Don D. Jacobson

Some pronunciations were an embarrassment

Revisado: 09-30-23

Overall the performance wasn't bad. However some of the pronunciations, particularly in Hebrew and Yiddish come out were so far off base as to being an embarrassment. How hard can it be to get it right? Even some of the English was catastrophically bad.

The story dragged on a bit. There's a lot of weaving in and out where it just got boring then the parts were it was interesting were not developed enough.

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Stellar

Revisado: 02-01-23

It hooked me from the beginning and held me through
the end. you can't ask for much more than that, Can you?

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Way Too Convoluted

Revisado: 01-26-21

I kept listening, primarily just to hear more about Israel. The performance was very weak, making the protagonist seem much more like a child, peripherally mocking the horrors of the onset of dementia. On the whole characters are poorly developed. Zvi's children are distant, selfish and condescending at best, having picked that up from different aspects of their controlling mother. The most basic Hebrew words are mispronounced while more complicated ones are pronounced correctly. It looks like somebody was just lazy. How hard would it be to get an Israeli to read this?

And the supposed main idea of the book, the tunnel, just does not hold my interest as a main idea the way it's written. The characters surrounding it don't create buy-in for me. The issues surrounding them go in 100 different directions. They lack focus. And that ending was a shocker.

It all seems like a high school student's outline for a book he or she might want to write someday but never gets to put together properly and weed out the stuff that doesn't belong.

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Exceptional!

Revisado: 09-14-20

I loved every minute of this book. The narrators were all astonishing, completely believable both with regard to accent and character. I had a hard time stopping the story when I needed to. As a teacher, I related so completely to Benny's story and those of her students that it was painful at times and heartwarming at others. As a reader and thinker in this day and age, I was swept up and both angered and touched by Hannie's masterfully told story. I want to listen to this book again and again. (I apologize if I misspelled the names, but since I listened to the audio version rather than reading a hard copy I don't know how they are spelled!)

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