Carole in WA

So much lost

Revisado: 07-15-23

So sorry for your loss but I hope it saves even one family from such incredible despair. I think it will save more.

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Thank you, Elliot!!

Revisado: 07-14-23

My (adult) trans son came out to me in a brief text- not because we didn’t have a good relationship but because the internal struggle was too much for him to say anything more. I understood him so I understood that. I have only ever supported him, where he was at, with all the love in my heart.
He doesn’t like to talk about emotional things. He doesn’t like having feelings at all, actually. He knows I am here for him and always will be in case he ever feels able to share more.

Listening to Pageboy gave me tremendous insight into some of the feelings and thoughts that, I believe, are similar to what Elliot wrote about, but that my son couldn’t share with me.

Thank you, Elliot. Your voice, your affect, your intelligence, and your sense of humor remind me so much of my amazing son. I am so glad your mom and you are close to each other, but please know I am sending you so many healing mom hugs from Seattle.

Elliot- like my son, you are incredibly brave and I am glad you are able to live a life that allows you to be who you truly are.
Again, thank you!

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Umbrellas?

Revisado: 08-31-22

Sorry, but people in Seattle rarely use, or even own, umbrellas. Most of the time it doesn’t rain hard enough to use one and I would never refer to most of our rain as a storm. It also rarely…I mean RARELY… thunders.
Maybe we get 5 actual thunderclaps a year. Ask my dog!

The storyline was ok with a few nice surprises but the narrator read it so slowly that I had to speed it up to avoid long spaces between sentences. I really get tired of characters being so overly affected by their childhood trauma. Let me try to explain. I had incredibly severe childhood trauma and have spent years processing the anger in therapy but I do get very annoyed about the victim-y way some “successful” characters, almost always women, talk to themselves. “Successful” people who have survived childhood trauma tend to either bury it or deny it, or work through it, but not have a constant inner dialogue about it. If they are that unsure of their every move, they probably aren’t able to be that successful at anything. It just comes across whiny.

But, maybe I have baggage. Lol
I’m not heartless. I just don’t buy it.

There were several mispronunciations of local places which happens. She mispronounced my biggest pet peeve word, mischievous, but so do most people. She said it three times but only got it wrong once so I guess it could be worse.

By the way, it is MIS-chev-ous, not mis-cheevy-ous.

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The Village?

Revisado: 07-01-22

It was too much like The Village. Maybe one is based on the other but I liked The Village better.

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Why the music?? Narrator? Ugh!

Revisado: 05-22-22

1) The music is so annoying, is too loud, and lasts too long. It’s pretty much a deal-breaker.
2) The narrator’s grandiloquent voice does not match the character at all. SK characters usually have more depth and don’t sound like they’re auditioning for the American version of Downton Abbey. I feel like this is being read to me by a museum guide.
3) I actually had to stop the book and make sure it was actually written by Stephen King as it did not feel like it was.
4) The main character is annoying. She doesn’t sound like someone who has been abused for many years. She is not believable.
5) I’m going to give it one more chapter but I am pretty sure this SK book will go unfinished. I hate that.

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Narration will put you to sleep

Revisado: 05-02-21

The narration is terrible. There is so much time between words that the sentences lose meaning. I had to speed up the audio to 1.2 which shortened the book by TWO HOURS!

The story was predictable but worst of all is that the main character is an idiot. I would like to think you have to be smarter than that to be in the FBI.

Would not recommend.

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I tried but couldn’t listen anymore.

Revisado: 03-26-21

I had to stop listening. The narration was very dry. Every time the narrator said ‘Havana’ it was dubbed over with a breathy “Hah-VAHN-ah.” This was incredibly distracting. I think they did it every time she said Cuba, too.
Some narrators actually research and become their characters. This narrator just read a book, and poorly at that.

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Predictable. Narration was terrible.

Revisado: 08-21-19

I figured it out early on. Very predictable.
The narrator of Amber was so slow with the inflection all wrong. There were pauses in the middle of sentences that didn’t make sense.
Daphne’s narrator was a little better but not much.
The dialogue was crap.
I struggled to finish this book. It was such a waste of money.

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