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Awful narration

Revisado: 03-23-25

The narrator overacts,"performing" as if the protagonist is a knowing, world-weary character from chick lit. No lightness, no bemused, wry understatement, intelligence, irony, melancholy--the true notes of the novel. Huber, like many American audio actors narrating novels by women, is simply not literary enough to take on a literary novel. She lacks even the vocabulary. I dropped out when she read the word "affectation," as "affection."

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Wise, often humorous memoir of illness

Revisado: 03-01-24

I loved this funny, modest, probing account of a novelist's bout with cancer, from the moment she finds a lump in her armpit, to the end of medical treatment. Composed of short essayistic segments with wry titles (e.g. "What I Wanted to Say to the Doctor" "My Own Private Hypochondria" "I Got Sick and Then I Got Better"), it's also about her joyful second marriage, family, work, and response to Susan Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor." Despite the subject matter, it's never depressing or egocentric. Benedict comes across as someone with the wisdom and honesty you'd want in a friend.

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Ghastly distortion of one character's voice

Revisado: 04-11-22

I've just started, and while the main narration is good, there's an unlistenable distortion in her performance of "Wiry Ben," to the point that if Wiry Ben returns in the next chapters, I may have to leave off listening.
It's as if the recording in his dialogue has been sped up to Alvin and the Chipmunks speed, though without any of their charm.
Did a producer do this deliberately? It sounds like a vandalization.

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Wonderful book & narrator is the best

Revisado: 02-02-20

This is a brilliant book, and I like the narrator's delivery so much that i'm looking for another book narrated by him.

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