P. Rheuban Simon

Boring

Revisado: 07-17-24

Reader was not good. Monotonous Best used as a sleeping pill because it didn’t matter if you missed chunks of it.

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Meh

Revisado: 10-08-23

Predictable. Pleasant. Time passer. Not great. Worth listening to to fall asleep although readers voice was cloying.

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Better than the title implied

Revisado: 11-27-22

Extremely well written story about human passion and spirit; of a boy who defies social norms and odds and fights for what he knows he has earned.

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Captivating on every level!

Revisado: 11-27-22

One of the most delightful books I have listened to (I have over 800). The story was extremely well written and the reader has the most mellifluous voice and perfect intonation. I was surprised to find myself so engrossed in a story about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary and especially delighted to discover it was written based on real events, although fictionalized. The characters were beautifully captured in their passion and devotion, both to their work and to each other. Truly a wonderful selection.

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Narrator was slow and plodding throughout entire book. Story was well written and important in context of today’s issues.

Revisado: 06-17-21

High school children Could be quite surprised to see the similarity in the 1800s and the duplicity by which
the Hawaiian islands were stolen from their peace loving native land owners by greedy, religious, or manipulative Americans who want to do it and for profit. It’s much too familiar with so much of what’s happening today, but a lesson that better be learned.

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Captivating

Revisado: 12-13-20

Anger. Guilt. Sorrow. Fear. Forgiveness. Powerfully scripted tale of our humanness at the worst time of our lives. Thoroughly enjoyed.

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poor reader

Revisado: 06-05-20

The main reader had an annoying style for me. A tremulous voice that often seemed melodramatic and false. Otherwise I would have rated all 5's.

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Worth reading

Revisado: 05-29-20

It’s becoming harder to find different stories of late but this book did it. Well written and read the characters drew you in and kept you invested.

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Extremely disappointing

Revisado: 04-11-20

I have enjoyed other tales of life in rural mountain regions and looked forward to this one. However, the reader adopted such an affected, intense Ozark dialect and twang that it grated on me the entire book. I kept skipping chapters, hoping to enjoy the story more if i listened less to the dialect, but it totally ruined the enjoyment for me.

The story concept, while engaging, was also disappointing. The characters relationships were thinly developed and for the multiple characters involved this was not terribly meaningful. However, there were a few relationships in this story which the dynamics could and should have been far more dynamically portrayed.

Overall this book was a great disappointment to me, especially having it highly recommended by someone who had read it in printed form. Maybe that made a difference here.

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So you think you have problems?

Revisado: 03-19-20

in this apparently idealized family, all the adult "successful" children are miserable by varying degrees. But Mom and Dad are exceptionally happy with each other and still in love, so their children have all decided they can never meet the expectations of matching their love and are therefore doomed to their unfulfilling and fractured relationships. But the kids arent that crazy and life, as it does, has swayed each of them by events never planned for and circumstances never imagined. Like most normal human beings, they, as would we, struggle to figure out WTF to do next! The parents actually arent that perfect and somehow this family stumbles over and through their crazy persecutions of themselves and each other in a ways both poignant and humorous until they reach a fuller understanding and acceptance of who they are and what it means to really be a family. Altho I wasnt quite happy with this story at the beginning, it became much more engrossing as I got into it and I enjoyed it very much.

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