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I really disliked this one

Revisado: 02-14-24

This has all the elements to make a good story, however, everything about this book is really dreadful. It has no life! The reading by the narrator is perfect for the material in his dry as dust style.i would like to hear this story better told.

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Drenched in gore

Revisado: 10-30-23

I hated this an returned it as fast as possible. It just seemed so drenched in gore. I do not understand what people like about this. The world is in a dreadful state right now so when I take a break to read or listen to fiction this is not what I need. Yuck!

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I really enjoy Robinson’s descriptive voice

Revisado: 01-08-20

Not only do we get to travel deep into the Yorkshire dales but travel on an archaic air travel to Toronto. The ending, like many of Robinson’s books, was a bit abrupt but sufficient & finally granny helped poor Katie out;-

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Good in the beginning

Revisado: 12-31-19

But went on and on and became boring. I will neither read nor listen to another by this author. It wasn’t bad exactly, just not for me — what genre is this anyway?

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Very descriptive

Revisado: 12-21-19

I liked this storyline quite well until the very end, when all of the plot lines converged waaay to quickly. Robertson seemed to be ambling along drinking lots of pints and driving through the hills, Dale’s & towns of the west ridings, then murder & other death just cleared up suddenly.
The performance was pretty good. The reader tried to individualize each character with differing accents, tones & pitches, much of it worked well enough, of course the women’s falsetto voices were the least successful.

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Time machine

Revisado: 06-11-19

Sweeps one back in time and place. So much walking, so much air pollution. Very well written and performed.

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Bruce is a better Poet than prose writer

Revisado: 07-27-17

Is there anything you would change about this book?

More descriptive passages. I just think that probably prose, even autobiographical prose is just not Bruce's best form of communication.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

learning something about the culture of the Jersey Shore and how the music business worked at that time.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Bruce Springsteen?

probably not

Did Born to Run inspire you to do anything?

I must confess i have not listened all the way to the end. I just got bored, so you might say I was inspired to move on to other genres.

Any additional comments?

He is a better poet than a prose writer. The stories he tells through his music and songs are far better than this.

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Excellent synopsis of those rascally Julio claudians

Revisado: 05-06-16

Mr Holland is a great story teller. He really brings clarity and insight to this period of Roman history. I only wish I could have heard more from Ovid. The reader does an excellent job of presentation. I look forward to more works both by this author and the reader.

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A bit boring

Revisado: 03-22-16

Strangely, this story flattened sex. I guess this is because the entire story told deals mainly with mechanics rather than emotions. An emotional story of sex would appeal to me much more.
The readers tone, ironic I guess, merely flattened the material even more. A serious study of the researchers, their studies in historical context, and insight into their motivations would have been better. We are strange, multifaceted creatures, always fascinating to ourselves.

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Good to be reminded

Revisado: 01-13-16

This is a really fascinating story well told. I only wish I had images to go with story as well as an outline of events.

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