D.G.

Well written and well read

Revisado: 02-08-22

A compelling story complemented by plenty of jokes and amusing moments. If you've ever played a ttrpg, this story is worth hearing. The narrator has a wide range of voices that I think suit the characters well. I look forward to what I find in the next book.

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Not Amazing

Revisado: 11-12-16

I love political thrillers and this sort of history-based mystery, but I just found the story unexciting and the prose and dialogue repetitive. I got about halfway through the book and just couldn't stand to hear "How would they prevent the United States from the fate of Rome?" one more time. Had to stop.

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I Had to Give Up

Revisado: 04-29-16

I'm not quite halfway and I can't take it anymore. The story just gets more and more ridiculous and not in a fun, amusing way. I keep waiting for the big twist and it seems clear it's not coming. I really enjoy workplace satire, but this is more like a bad, low-grade workplace horror story. Add to that the frequent, out-of-context, juvenile sex scenes and it's just not enjoyable.

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My personal favorite

Revisado: 01-30-15

I love this book, I must have read it fifty times. I bought this audio book so that I could hear my favorite story while on the road or doing the dishes. I instantly fell in love with this book all over again. This definetly went above and beyond my expectations.

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Can't Get Into It

Revisado: 04-15-09

I've stopped listening to this book and come back to it twice now (listening to a couple of other books in between to take a break) and have gotten almost halfway through, but just cannot get into it. There doesn't appear to be any real plotline, just the random interactions of a group of drug-addicted losers who have absurd debates with one another that might be bearable if they were funny at all (but they just come off as pathetic). One of the addicts is an undercover cop who seems confused about what is and is not reality, though this didn't add much drama to the story for me. I find I really don't care what happens to any of the characters and don't know that I'll ever bother to finish the book. After only getting through five hours or so, I'm off to take yet another break with another book.

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Drawn Out and Pointless

Revisado: 07-13-08

This book really felt like a waste of time. All of the characters are uninteresting, average, everyday people, including the highjacker. They're self-absorbed and whiny and it is very difficult, from the first moment, to really care what happens to them. The whole book felt like I was watching some yokel being interviewed on the news and feeling embarrassed to be watching it. The use of September 11th as a backdrop feels cheap, given the shallowness of the characters.

The narrator was okay, though he did make the women awfully whiny, though I never could decide whether that was his fault or the author's.

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Eh

Revisado: 06-04-05

This book definitely had its funny moments and is probably worth reading if you're in the mood for something light that doesn't require you to think much. I just wish I could have sympathised with the protagonist. She is completely willing to do horrible things to get what she wants and doesn't really feel bad about it until someone calls her on it. Even worse, she is extremely quick to judge the actions of those around her even as she does things that are, at times, far worse.

I think it's worth mentioning that there are a couple of semi-graphic sex scenes in this book. I'd avoid it if that sort of thing offends you at all. I wasn't offended myself, but did think it was a bit out of place in this type of book.

The reader is a bit whiny though does a pretty good job on the female characters' voices. The men, however, all have the exact same voice, speak very slowly for no apparent reason, and sound clinically depressed. It reminded me of British actors portraying American characters. They typically seem to believe that speaking in the flattest tone possible produces an American accent. This reader seems to have a similar view on men's voices.

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Astounding Scholarship

Revisado: 06-17-04

This is a wonderful book about an incredible man. It's amazing how much this "everyman" accomplished during his presidency. McCullough's research is amazing. I've read both "Truman" and "John Adams" and both are well worth the unabridged listen. I would love to see McCullough do Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt (both of them), and Kennedy now.

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Horrid

Revisado: 02-17-04

Yes, this author is poetic, at least in his own mind. He is so busy trying to be poetic, he forgets to tell any kind of story. The description of the 1951 baseball game at the beginning is compelling enough, but then he leaps forward 40 years to a character who's first person narration is chiefly composed of snipets of bad dialogue that seem to have been dumped into a blender and then poured onto the page in no particular order. Not only is it almost nonsensical, it's downright boring.

If you're still undecided, I strongly recommend reading the customer reviews on Amazon.com. There are dozens of them and they are very informative. I didn't do so and had to give up after five hours of Mr. Delillo's "poetry."

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Shrill

Revisado: 10-15-03

I don't know how anyone could sit through this audiobook. The narrator is horrible. She's mumbling one minute and shrieking the next. I've tried to listen to it a few times now and cannot get through more than five or ten minutes.

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