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| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6355 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 1 24 December 2008 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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If anyone is looking for a Spanish (from the English equivalent) book and Spanish audio combination that is "easier" than Harry Potter or the Dan Brown books (El Codigo DaVinci, Angeles y Demonios), you might want to look into the Spanish version of Mitch Albom's "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." ("Las Cinco Personas Que Encontraras en el Cielo.")
If you search Amazon for "Albom heaven," you will find listings for everything. I saw the made-for-TV "Hallmark Hall of Fame" movie when it aired a couple years ago (John Voight), and thought it was pretty good. Amazon has a 2-minute sample clip of it under the "Video On Demand" listing. The audio says "Abridged," but it's still 5 hours 43 minutes. For the books, the style of writing is easier to read than the others I mentioned above (samples below), and if you check out the Audible.com 5-minute sound-clip sample (also listed in Amazon. Click on the speaker symbol), you'll hear that it was recorded at a slower pace. The reader speaks slower, takes some pauses here and there, and is easier to comprehend than the fast-paced Potter audio. For you parallel reading fans, here is the first couple paragraphs in English and Spanish: "Este relato es sobre un hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol. Puede parecer raro que un relato empiece por el final, pero todos los finales son tambien comienzos, lo que pasa es que no lo sabemos en su momento. La ultima hora de la vida de Eddie transcurrio, como tantas otras, en el Ruby Pier, un parque de atracciones junto a un oceano gris. El parque tenia las atracciones habituales: una pasarela de madera, una rueda de Chicago, montanas rusas, carritos chocones, un puesto de galosinas y una galeria donde uno podia disparar chorros de agua a la boca de un payaso.Tambien tenia una nueva atraccion que se llamaba la Caida Libre, y seria alli donde moriria Eddie, en un accidente que apareceria en los periodicos de todo el estado" "This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't knowit at the time. The last hour of Eddie's life was spent, like most of the others, at Ruby Pier, an amusement park by a great gray ocean. The park had the usual attractions, a boardwalk, a Ferris wheel, roller coasters, bumper cars, a taffy stand, and an arcade where you could shoot streams of water into a clown's mouth. It also had a big new ride called Freddy's Free Fall, and this would be where Eddie would be killed, in an accident that would make newspapers around the state." (I haven't read this yet, since I started on learning French and Chinese instead!) Edited by TerryW on 24 December 2008 at 10:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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