William P. Mitchell

Over-Dramatized

Revisado: 05-02-23

Very disappointing. The author dramatizes conversations that he could have no evidence for. And the narrator makes it worse in his dramatic reading of something that in itself is dramatic enough. I stopped listening.

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Wonderful book

Revisado: 08-19-21

This is one of the best books I’ve read/listened to in a long while. Memorable characters. A song to human frailty, kindness, and forgiving. And a terrific portrayal of ethnoracial groups in a poor area of Red Hook in conflict and love.

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A tour de force but why bother

Revisado: 11-02-20

I didn’t care for a single character, a bunch of mean spirited rouges. It is well written, but I’d much rather Re-read the Odyssey, which has relevance within its cultural setting.

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A Significant Factual-Interpretative Error

Revisado: 04-01-20

I stopped listening at the discussion of the Nazca Lines in Peru. As an anthropologist who has worked in the Andes for more than half a century, I couldn't believe the author's uncritical acceptance of popular fantasies claiming that the Nazca Lines may have been built by interstellar travelers or that balloons may have been used in order to see the lines. There is no evidence for these assertions, and they demonstrate Little knowledge or understanding of either pre-Columbian or contemporary Peru. Among other matters, Peruvians still draw lines on the earth/sand. It is no big deal. If I can't trust the author on a matter that I am familiar with, I can't trust him in general.

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A Faux experience to create a hook for a book

Revisado: 02-06-19

I disliked the book intensely and only kept reading because it was assigned by s book club

The book lacks insight into cultural origin narratives, pays scant attention to issues of Biblical translations (hey, neither the Hebrew or Christian Biles were written in English). But he got a book out of it. Worthless

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What a Disappointment

Revisado: 11-27-18

I loved Tana French’s earlier novels, so kept listening to The Witch Elm, even as I wanted to stop. The novel is too contrived, asking too many suspensions of disbelief. Most of the characters are unpleasant and hard to like. Toby, the protagonist, is odious from the very beginning. I’m sorry to write this for I had leapt to listen to this new novel of French.

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A disappointment.

Revisado: 03-21-18

I have loved Tana French’s books, but a secret place was a disappointment. The plot was too complicated for an audio version. Too many characters. I also though that the sex talk between 16 year old girls and boys didn’t ring true. I’m sure girls talk that way among themselves, but to boys??! I also did not like the alternating chapters of girls, then the detectives, finding it confusing and hard to keep straight. The female narrator was also poor, speaking in a monotone .

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A Sentimental Mastrpiece

Revisado: 11-04-17

In spite of Its Long digressions, and sometimes because of them, and the need for considerable suspension of disbelief, Le Miserable’s exposition on evil, goodness, Love, and redemption, which reeks with sentimentality, remains a masterpiece. The narration is truly wonderful, brining to life the multiplicity of people in this very long book. I loved it.

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Great writing, but

Revisado: 03-30-17

I loved the dialogue and setting and the story. But I found the theology and saved sections too long and tedious, which is the reSon for my low rAting of the story. That said, Baldwin is an evocative writer.

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Pray, Pray, Pray and when you are tired, she prays again

Revisado: 03-21-17

A nasty woman, unpleasant in her hypocrisy and treatment of others does not rescue this tedious story. Why did I continue listening?
Great narration and the Tudor setting. -

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