Catharine Eastman
5 livros lidos para o LibriVox
- Les Misérables EnglishYes, it's huge, and Hugo will stop everything for fifty pages on the Paris sewers, but Jean Valjean lifting that cart, or the bishop handing over his candlesticks, will sit in your chest for years. Skim the digressions if you must; the mercy at the center holds.
- The Divine Comedy EnglishHell is the fun part, honestly: Dante keeps fainting, Virgil keeps steadying him, and old enemies get named and shamed in the ice. It asks patience (Paradiso gets very abstract), but as a walk through one man's whole moral universe, nothing else feels like it.
- The Humbugs of the World não ficção EnglishYes, the great showman himself grousing about frauds, and the irony lands better than you'd expect. He goes after spirit mediums, quack medicines, the Moon Hoax, all in chatty anecdotes, and half the fun is watching him carefully separate his kind of humbug from the cruel kind.
- The fun here is the straight face: the Baron rides a cannonball and ties his horse to a church steeple in a snowdrift, and never once winks at you. Short, silly episodes, perfect for dipping into, less so if you need a plot to hold onto.
- The Voyage of the Beagle não ficção EnglishYoung Darwin is such good company here, riding with gauchos, poking at fossil bones in Patagonia, puzzling over Galápagos finches without knowing yet what they mean. It's a rambling travel journal, so skim freely, but his curiosity about everything is genuinely infectious.