Denise Kupiszewski

Difficult to tell who is speaking with narrator

Revisado: 11-11-22

Not only that, it was hard to get into the story. Gave up after five chapters.

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New Narrator okay, but 'Danny's' voice needs work.

Revisado: 11-11-22

New narrator makes Danny Drunk sound like Cheech crossed with a surfer dude.
Please fix.
Story is good continuation in series.
Hopefully Drunk gets a bit more mature and less whiney as it continues!

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another damsel in distress

Revisado: 10-10-22

Sadly, the adventures of treasure/archeological finds and flying restored classic water landing planes have all but disappeared from the series.
The original premise was intruiging, but has devolved from someone struggling to return and redefine his life after losing his company, his family, and rebooting his life as owner/pilot in a flight charter service in the Florida Keys, to a caricature man being led around by the nose by yet another 'beautiful' woman.
Now the books are all about finding, helping, bedding (foolish) women and island hopping in the Caribbean while using 'friends' resources to get by.
Hope the author revives this character/series, but this reader is done with this current (boring) Buck Reiley.

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Title has nothing to do with story.

Revisado: 08-23-22

Enjoyable read, good narration, and good characters. But not a guide to murder nor a tourist trap.

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Monotone narration

Revisado: 11-08-18

Couldn't get past 3rd chapter, narrator is monotone. does voices well, but makes it difficult to get into story.

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However...

Revisado: 04-04-18

Writer needs Thesaurus. 'However' and 'never the less' begin just about every fifth or sixth sentence.

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narrator needs some coffee

Revisado: 11-22-17

Read in such a languid tone, the story suffers. It sounds like narrator is about to fall asleep.

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poor narrator

Revisado: 04-20-17

The book sounds like a great read, but narrator puts you to sleep. Better suited for a Kindle or print version... or better narrator.

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It is pronounced 'gah-raj' not 'graj'.

Revisado: 03-08-16

The narrator annoyingly mispronounces the word 'garage', and does a poir job with men' s voices.

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Saleman Seeks Buyer For His Sexual Fantasy

Revisado: 03-03-12

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The story of a frustrated salesman who fantasizes of having anonymous sex with women through a wall, yet yearning to see their unaffected faces. He manages to sell the idea to a business, calling the women 'lightning rods' in order to provide top salesmen relationship-free, faceless sex through the wall of a handicap bathroom stall in order to reward their success with sexual release. What could make this a 4 or 5-star listening experience? A better story and an interested narrator.

What was most disappointing about Helen DeWitt’s story?

Most disappointing is the entire premise of Helen DeWitt's story. She misses the mark by miles if she intended this as a satire.

How could the performance have been better?

The narration is delivered in a monotone manner which not only helps illustrate the characters and storyline as flat and uninteresting, but also gives the listener the impression not even the narrator is interested in the story.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Lightning Rods?

If I could play editor, I would not have wasted resources on recording this book when there are thousands of better stories that would be far more entertaining and better written. I would have also not hired the narrator, or at least given him intravenous espresso to make him sound awake.

Any additional comments?

Lightning Rods is not an enjoyable read. At best, it is not even a satire. Sophomoric storyline that could only appeal to immature college frats, and a narration that makes one question the selection process of book narrators, are the main reasons I would not recommend this book to anyone.

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