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Never a dull moment

Revisado: 04-06-24

The narrator did a really fine job. When dealing in nonfiction, it sometimes becomes possible to project a monotonous tone into the narration; but the author, who is the narrator here, did a great job of avoiding that pitfall. The subject matter was very interesting. The complexity of the time and the dangers of the world events, combined with the hope of a new social order, mixed to make this a fascinating read.

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I was rooting for Winston until the end

Revisado: 04-01-24

I’ll keep it simple. The time and the place seemed true and the characters had important stories to tell. It was sad, but it was also so funny. There was just enough drama to keep you wondering how it was going to end. The narration was superb, and in my personal Ratings in my own spreadsheet. It gets 4 1/2 out of five stars. 

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Don’t buy this book

Revisado: 06-28-23

I have really enjoyed previous Kerouac novels that I purchased from audible. This, however, should not be mistaken to be a story in any way, shape, or form. This is a tedious reading of a notebook, which the narrator chooses for some reason to stop in the middle of a sentence to read the page number of every page of the notebook as he turns the page. The only redeeming value is in the introduction, which provides a good summary of the entire book. The small portions that are pages from actual stories are the only reason that I can give the performance three stars and please do not get me started on how horrible it is to hear someone read the entirety of the Diamond Cutter of Perfect Knowing. If you really want all of these details, and you want to claim you read everything you found from Jack Kerouac, just get the written book. It’s the only way to look at material like this.

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I had no idea!

Revisado: 05-09-23

Having graduated in 1989 with a small loan balance, I was fortunate to pay no more than $81 a month for 10 years to repay my student loans. I never understood what the issue was with the student debt crisis until a coworker who graduated in 2017 explained how debt was impacting her life. I began to ask other individuals of various ages if they still had debt. I was quite surprised at the number of people over 50 years old who had very large balances remaining because they were barely covering their interest payments. I sought out more information and found this wonderfully informative book. I was fascinated and consumed it within two days. The narrator was well-suited for communicating non-fiction information. The book read like a novel, with no dry spells boring the audience with lists of facts and figures that put you to sleep. Highly recommend this book if you know nothing of the realities of the school debt situation.

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So much more than I expected!

Revisado: 05-01-22

I bought this title quite some time ago and no longer can remember what prompted the purchase. While scrolling through my collection for something the other day, I hit play on a whim. I liked the narrator’s voice immediately. For a short while, however, I wasn’t sure I was going to get into the story as Sam interacted with his coworkers and his family in the opening chapters. Then he woke up and met the other members of the Sidekicks Initiative and the fun commenced! I enjoyed the interplay between our heroes and the personality imbued in each by both the writing and the narration. And you must listen after the end… I absolutely adored the blooper reel!

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The way the Gatsby story should be told.

Revisado: 04-22-22

The author so cleverly weaves magic and Demons into a Gatsby story. It is done so seamlessly that it doesn’t distract from the story of wealth, indolence, xenophobia, and what passed for sophistication in the early part of the 20th century. It’s too bad that the characters were not more likable, because the world they were inhabiting was interesting enough to continue to read more stories involving the protagonist.

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Don’t waste your money

Revisado: 08-15-21

While I appreciate a Will Wheaton performance, he could not save this story. This book has so many plot holes and ridiculous behavioral characteristics of all of the main characters that it was all I could do to finish listening just to see how the story wrapped up. The world may be ending in eight hours! But let’s take time to look around our new living quarters and examine D&D dice rather than spending time preparing for the coming conflagration. Yeah, right. Pass.

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You don’t need children to enjoy this book!

Revisado: 09-03-20

The best thing about this book was the fact that it was not simply one mother’s opinion about her observations in France. She backed up her observations and the secondhand accounts provided to her by American, British, and French parents, with interviews with doctors, teachers, and government representatives. She quotes often from manuals, magazines, books, and studies. The reason that the book is so enjoyable is because she illustrates the theories with stories of real people and their real problems with small children. I have never had children, but I found myself fascinated by the information presented and I wanted to go out and try the techniques on some unsuspecting small people! The narrator also kept the book interesting because her voice was pleasant and the changing points of view were easily recognizable by change of accent.

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Absolutely laugh out loud fantastic!

Revisado: 02-16-20

When I got this book I had no idea what to expect, but I couldn’t have been more pleased with the story, the performances, and the humor in the plot. The dialogue is witty in that very intelligent way that makes you laugh sometimes just a moment after it takes you to realize why it is as funny as it is.

I recommend this 100%.

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Love, love, love this book! Or maybe I love the narrator

Revisado: 09-07-18

I listened to the book twice through- one immediately after the other. Xe Sands is so expressive that you can almost imagine your best friend standing in front of you speaking the lines as if you are living the story! There was never a false moment in the story or Xe’s interpretation of it. Loved the Maine accents too.

This story has dark humor, self- deprecating humor, dreadful high school angst, as well as truly frightening events to round out the main character’s motivations. It asks the question “how do you go home again?” as well as the question “how can you not?”.

I will definitely try another book from this author and I’ll be looking for more books narrated by Xe.

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