A. Sharp

Great book, great narrator

Revisado: 04-14-25

I returned this book when it had a different narrator but this one was great.

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Great Narration

Revisado: 02-23-25

This is one of the greatest narration performances I’ve ever heard. A tour de force.

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I Wish It Were Longer

Revisado: 03-03-24

I’ve read more than 20 Trollope novels and this is one of my favorites. Like the best of them, it’s very meta— the author is constantly stopping the story to give us his thoughts on various aspects of his narrative or his characters or other matters, at one point creating a long compare-and-contrast with one of Dickens’ characters. Also as usual, it’s full of love stories and full of humor. I loved it. (Don’t be fooled by the first few chapters which give the impression it’s going to be a novel about office work.) The narration is perfection.

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Fantastic Narrator!

Revisado: 12-05-23

This is really fun book, especially if you’re familiar with Pride and Prejudice. But it’s the performance of it that I liked the best.

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Perfect

Revisado: 05-09-22

It’s hard to imagine a better narration of a book. Middlemarch is very long and that might put you off. But this version is so beautifully read, and the book itself is so absorbing, that you’ll wish it were longer.

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Perfect

Revisado: 03-04-22

This is the perfect book because it makes you laugh while it’s making you think. When you’re finished, you will want to be a better person and you’ll want Mike Schur to be your best friend.

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Humility

Revisado: 12-28-21

For anyone who thinks this book is just going to be a way to burnish Will Smith's image, it will be a big surprise. He admits to every fear, every mistake, every humiliation. Great stories of course about his career, but this book is a portrait of a man trying to learn, over and over again, how to be kind and how to live a meaningful life.

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Fascinating

Revisado: 08-18-21

This book is enthralling down to the last second. Just as I thought it was winding down, it was winding up. Cheating at cards is not a subject I'm intrinsically interested in, but it doesn't matter. The book is about so much more than that, but if it were only about that I would still recommend it. Superb storytelling on every level.

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Fantastic Imagination!

Revisado: 08-02-21

A terrific mixture of fact and fiction. A true ripping good yarn filled with unforgettable characters and breathtaking adventure. Whatever the audio book version is of impossible to put down. Beautifully narrated, including the juggling of multiple accents. I haven't felt this absorbed and excited listening to a book since I listened long ago to The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Mispronounced Names

Revisado: 04-19-21

This is a great book and beautifully narrated. But whose job is it to find out how everyone's name should be pronounced? Where is the producer? Obviously many if not most of the people who will listen to this book will know the names of the many people Mike Nichols worked with, and it's extremely annoying and distracting to hear those names pronounced wrong. This is a problem with many audio books and the narrators shouldn't put up with it. Someone has to research names like Pakula and Balaban and tell the narrator how to pronounce them. Mike Nichols would have been furious at this lack of perfectionism.

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