Judith Seaboyer

A novel that lives up to its fine title

Revisado: 07-02-24

A beautifully rendered family narrative, moments of love and kindness and happiness alongside sadness and careless cruelty. Satisfying!

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Hooray for Juliet Stevenson

Revisado: 11-15-22

Austen’s novel doesn’t require a review, though if buoy haven’t read it I recommend you do! Juliet Stevenson’s reading is clear and deeply intelligent. Reminds me why Audible books are such a joy.

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Jenny Agutter

Revisado: 07-14-18

Agutter is a reader worthy of Austen. She reads clearly and with intelligence. Choose this version!

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A fine reworking of The Winter's Tale, but ...

Revisado: 05-30-17

Where does The Gap of Time rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Hard to say. I like the narrative--the novel is a lovely reworking of Shakespeare's wonderful odd pastoral romnance the Winter's Tale, but the narration is mixed, and much of it is awful, irritating.

What did you like best about this story?

The narrative and the weirdness of the genre that is romance.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of the narrators?

I don't know. There are several narrators. Perdita is ghastly, as is Xeno (Polixenes), as is Pauline (Paulina). Perdita's voice is squeaky and irritatingly childlike for a 16-year-old (or is she 18?). Her Southern American accent struck me as unconvincing, but it's not as bad as Xeno's upper-class English twit accent/tone. I stuck it out because I wanted to know what happened, but my advice would be choose the print version for this one. Pity.

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Best Donna Leon so far

Revisado: 07-07-12

What did you love best about Beastly Things?

As usual, Leon addresses a political issue. This time it's the inhumane killing of animals for food. Very powerful.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Beastly Things?

The journey into the abbatoir--like Dante's Hell.

Have you listened to any of David Colacci???s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Not sure.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I almost wept at the ending. Touching and powerful.

Any additional comments?

Donna Leon's best yet. Exciting storyline, Brunetti is growing older gracefully, and the book has lots of political punch. Don't miss it!

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heartwarming!

Revisado: 08-03-11

I had read A Cat in Paris, and downloaded its sequel, A Cat Abroad, for my aged mother, who has recently had to leave her home and go into care. She LOVED this book--it brought some sunshine into her life at a time that was looking gloomy.

My mother has been a great reader all her life but her failing eyesight means she is dependent on Audible to keep up with what's being published. She's a very smart critic, so if she says A Cat Abroad is great, I feel I can pass on her opinion with confidence.

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Aimed at the intelligent reader

Revisado: 01-30-11

This works for those who have studied literature at university, and for what Virginia Woolf called "the common reader." Catherine Elkins is truly a wonderful teacher. I too would like to see lots more Modern Scholar lectures on Audible.

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Perhaps McEwan's best novel...BUT

Revisado: 11-23-10

Be warned that the last 39 pages are missing. Or they were from my download. A great pity because in my view this is McEwan's finest novel, and it this version is brilliantly read. So wait until Audible confirms the whole text is available. (I've downloaded literally hundreds of audible books, so I don't think it's me.)

It's a superbly constructed page turner that discusses good and evil, and juxtaposes the rational with the passionate, even the spiritual. It's a novel about individual loss, cruelty, love, happiness, contentment, played out against memories of Nazism and the Holocaust, and the failure of communism.

Its evocations of place, particularly the Causse of Southern France, are to die for.

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What a superb novel

Revisado: 07-29-10

In haste... I can't think when I was so swept away by a novel. A glorious play on the idea of narrative--history, fiction, the fictionality of history, the truths that the very best and most imaginative fiction can convey. I was hooked from the beginning, swept along by the story, but the prose is sos fine that I kept skipping back to replay a paragraph here, a paragraph there. I loved the characterisation of Kahlo and Trotsky, and of the protagonist. I tried to read The Poisonwood Bible years ago and I'm not sure I finished it, but The Lacuna is a masterpiece.

And what made it perfect for me was Kingsolver's reading. Not often a writer is also so fine a performer.

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Wonderful lecture

Revisado: 04-29-10

Robert Polhemus is a foremost Dickens scholar, and this lecture is exemplary in every way. Astute, witty, generous. I loved it. Wish Audible provided more academic lectures of this standard.

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