All and all, a very enjoyable read. I can see it as a movie...maybe directed by the Cohen Brothers....who would be perfect for the tone of the book.
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- Health nut
- 2016/12/27
Entertaining historical fiction
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Although the character of "Onion" in this story of John Brown and his anti-slavery campaign is fictional, he is engaging, and his situation adds a lot of humor that helps keep the story compelling. My husband and I listened to it on a cross-country drive and both couldn't wait to get back to it when the drive was interrupted. I learned a lot about John Brown--his commitment, his sometimes foolish decisions, the complexities of the slavery question (at the time) in the western territories, his connections to Abolitionists including Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman. Michael Boatman is a versatile reader who gives voice to a variety of characters and helps keep them distinct.
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- W Perry Hall
- 2017/03/05
'Whatever you is, Onion,' he said, 'be it full.'
"'Whatever you is, Onion,' [Brown] said, 'be it full.'"
As the 2013 National Book Award-winning novel begins, the memoirs of Henry Shackleford are found in a Delaware church. Henry was a 12-year-old slave in Kansas when he was taken by the abolitionist firebrand John Brown in 1857 under an odd combination of circumstances. Brown assumed he was a girl, mistaking the potato sack he was wearing at the time to be a dress. Shortly after Henry earned the nickname "Little Onion" after unwittingly eating part of a rancid onion. He stays with Brown's group for a while then spends a couple of years at a Missouri whorehouse, doing odd jobs and continuing to pretend he was a young girl.
Once reunited, he travels with Brown on a tour to raise funds and support for the coming "armed insurrection" of slaves in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including a meeting in Rochester, New York with Frederick Douglass (who the author imagines is not only a polygamist civil rights leader and icon but also a sexually perverted buffoon who tries to seduce the 14-year-old Little Onion) and a memorable encounter with a serious, strong and understandably cautious Harriet Tubman across the border in Canada. Then came a remarkably imagined few days prior to the raid when the wily and obsessive Brown makes quixotic plans to take the Harpers Ferry armory to arm the area slaves, and tasks Little Onion with "hiving the bees"; followed by a reimagining of the failed raid on Harpers Ferry that became a primary spark to the beginning of the American Civil War.
"It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.” [Henry "Little Onion" Shackleford]
I was drawn in by the young protagonist, who is somewhat reminiscent of Huckleberry Finn in his journey along the Mississippi River, his connection with the animated and pious Brown, his development as seen through his first person narration which is at first innocent and then cynical, and often amused by the hysterical happenings, some classically hilarious dialogue and evocations of haunting imagery.
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- alana
- 2014/02/12
great narrating in this book
I'm an Audible fan generally, but found Michael Boatman's reading of this to be especially compelling. A fun story about a young slave who witnesses the zany John Brown in his exploits and misadventures.
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- BG853
- 2014/09/25
History and Humor
Witty, well written and informative. An historical novel featuring John Brown the famous abolitionist who met his end at Haper's Ferry Virginia and a boy slave whom he called "little Onion."
Onion tells it how he sees it, in the venacular of the time, (or rather how she sees it as he travels with Brown and his men in "bloody Kansas" as a girl).
Michael Boatman's narration enhanced the story by infusing the characters with distinct personalities and with nailing the comic timing of Onion's ascerbic and hillarious narration.
Highly recommended.
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- JRK
- 2014/04/24
Best book. Best adventure!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Good Lord Bird to be better than the print version?
I wouldn't know, but I liked the narrator for the audio edition.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Onion is the best character. Next best is Old John Brown. All in all I loved every character in the book.
What does Michael Boatman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Excitement of the journey. He opens up the comedy of the story. I was actually depressed when I started reading it, and I found myself laughing out loud at the stuff Onion and the Old Man got themselves into.
Who was the most memorable character of The Good Lord Bird and why?
John Brown, then Onion the unwilling transgender character.
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Good story and funny, funny and funny!
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- Susan
- 2020/10/09
Fabulous
It's wry and it's funny. It's also a powerful story about John Brown, a man who was so completely consumed with the evil of slavery that he felt called by God to take action. He may have been a lunatic, but his passion and commitment provided significant traction to bring the issue of slavery to a crucial national decision point. McBride takes a wonderfully irreverent path in telling the story of the lead up to the raid on Harpers Ferry, using the voice of Brown's (fictional) "good luck charm," Henry Shackleford, aka Henrietta, aka The Onion. The narrator, Michael, Boatman, does a wonderful job in conveying the energy and momentum of the story. I had a hard time putting it down, and couldn't help feeling a real twinge of unease that the struggles of that period of time remain with us still today.
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- wendy
- 2013/09/17
Ugh
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Perhaps people who like a simple story with much repetition will enjoy this book more than I did.
Has The Good Lord Bird turned you off from other books in this genre?
no
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator was ok, but a bit "one note" for the main character.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
I was disappointed in the repetitive storyline, endless descriptions of John Brown's wrinkles and hokum from the main character. To me, the main character lacked depth and the story was shallow. With such rich subject matter, I expected more heart. I did make myself listen all the way through, even though I was annoyed at times and found that I didn't look forward to listening.
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総合評価
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- Penny Carnathan
- 2018/08/07
Magnificent performance; decent story
This is a good story worth listening to especially thanks to Michael Boatman's superb narration. He is simply extraordinary! It's well-written and offers an unusual perspective on an interesting time in history - John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. So why my somewhat lackluster ratings? I never developed an emotional connection with the narrator or the characters. My enjoyment was purely intellectual - appreciation of the great wordsmithing and astounding narration, but it didn't pull me in. I found myself checking to see how many hours I had left to listen because I wanted to finish but was ready to move on.