Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac first met when they were in their forties, by which time both were already well-known writers. Concerned about finding a way to bring the "cop novel" genre out of the impending crisis, they decided to become co-authors. This is how the creative literary tandem of Boileau-Narcejac was born, which became a real phenomenon in the history of French literature in the second half of the 20th century...
Boileau-Narcejac is a creative tandem, which was made up of two French writers, Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The date of the beginning of the joint creative activity of "Boileau-Narcejac" is 1951, the year of the publication of the novel "Ghost Hunt". In 1948, at the award ceremony for Narsejak for the best adventure novel, the writers met, and after a while they began to write detective stories together, ...
Jaroslav Hasek, a man who lived his life as an adventure film, was able to show us the military Austria-Hungary in a comedic way, without losing the spirit of the era. The author wrote a very anti-war novel. Behind the humor and jokes, the horrors of the First World War are visible. It seems that even before the front, many soldiers will be killed by typhus, cholera and dysentery, while ...
Sue Townsend is a British writer best known for her character, Adrian Mole. This book is the diary of a thirteen-year-old boy, Adrian Mole. He is an ordinary teenager who writes poems, considering them masterpieces, and sending them to the editorial office of the BBC, suffers from skin problems that are common in teenagers and tries to...
We are our brain! Everyone has probably heard about Dr. Andrey Kurpatov. The book shows a historical experience that turned the concept of the brain and a variety of experiments showing how people unknowingly deceive themselves and others. The author sets himself the task of ridding the reader of the illusions imposed by culture and...
This story is not a fairy tale about Cinderella, here instead of a prince there is a dangerous businessman from the 90s, but a modern Cinderella girl in trouble. And only he can help her. He is a longtime family friend. A man who exudes strength and power, and a look that can incinerate anyone who gets in the way to achieve the goal. But still…...
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A short story about labor enthusiasm in the Far East, about youth and love, and also about oranges and miracles. After all, anything in life can be a miracle, because it's only in your attitude. Soviet citizens were not spoiled by the most ordinary things, they still remember the year when they managed to eat watermelon, and oranges ...
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English prose writer and author of the famous cycle "The Forsyte Saga" John Galsworthy was born on August 14, 1867 in the English city of Kingston upon Thames. Galsworthy was also popular as a playwright. In November 1932, John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The history of the Forsyte family over the course of its three generations for almost a century has not let go of many millions of readers.
John Galsworthy was an English prose writer and playwright, author of the famous Forsyte Saga cycle. He was the son of a prominent London lawyer. He graduated from Harrow Privileged School and Oxford University School of Law. In order to better study maritime law, which he wanted to choose as his profession, Galsworthy sailed on merchant ships for over two years and traveled to different countries.
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Top 10 Audiobooks to Start the Year Right!
May it be this year that everything that we unsuccessfully promised ourselves all the previous ones will be realized.
No wonder January 1, 2018 fell on a Monday. This is a double hint that it is time to start a new life and realize long-planned plans. In order not to lose all the ardor at the “laying on the couch and reading” stage, as is usually the case with books, we recommend turning to the audio format. Get educated on the go!
So, you are cheerful (praise the long January holidays) and ready for new challenges. Only one question remains: what exactly to listen to? What tips are not idle chatter or beautiful words, but will really help to formulate and set a goal, understand more about the mechanics of decision making, not hide from work problems and enjoy the process?
1. Eight rules of efficiency: smarter, faster, better. Secrets of productivity in life and business. Charles Duhigg
Duration: 10 hours 41 minutes
What this book will teach you: how to turn lemons into lemonade. That is, in absolutely every everyday situation (and life is not only ups and downs and inspiring joy) to see hidden opportunities.
If you list all the regalia of Charles Duhigg, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, award of the National Academy of Sciences, a recognized research journalist, it will take a good half an hour of the almost 11 hours of recording of the book The Eight Rules for Efficiency: Smarter, Faster, Better. Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business. What can a journalist and just a smart person teach? Such an important everyday "accessory" as the correct attitude to events. How not to panic and not fall into pleasant self-pity, how to rethink situations in such a way that instead of problems you see hidden opportunities, and also why it is very important to filter the information that comes to you.
2. The monk who sold his Ferrari. Robin Sharma
Duration: 6 hours
What This Book Will Teach: A first-hand, proven story about how everything in life needs to be balanced. Working hard and well is yes, but bringing yourself to work to a heart attack is not. Work still will not appreciate, but life will pass.
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes
What this book will teach you: if the buzzword “networking” scares you, and no one has canceled working with people, there is a chance to learn a couple of great tricks in just an hour.
Duration: 6 hours
What this book will teach: it will introduce such a concept as “financial program” into your vocabulary and everyday circulation. Have you noticed that people can earn the same money, but some people have money all the time, while others don’t have it all the time? But because the "financial program".
Duration: 14 hours 48 minutes
What this book will teach you: did you know that we make rash decisions because of insufficient amount of glucose in the body? These life hacks make up this entire book. Nothing invented, only facts that can and should be used to your advantage.
