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  • Leonardo Da Vinci

  • By: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
  • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 370
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 330
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 326

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • An art history course in a book

  • By Nando Cuca on 14-11-17

Enjoyable intro to the polymath

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4 out of 5 stars
Performance
4 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 18-01-19

Interesting listen even when you can't see the illustrations directly. I did have to speed up the narrator slightly. The normal pace was too slow for me. A bit repetitive at times but I now appreciate Leonardo a bit more.

  • Daughter of the Forest

  • Sevenwaters, Book 1
  • By: Juliet Marillier
  • Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
  • Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 80
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 77
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 77

Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift-by staying silent.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Spellbinding! I highly recommend this book

  • By Susan on 05-11-13

Great storytelling

Overall
5 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 13-12-18

A reread of a favourite book. Am a big fan of Juliet Marillier.
I did not particularly like the narrator style, too slow. I had to increase the speed to 1.25 to make it bearable and I didn't like the pronounciation of Sorcha. But it's such a great book that I soon forgot these issues.

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  • The Darkest Road

  • The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 3
  • By: Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 70
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 63
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 63

In the conclusion of Guy Gavriel Kay's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, five university students from our world prepare to sacrifice themselves - as they enter into final battle against a power of unimaginable proportions.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Excellent

  • By Amazon Customer on 16-09-18

Excellent

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5 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 16-09-18

An audio reread of one of my favourite books. Guy Gabriel should be more famous.