Barbara

PERFORMANCE extraordinaire

Revisado: 12-26-20

Finished this in 2 days. Couldn’t stop.
It’s a good solid story with interesting unusual and believable characters and a story could in no way anticipate. Kathleen wilhoite should get a prize for this narration. An astounding variety of voices. At this time I wanted to laugh. I googled novel funny and this came up. I was not disappointed

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Love life art

Revisado: 10-15-20

I had no idea what I was getting into with this book! From the beginning I was charmed by the narrator, the observations, the characters. I just wanted to spend more time with them. Very like those in the crowds that gather to see the artist sit, present to each in turn, for 75 days. It’s quite a journey.

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Utterly Satisfyingly

Revisado: 07-08-20

Wow. Just finished this after a false start over a year ago. This book takes attention to sort out the two story lines. A Turk and a camel Texas 1865 and a woman in Arizona territory 1890something. Not for bedtime reading. Characters all unique compelling. Situation described in detail never before encountered. Worth all the attention

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Something totally new

Revisado: 12-09-19

Malcolm Gladwell has done it in this audiobook he has has created something that is so far beyond the conventional formats of nonfiction writing and audio books. That a totally new form of in-depth, vivid, and dramatic exploration of the theme of how challenging it is to truly understand each other in the modern world. I’m looking forward to hearing more explanations like this.

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Narration brings out the sparkle

Revisado: 05-10-18

Delightful love story and homage to music. The narrator brings the characters alive in a charming way. Good job!

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Good read

Revisado: 07-22-17

I love Murikami anyway and was in the mood for one of his quirky stories and this satisfied perfectly. I love how his mystical elements are never explained but make sense in terms of the story. The reader was great! Listened straight through in just a couple of days.

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Beautiful, Fresh, I love the characters

Revisado: 08-07-15

A friend recommended this novel to me and I am so happy she discovered it!
It is a good thing the author read this--she has a beautiful voice--but especially because she is fluent in English AND Japanese--not that you need to know the Japanese words, but there are a few and many characters and the words are beautiful in her mouth.
The characters include a Japanese American writer living on the west coast of Canada, a young woman raised in California who moves with her family to Tokyo as a teenager--a very difficult time, her great grandmother who is a 90 something Buddhist nun, mother to a WWII kamikaze pilot.
Enjoy, enjoy.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 04-19-15

I had high hopes for this novel as I loved Water for Elephants, thus the disappointment. Why? It was a story that held my interest. A small town in Scotland during WWII was new territory for me. The local characters were facsinating and their voices were interesting and distinctive. But, the three wealthy American young people at the center of the story had very annoying voices. This was a reflection of their ignorance and privilege, yes. But even the first person narrator was read in a breathless kind of voice that I just didn't want to hear anymore, even as she changed in the course of the book to a sympathetic character. If you can get used to the voices, there is an interesting gothic sort of story here.

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Boring

Revisado: 01-21-15

I tried. Stoner is a passive child, a passive college student, has few interactions with others and we know little of his inner life. The narration may actually be brilliant--mirroring the disinterest of the character, and maybe he did the best he could with the material.

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Perfect Narration--I didn't want to stop listening

Revisado: 08-20-14

The narrator did such a good job on this book--I wanted to keep listening just to hear that voice. And I enjoyed so many of the sentences--pleasing alliterations and word combinations. A good story, too, but the telling & reading were the hook.
Enjoy! Oh yes, I love hearing about food, too.

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