Melissa

Mind-numbingly boring

Revisado: 12-19-22

I didn't even finish this book. I tried three times to keep going, but the first few hours were a total snoozefest. My attention kept wandering. The first few books in this series were entertaining.

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A slow fire...fizzling

Revisado: 09-13-21

I finished A Slow Fire Burning about a week ago and I'm already forgetting all about it. Lackluster is a good word for this book.

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Just Okay

Revisado: 08-07-20

Some of these short lessons are quite interesting, but there is little help with the pronunciation of the more difficult phrases. I'm in the car when I'm listening and sometimes can't discern what letters I'm hearing. Slow down the examples a bit too. What's the rush? No naughty words. Hey, I want to learn the naughty words too!

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Just what I needed

Revisado: 06-11-19

Just what I needed for pre-moving week. Something easy on the ears/uncomplicated and fun to listen to while I was packing and running all over town. I could stop and start again without having to remember complicated names and scenarios. Wish I could find another like this one.

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All over the place

Revisado: 03-19-19

What did I really expect with Book #28? I've followed Agatha for more than 15 years. I find her character to be amusing and the audio books are really easy listening. This book was not one of the better installments. The author even changed the first name of a long-standing character, which really irritated me. I found the story to be all over the place. As for narration, I like Alison Larkin. When I first began the series, it was narrated by Donada Peters. Somewhere along the line, narration was taken over by Penelope Keith. I like Larkin better than Keith, who made Agatha sound too uppity. Larkin sounds a bit like Peters...who I think of as the "real Agatha."

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More YA than anticipated

Revisado: 01-23-19

Not quite as good as (and quite a bit more YA than) the first book by this author. Overall, enjoyable with the last 3 hours being suspenseful and worthy of binge-listening.

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Count me IN for anything Ottessa Moshfegh!

Revisado: 01-23-19

What the????? There was absolutely no plot beyond this crazy woman attempting to drug herself into oblivion for a year, convinced that this would somehow be the equivalent of reformatting her hard drive. We follow her in and out of sleep, her psychiatrist's office, the bodega, pharmacies, blackouts, day tripping, night tripping, etc. We look to see what's lurking under the bed. No plot? Why did I keep listening? Actually, I couldn't stop! The narrative was hypnotic, sometimes disgusting, and darkly (very darkly) humorous. The character drove the bus, even with her eyes closed. Moshfegh can write a marvelously repugnant character like few others. This book was ALMOST as good as EILEEN. Count me IN for anything by Ottessa Moshfegh.

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Perfect haunted house story

Revisado: 10-30-18

I would've taken this book to be a gothic ghost story if I didn't already know it was written only recently. This was a treat.

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Eye roll

Revisado: 10-30-18

Lame. Glad it was free and under an hour long. Maybe I'll go home and churn out a story just like this in an hour.

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Meh

Revisado: 10-16-18

Take it or leave it. The excitement factor was low and the predictability factor was high. Thankfully, it isn't very long.

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