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Proximity to fame

Revisado: 08-28-24

Audio frequently sounded hollow or had a slight echo. This is definitely a memoir of the author’s life with a concentration on the last years of John Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette. You will get great attention to her life which includes her dating/sex life (with wardrobe), and her best friend Frank. The cover photo implied a certain focus which wasn’t there as much as expected. It is the author’s life and is a story about how the closeness to money, social standing and fame helped validate her life. In many respects once that link to John, Carolyn and her best friend were gone her life became more interesting because she was doing it on her own without the high profile assistance and support. What bothered me about the audiobook was the me me me tone/inflection. I had seen the book and didn’t buy it for that reason, but had thought hearing her read it would make me think differently. It didn’t change my quick assessment of the hard copy. I understand needing validation and the reasons we need it as well as the self righteous ways most of us tell ourselves we don’t need it, but the selling point for the book was obviously the John and Carolyn angle.

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Great Content

Revisado: 06-23-24

Very good information told with an in your face approach that many, including myself, need to hear.

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Nice wrap up to trilogy

Revisado: 11-14-23

This trilogy is one of the best ones I have read in a long time. Characters were well written and consistent while the primary story was plausible.

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Not quite what I expected

Revisado: 05-01-23

I read the original book in the 80’s and had several cassettes of Maltz himself talking about Psycho-Cybernetics that came out around that time. Got this title after re-reading the book and was not impressed with the bragging. Did not finish it. Concepts are sound but the manner of discussion did not make me want to keep listening.

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Best Coben book I have read

Revisado: 01-11-23

Most of the Coben books I have read have been great - until the last few chapters which always feel like a forced, quick resolution to finish the book. This one was slower in many ways, but more even throughout the overall story. Steven Weber did a great job.

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Ho Ho Ho

Revisado: 01-07-23

One of the performances I may have ever heard on Audible. If you like Pratchett books and haven’t heard or read this one it does not disappoint.

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Sad part of US History

Revisado: 10-10-22

Audible sales sometimes help me pick up titles I may not normally look to add since I already own the book. This narrator proved oddly effective, given the subject matter as he reads it, is how I would envision the attitudes of the perpetrators - very blunt and matter of fact in their thinking. I grew up in NW AR and have known descendants of the massacre all my life. The Mountain Meadows memorial is one I have seen and known about all my life. It is now over 150 years after the fact and I am still being told the murders were justified by people who have heard the history only from the church side. It happened at at odd time in LDS church and US history and makes for an interesting story of power in the early days of Utah. The extent the church leaders went to to assert and extend their rights as God’s chosen people sound oddly like current political rhetoric. Meanwhile, The victims are still a minor footnote in history that most people have never heard of the event.

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Best Cobb Biography

Revisado: 05-25-22

Loved the narrator. It got into what seemed like the minutia of Cobb’s baseball career while telling his story and how it related to the myths surrounding his playing days. It did discuss his personal life, but that was not the focus and how it was integrated in brought a nice flow to the story.

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Loved It

Revisado: 05-01-22

It took a chapter or so to get involved in the era if you will, but overall it was I loved it. The family dynamics as presented was very plausible. You got a sense of why he became the king he did without going in the extreme in any direction. The author’s summary was very succinct and matched my thoughts while listening which makes it all the more worth a second listen. One of the best biographies I have heard in quite a while. Have never listened to this narrator before - she was really good.

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Good Dual Bio

Revisado: 07-04-21

The book itself was good. I have read a lot about Plath and a few books on Sexton, but as a dual biography, certain aspects of the shared, but different histories of both women were highlighted for me.

I was excited to start listening but the narration was consistently misguided. First off, it felt like every sentence was a performance, which did not fit the content. The good part of that was it was not monotone, so I continued listening. Mispronounced words and names were not frequent but the same ones were off each time. The most obvious was three pronunciation variations of Adrienne Rich’s first name.

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