Charlotte Harrell

The intelligence of the characters and the life necessity of Love.

Revisado: 04-13-25

I have been thrilled by the unexpected wisdom of the major characters, and the things we could learn from them. Also there is great human kindness ❤️ and siblings being parents to younger knds.

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An amazing number of deeply moving people come to life in a rich Southern culture on a South Carolina island!!**

Revisado: 02-28-25

I loved it all and Hope Clark's narrating voice, healing my loneliness for hours and hours of life-widening action and deeply moving relationships. The necessary shock and violence of the genre has the effect of waking one's soul to the call to battle against deceits and powers of evil.

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The depth of chapters and variety of incidents

Revisado: 01-01-25

These mysteries are culturally rich and depict highly educated people. One of these is poet-investigator, Ada. Dalgliesh

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Fine, unobtrusive, narration.

Revisado: 12-16-24

The famed P.D. James, long, intriguing story, with depth of characters to make you care, and jolting events and outcomes.

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the incredible voices of the soldiers telling one or two sentences each. Like having new members in my family!

Revisado: 09-18-24

it is a masterpiece of human military history!! Heartbreaking. error ridden enormous assault, but our men and allies made us proud by their courage and competence!!* cost,? 40,000 humans. A long grief..History brings bad things sometimes, even to win better ones!!!**

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This Story in Clark's fine series could have Used a Caution, that it contains a deeply shocking murder scene.

Revisado: 05-27-24

Hope Clark has the perfect voice for her character, Caroline Slade,. It held my attention through rich hours of listening. However, what happened to Cricket totally shocked me out of all proportion to this kind of location oriented, soft seeming southern mystery. I was so stunned at the image that confronted Slade and us!!!! that I quit the story and tried to find other 'reading " in its place. When I recovered my nerve, I wanted to know how it ended. The climactic scene was amazing, but did not clearly relate to the identity of the killer. That came as a total anti-climax. Also, I could not keep Cricket's mother in character for I would have thought ber grief inconsolable, and no cozy pound cake time was imaginable between her and Slade to me. The best part was the ending in Wayne's arms, for Slade and us. In no other murder mystery have I ever met a worse scene of rape and torture, and I hope I never shall again!!**

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A Warm Story for a cold winter in Georgia

Revisado: 01-17-23

This story went with me on my phone, day and night, just such a comfort. The language, the characters, all came through the narrator's British accent, so pleasantly. I cared about everyone, in all their complexities, which Trollope revealed thru their behaviors and interactions . After all the dramas, the concluding conflict concerned an old gardener driven to tears over a barrowful of manure, and one dear jilted beauty pleading his case for him and setting all to rights in Allington.

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As satisfying. almost, as a Dickens novel,.

Revisado: 12-21-22

At first, it moved slowly, but I kept coming back. I had finished all of Dickens" novels , and I could not bear the long dissection of some irrelevant to me, news broadcast!!** Bitcoin, for heaven's sake!!! And the reader of Anthony Trollope was especially easy to listen to for hours. What peace those hours of story brought me! It isn' Dickkens, but it is good for being set similarly, so one settles in, knowing there are many more works to hear, from Trollope's famed Barcetshire. Did you know his mother was a writer whose earnings saved his father from bankruptcy and poverty!!!** Way, way before women got the vote in America!!!

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Enthralling, Daring Adventure , Mental +Physical!

Revisado: 12-10-22

Read it in Outside when it came out. Total revelation of this life or death sport on Everest! Life altering for this writer. Krakauer as both literary climber and mountain climber of great skill and heart. Now alive again in narrator's art on Audible. I could move a mountain in chores while hearing this intense and thrilling suspense and drama and Love Story!!!**

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Thrilling, Splendid, Except Ending Chapters

Revisado: 08-11-20

Tolstoy's human and humane characterizations, even one of a little, blue-gray dog, delight and intrigue me. Natasha's falling for seduction breaks my heart in the 1956 Film, produced by Dino De Laurentius, and directed by King Vidor, brilliantly done, with Audrey Hepburn as the vibrantly beautiful and intelligent young Natasha, and Henry Fonda as Pierre, Mel Ferrer as Prince Andrew. It is wonderful in the book, to have each of the male characters intimately portrayed, with inner feelings, heroism, and foibles. Tolstoy takes the trouble to give each of the final marriages: Natasha to Pierre, Princess Mary to Nicholas, an understanding portrayal of the conflicts and resolutions between each couple, and the novel itself seems to me to end with Prince Andrew's tragically fatherless son, dreaming of an entity that seems to be that father, and by day, evincing in himself some extreme sensitivity that draws him to adore Pierre, just as Prince Andrew had done. Of all these things I could give a detailed review of Tolstoy's masterful details. But the one thing that has bewildered me in this excellent Amazon Classics production, is the inclusion of those final four chapters of pure exposition and philosophizing that, to me, do not present as literary fiction at all. In the abridged version of the book I have at hand, (not one that says, Book One and then Book Two, as yours does)--the book ends with the little Nicholas dreaming of his father, who died in the war. To me, that is also, where novelized fiction ends, and the final four chapters I could not even listen to, in full, as they made my head spin with circumlocutions, and made me thirst for more of the fulsome recreation of an historically real world, peopled by characters done with great feeling and understanding by their author. I offer my review mainly to ask that question, in bewilderment--have those final four chapters always appeared in abridged versions of the book? Do they come from the original, multi-volume edition of it,, or what? Oh, and this narrator, Edoardo Ballerini, I could listen to forever, even, if I thought them useful, to those philosophizing chapters.

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