How do we make decisions, is there any system in this? Daniel Kahneman's book "Think Slowly... Decide Fast" explains these processes, reveals amazing things, helps to understand that there is very little unconscious in our life - in fact, everything is predetermined by biochemical processes and brain activity, we just did not know about it.
6. Set goals! Find your goal and achieve it in 1 year. Itzhak Pintosevich
Duration: 2 hours 54 minutes
What this book will teach you: set goals correctly. And you thought it was easy? Not really. Because a correctly formulated problem is already half of its solution.
Duration: 9 hours
What this book will teach: in theory, we all know everything. We know that to become a successful person, one must be able to communicate correctly; not just to know, but to apply knowledge; find non-standard solutions and always, in any situation, remain calm and friendly. It is a pity that no one has yet told how to do all this. Now it’s not a pity: they take it and tell it right now, and without special teachings and didactic tone.
Duration: 15 hours 37 minutes
What this book will teach you: Even if you still do not understand how exactly the early Chinese philosophical treatise “The Book of Changes” can help your career advancement or the quick purchase of your own apartment, just start listening to this book. And you will understand everything. Still, it is precisely according to Chinese philosophy that all the powerful of this world go crazy.
The "Book of Changes" is, first of all, a technology for correct comprehension, meaningful analysis of the situation. And Bronislav Vinogrodsky in the study "Practical course of change management" teaches how to use the ancient book as a technology for making managerial decisions.
9. 10 methods for the development of thinking and memory. Mikhail Litvak
Duration: 6 hours 46 minutes
What the book will teach: psychotherapist and candidate of medical sciences Mikhail Litvak talks about simple, in general, methods that will allow you to cope with your problems on your own. No magic, just logic and psychology.
Duration: 6 hours 45 minutes
What the book will teach: an alphabet for someone who takes steps in the difficult business of their own business, a good help for a top manager of a company. Well, just a couple of brightly burning firewood in the fire of your thoughts about the state of the Russian economy.
The specialist who put such giants as the Pyaterochka grocery chain and the Karusel store on their feet, Dmitry Potapenko, a world expert and a very straightforward person, immediately takes on a ruthless and businesslike tone. Because if you are already going to such a terrible and impenetrable forest as your own business, you should be ready for any attack by wolves.
That's about these "wolves" - about what bushes they are hiding behind and how to find and neutralize them in time - Potapenko warns in a useful book "Business is verbs and nouns that end in numbers".
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There are many wonderful works here, which won the hearts of not only domestic book lovers, but readers around the world:
Naturally, we do not forget about our young book lovers. In the section "Top 100" you can find a lot of wonderful works, from which the kids will be simply delighted:
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Audiobooks are exactly what you can pass the time for. You can listen to such a piece while traveling, lying in a hospital, in a place with poor lighting, and simply in any situation when you have free time. To make it easier to figure out what is worth listening to, we have compiled a rating of audiobooks.
Game of Thrones
First up is the Game of Thrones series. George Martin's books are about heroes and lords, mages, warriors and assassins, strange creatures that turn their enemies into terror, and swords made of unusual material that can hit anyone. In this legend, you can learn a lot of interesting things, here tragedy and betrayal, intrigues and bloody battles go side by side - This is an excellent example of modern literature.
Moscow-Petushki
In second place is the classic work of Venedikt Erofeev "Moscow-Petushki", dedicated to the journey of an alcoholic on an electric train. This impressive work did not just get into our rating, the best readers of audio books can envy S. Shnurov, who reads it very emotionally.
People who play games
The genre of psychology is also in great demand, the modern reader is trying to understand the features of his mind with enviable persistence. "People who play games" is a book by Eric Berne, a famous American psychoanalyst. This man is the creator of the theory of transactional analysis.
Warranty men
Even fairy tales make it into our ranking of the best audiobooks. As you know, for any item there is a guarantee - that is, it should not fail. According to Eduard Uspensky, small creatures that hide in household appliances are responsible for it. In his “Guarantee Little Men” Kholodilin lives in the refrigerator, and Vacuum Cleaner lives in the vacuum cleaner, and on the radio there is a character whose name is News of the Day. This kind story will give children a lot of pleasant impressions.
By the great river
When it comes to such a thing as audiobook ratings, fantasy is always in the lead. The book by Andrey Cruz "By the Great River" speaks of the intersection of worlds, where the ordinary and familiar to us collided with magic and sorcery. In the center of the book is the story of an evil hunter who is faced with serious problems.
Harry Potter
Yes, seven books from JK Rowling are still popular, and listening to the story of a young wizard performed by A. V. Klyukvin is doubly interesting. Throughout the saga, a little boy who suddenly finds out that he is a magician with a difficult fate, grows into a warrior who has nothing less to do - to save the world.
Flowers for Algernon
Another classic by Daniel Keyes. A tragic story, the main character of which is a person with developmental delays, who, as a result of experiments by scientists, becomes a supergenius. But the effect of the medicine turns out to be inconsistent - and the smartest person on the planet again returns to his previous state, having only had time to know happiness for a very short time. In the performance of Semyon Yanishevsky, the story becomes especially interesting.
