Lady Godiva

Great story. Exhausting narration.

Revisado: 03-17-24

The story’s interesting and captivating. I haven’t read many stories of the Puritans that presents a balanced view of good/sensible people versus punitive/cold practices. It's a heart warming story. However, the narrator sounds half asleep - literally. I had to speed up the reading just to get her pace to reflect the energy of someone who could get off the floor and walk a normal pace. At times, her style was robotic as well, reading with fake staccato worse than what an amateur middle school actor would do. It was weird to hear the lack professionalism. What was the publisher thinking?

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Too long by 50%, ridiculous!

Revisado: 09-04-23

Went on and on and on and on. I stopped caring with 13 hours left. I stopped listening with 8 hrs left. The first and natural place to end the book would have provided a beautiful and rich story. The second layer was tolerable and still a good book. After that pointless. I loved his other book. This one, not so much.

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Very little Hope represented here

Revisado: 07-17-23

I'm traveling to Israel in two weeks and read this book as part of my self education. A full 80-90% of this book focused on conflict: mostly Jew against Jew but also Israel vs the Arab world (mostly Palestine). Ashkenazi vs Mizrahi, ultra orthodox vs everyone else, left vs right, the original settlers vs each new wave of Jewish immigrants, socialists vs capitalists, white Jews vs. black Jews, etc etc. It's incredibly depressing and left me feeling hopeless about humanity in general (If the uniformly persecuted Jewish people cant even overcome differences to love and honor each other, there's no hope for the rest of humanity.)

I truly wish the author spoke more about all the inclusuve policies and technological innovations that have come from Israel and it's amazingly resilient population. She touched on these but too briefly.

Based on the content, the title should be Israel: Land of Conflict and Inability To Get Out of Our Own Way.

I will now look for resources representing Hope as well.

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Sweet story!

Revisado: 03-04-23

Sweet story. Heart warming and just what I needed. I would recommend it for sure

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Love the book. Narrator terrible!

Revisado: 12-12-22

I love Barbara Kingsolver as an author. This is a great story of a difficult time and place - humanely told. The narrator, I'm sorry to say, lacked any affect or any pretense of acting. She simply read aloud and not well. No change of voice to denote the change of protagonist with each chapter. Each chapter was organized around one person's POV with the person's name actually given. It couldn't have been easier for an actor to say, "ok, now I have to use a different voice." It was as if she was told specifically, "Do not act. Do not do anything to reveal emotion through your voice. Do not alter your pace no matter what's happening in the story. Do not think. Just read." you it was that bad. I kid you not!

I'm glad I kept listening bc the story is worth it.

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If you like kidnapping and rape, this is for you.

Revisado: 07-29-22

There should have been a disclaimer about this book. It's very dark. Forced sex acts while being drugged and bound. I wish I never opened it. I loved the series until this book. Beware.

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Performance is excellent

Revisado: 04-23-22

After listening once to her, Juliet Stevenson the performer, I searched other books she did. I chose Middlemarch without realizing it was such a classic. It's long but worth it if you like English period pieces.

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Nowhere near as good as the 1st

Revisado: 04-08-22

The whole thing was a thinly veiled opportunity to lecture through story telling. Although I agreed with the principles, it was tiresome and annoying.

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Absolutely LOVED this book

Revisado: 02-10-22

Makes me want to remove many of the 5 star reviews I've given in the past! They don't hold a candle to this. Masterful job of weaving multiple characters in the story. Great character development. I'm going to see whatesle Amor wrote.

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Everything about this book is terrific!

Revisado: 07-06-21

The voice acting is superb. The story is intricate yet not confusing. Heartwarming and tragic. Makes me want to take back all previous 5 satr rating that can't hold a candle to this.

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