Heidi

Great story and great reader

Revisado: 01-16-12

What did you love best about The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs?

I loved this story by Alexander McCall Smith. The main character is hilarious -- so pompous and full of himself, but he gets taken down a peg every now and then. All the other characters are great, too. The story is inventive, has a degree of complexity, holds your attention, and is amusing.

What about Paul Hecht’s performance did you like?

Paul Hecht was PERFECT as a reader! He did all the voices cleverly, he read clearly and caught the mood of the book completely. I enjoyed his reading of all three books in this series. I'm just sorry the series is complete. I think it's McCall Smith at his very best.

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Mediocre at best

Revisado: 10-26-10

I spent a lot of time marveling at how dense this Harvard PhD student was. She had to be hit in the head a million times by obvious things that she should have known just through study in her own field of "expertise." The weak story was made worse by the writing style. The reader was led through excruciatingly detailed renditions of the most mundane things -- just walking into a building and opening a door took minutes of narration. I often lost interest and my mind began wandering, returning some time later only to realize that I hadn't missed a thing. And that postscript!

The strong point for me was the narrator. She did a great job.

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Horse Heaven=Pure Heaven

Revisado: 08-30-09

Jane Smiley demonstrates her brilliance in this book, illustrating similarities between the horses and the people who own, breed, train, and race them. And Shelley Thompson is a truly engaging narrator. It was a great experience!

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