Sally T. Warthen

Life story from a master storyteller.

Revisado: 03-18-25

I have never cared for John le Carre’s spy novels, but I found this collection of his letters irresistible. His warm friendships and intelligent commentary on world affairs accompany the story of his life and work, all presented by a virtuous wordsmith.

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A very technical look at English literature.

Revisado: 03-05-25

The performance makes the book almost impossible to enjoy. He tries to make the performance dramatic by dropping his voice on the punch line and obscuring the meaning of the sentence.

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Hilarious 48 hour romp through New York with a somewhat unbalanced Shakespearean actress and her Beagle.

Revisado: 02-04-25

Dark, zany, imaginative humor and fascinating characters. Rates a second or third reading. Knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare essential.

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Interesting book, annoying reader.

Revisado: 12-14-24

This double biography of Robert Lewis Stevenson and his devoted wife reveals their eccentric relationship and highly adventurous life together. Unfortunately, the reader attempts to mimic the accent of the speaker in every quotation, The effect is ridiculous and breaks the flow of the narrative.

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More fun than a picnic

Revisado: 05-28-23

This series (there are 4 of them now, with one on the way) is outstanding entertainment. Anthony Horowitz is a virtuoso writer, in quality and quantity. He's written children's action stories, highly innovative mysteries, parodies of Canon Doyle and Ian Fleming, and Foyle's War for television, all of which are excellent entertainment--but these books featuring a detective name Hawthorne are my favorites. The author has borrowed Doyle's trick of telling the detective's exploits through the eyes of a clueless sidekick, and made himself (Anthony Horowitz} the clueless sidekick--not only clueless but reluctant, offended by the detective's treatment of him and embarrassed about his prejudices. He (Horowitz) tells the reader all sorts of things about his own life--where he lives, how he works, his editor, his other projects--so the reader has another layer of mystery crying out to be solved: how much of this detail is for real? For instance, did he really have a meeting with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson about a sequel to Tintin (in the first book)? Did he really write the play featured in the fourth book (The Twist of a Knife) and were any of those cast members real?
Any of Mr. Horowitz's books merit a second reading; once from audible, and a second in print, so as to enjoy the mastery of language.

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For music lovers.

Revisado: 07-04-22

Required listen for Bach lovers, especially those who have performed the St. Matthew Passion. The story of its creation from the point of view of a homesick but very talented choirboy who is befriended by the Bach family. Wonderful performance.

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An engaging history with a terrible reader.

Revisado: 04-06-19

This reader's bizarre pronunciation is very distracting. He mispronounces not just proper names, but a great many normal English words.

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