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A Spectre, Haunting
- Narrated by: China Miéville
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious.
The Manifesto is a text that shows no sign of fading into antiquarian obscurity. Its ideas animate in different ways the work of writers like Yanis Varoufakis, Adam Tooze, Naomi Klein and the journalist Owen Jones.
China Mieville is not a writer who has been hemmed in by conventional notions of expertise or genre, and this is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-10-24
Great narration
Some of these reviews, I think, refer to an old narration of this book. The current one is excellent, and so is the content of the book. Listen!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-24
A better reading than I expected
I expected the contents to be good considering the pedigree of the author, but earlier reviews led me to expect a poor reading.
I did not find this to be the case- it is both clear and well articulated.
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- Jonathan Minchin
- 03-01-23
An important and relevant account and view
This dissection is relevant for our time. we'll worth the read and opinion. May it spark debate and action.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-07-22
Badly narrated and incomplete
The narration is very stilted and the narrator mispronounces many (and common) words, which makes following the arguments really difficult. Having bought the Kindle version and read it since finishing the audio version, I can say that Mieville's book is compelling and well worth reading. But I'd avoid this audio version, which is a real shame.
Also, almost half the book (the afterword and appendices) are missing, despite the narrator reading out the section of the introduction that says what they are.
Read the book, don't listen to the audio version!
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- sarah d.
- 13-11-22
Fantastic
Well read easy to understand makes the manifesto accessible no matter your experience in leftist literature
Gives a good background and insight into the authors and the historical period in which it was wrote,
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- Evalena Styf
- 11-06-22
SKIP THIS ONE - BUY THE BOOK INSTEAD!
I've been looking forward to this release and I was excited when finally was here. But... Having listened to about 50%, I had to give up. DNF a Mieville? I didn't see that one ever happening, but please note it's no fault of the authors (unless he hand-picked the narrator and approved of this). I "read" audiobooks all the time, so I've heard a lot of narrations that weren't good. This goes beyond that. The narration creates a noise that distorts the whole book and makes it virtually impossible to focus on what's being said. There are. Gaps. Constant. Gaps within. Sentences. For no obvious. Reason. (Written example of narration.) It's almost like it was recorded in phrases, or random clusters of words, and then someone decided to skip the editing phase and just chuck 'em all together and call it a day. There is no reading flow. No sense of this being read by an actual person. If it wasn't against my principles, I would return this for a refund. I guess there really is a first for everything. As it is, I really want to read this book, so I guess I'm gonna have to buy the ebook and read that instead. But yeah, huge disappointment. Huge.
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- ian mcintosh
- 23-06-22
A good book but a dreadful narration
I think this is a good book but I could not listen to the narration. I bought the book and will read it.
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