Shantaram
Concludes our rating of audiobooks "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts. Read by Ivan Litvinov, this story is about a man whose life suddenly went downhill. He commits robberies, goes to prison, escapes from it, becomes a smuggler, meets and loses love - this is a very eventful piece that can be listened to in one breath. No one is surprised by the fact that she managed to get into the bestseller lists in a short time and get a lot of comparisons with the best works of modern authors.
Vadim Georgievich Reshelov led the usual measured life of a former representative of power, until a phone call pulled him out of his routine. Unfortunately (or fortunately for all romantics and computer game lovers), the Zone is slowly spreading beyond the perimeter through the efforts of poachers and smugglers.
What is happening with the world? Or are unprecedented adventures a figment of Vadim's imagination? Literary and film characters, like fragments of images of consciousness, made up a mosaic of a strange reality, where a stalker's secret is to be discovered. But won't reality turn out to be an illusion of a fanatic?
The zone can choose you, even if you are far from the stalker lifestyle. The path of life unexpectedly twisted, and Vadim Reshilov was drawn into the Svyatogor project. The rapid change of events, the hurricane alternation of mise en scenes creates the impression of the unreality of what is happening.
What are we faced with: the absurdity of life or a phantasmagoria reminiscent of a computer game? You decide, listener!
Yes ... those who did not serve in the army lost a lot.
But this is recoverable, since all this is in Seregin's books: it is written beautifully
and most importantly true.
Someone will say - IT CANNOT BE, but maybe, and even not like that!
NEW sci-fi action thriller from the bestselling author of Replay the War!, Time Eaters and Blow Up the Past! Abandoned in 1941, where they don’t know the word “popadanets”, and the aliens from the future are called “Wanderers”, our contemporaries are replaying the history of the Great Patriotic War. On their raids on the German rear, State Security Major Sudoplatov reports to Stalin himself. Their tank destroyers and reconnaissance and sabotage groups inflict irreparable losses on the Nazis. Having fallen into their ambush, the Reichsführer SS Himmler was liquidated. The investigation into the circumstances of his death was entrusted to the head of the V Department of the RSHA (Gestapo) Müller. And Stalin transfers the case of the "Wanderers" under the personal control of Beria ... Will the "victims" manage to escape persecution and break through to their own through the front line? Will the Soviet leadership believe their information? And what price are they willing to pay for the Victory not only over the "rotten fascist evil spirits", but also over the merciless Time?
Twenty years ago, the English archaeologist and millionaire Reginald Kensington disappeared without a trace in the legendary city of Ubar, lost in the Arabian desert. After a mysterious explosion in a gallery founded by Kensington, where treasures from Ubar are collected, scientists discover inside a stone statue, split during the explosion, a strange metal detail - an exact copy of a human heart. The daughter of an archaeologist sets out a scientific expedition to unravel the mysteries of the desert. However, this explosion attracts the attention of not only scientists, but also an international criminal group seeking to take possession of some mysterious power hidden somewhere in the dungeons of Ubar.
Yegor Razin is a mercenary pilot. He kills because it pays, but now it's his turn to die. And the only salvation is a dangerous experiment, because of which he ends up in the epicenter of the war in an unknown place, in an incomprehensible time and with an unknown enemy - necrosis that destroys reality itself.
"Password: "Eternity"" is the first novel of the science fiction project "Tekhnotma" in the "post-apocalyptic" genre from the authors of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.
"Death on Brotherhood" is the title of a cycle of 10 stories in the experimental genre of "novel-film", designed to combine literary text with the visuality of cinema.
The story "Maria, Maria ..." (the seventh film) sheds light on the mysterious death of the famous battleship.
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A new fantastic action movie from the best-selling author of Replay the War and Sudoplatov's Wanderers! Having broken through the time line and found themselves in 1941, our contemporaries set out on a reconnaissance and sabotage raid on the rear of the Wehrmacht. They will cut the enemy's most important communications. They will disrupt the transfer of German troops to Leningrad and Kyiv. They attack the headquarters of Army Group Center. But not everyone will return from this desperate raid...
Which of the “popadans” is not destined to “survive until dawn”? Who will receive a funeral from the past? And can the missing be resurrected from the dead?
“Death on Brotherhood” is the title of a cycle of 10 stories in the experimental genre of “novel-film”, designed to combine literary text with the visuality of cinema.
The story Operation Transit (the ninth film) tells about the departure from Switzerland in the famous sealed carriage of a person who is called to change the course of Russian history.
Maxim Sukhanov, Daria Moroz and Alexander Klyukvin performed the immortal work of the Master so easily, ironically and provocatively that it is literally impossible to tear yourself away from the audio version of the novel. You haven't heard this before! An excellent cast, excellent author's music - all the epithets for this audiobook can only be in superlatives. Rate it yourself!
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