It is an intelligent, measured exploration of the extremes of human nature, from bravery and the capacity for endurance, to the self delusion and cruelty of dictators. Just can't understand why a more appropriate narrator wasn't used. This book is indeed laced with riveting accounts from ex-Stasi and the people they oppressed. What did you dislike? Read more Read less. Good listen if you can get over the accent This is a book about an Australian woman's experiences living in East Germany and researching the Stasi. 
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They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was I like the light moments and the humor through out the book and the sensitive way the different audioobook are told. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. Anna Funder visits what was East Germany, armed with fluent German and knowledge of international law.
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East Germany cannot die for her while its bogeymen are still living in the same flats and drinking in the same pubs. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: In fact I have heard a great deal more in German magazines. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.
When you're all that stands between the murderous past and the fate of those you love, how far would you go to save them? I could not stop listening to it.
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Inthe Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and Mi Germany ceased to voyage. Walking through the Stasi prison with a victim-guide kept my emotions dancing on hot coals all night. Bill Hayes came to New York City in with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. What members say Average Customer Ratings Overall. When one of the main persons are taken in for interrogation about her love letters to a long gone boyfriend.
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I loved hearing about the bizarre experiences from former residents or police from the former East Germany. Soon his father was urging him to earn his own keep, and by 16 he was working in his first restaurant. Which scene was your favorite? Fantastic book audioobok I'd recommend to anyone.
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Each enthralling story depicts what it's like to live in Berlin as the city knits itself back together - or fails to. This was a real "break the fourth wall" moment for me, particularly when she attempted different regional English accents to portray the various characters in the book.
But to get to these portions, you'll have to spend hours listening to Ms. The communist experiment in East Germany was based on threats, secrecy and lies remember all their now discredited Olympic "achievements"?
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Get a free audiobook. Boring and reads like fiction Really tried to like this book.
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Did Stasiland inspire you to do anything? Just can't understand why a more appropriate narrator wasn't used.
When one of the main persons are taken in for interrogation about her love letters to a long gone boyfriend. This book was wonderful.
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