Carol Albers

Simply perfect!

Revisado: 04-29-25

Gore Vidal never disappoints, Captivating throughout, Wide in scope, imaginative and fresh execution of familiar material. Thoroughly enjoyable…
and the narrator is brilliant

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Brilliant, as usual!

Revisado: 03-27-25

David Sidaris addresses it all, from the trials of aging, personal loss and our broken political scene with his typical irony and humanity, and somehow keeps us laughing at it all…Thank god for this brilliant man!!!

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Puerile

Revisado: 09-24-24

Redundant ,boring and puerile, but maybe a good book for adolescents who are struggling with eating disorders.

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Narcissistic

Revisado: 08-30-24

Sounds like she had lots of good counseling, and she shares every morsel with us…

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Not for me

Revisado: 01-12-23

Didn’t seem on a par with his previous work- Liked all the other Ivan Doig recordings, but just couldn’t get into this one.

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Narration a disappointment

Revisado: 08-17-22

Narration brings this otherwise excellent Frazier book down a disappointing degree. Clearly delivered and well-articulated, it is understandable, but that’s the best that can be said of it.

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What did Annie Dillard think of this narrator?

Revisado: 11-13-20

Annie Dillard, certainly one of America's uncontested BEST authors, is always remarkable reading. Likewise the audio versions: Her An American Childhood is phenomenal, as is The Mayfield's. So I was very excited to purchase The Abundance audiobook...
Unfortunately, the narration is just so difficult for me to listen to that I couldn't get through it! So I bought the book to read, instead, and of course it as excellent as one would expect from Annie Dillard's pen.
Generally I've been amazed at the quality of narration with the selections on Audible!
Maybe it was just me, or the contrast with the (excellent!) naration for the previous books, but I was so disappointed with this selection! I returned to it numerous times, trying to get past the aggravating narration, but wasn't able to even finish the first chapter! (Well, I listen as I fall asleep at night, so I might have "heard" more,, but I certainly didn't LISTEN to it!) (ZZzzzzz...)

I'd like to return it, but I've had it in my library for a long time, thinking that I should be able to get past the narration, that maybe in a different setting or a different mood it would strike me differently.
Nope; never happened.
Truly disappointed on this, and surprised to be so!

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Re-re-re-re-dundant!

Revisado: 11-13-20

Great concept, BUT not worthy of a full-length book. Feels like I wasted a credit here...

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Wish I had a better review to offer...

Revisado: 11-04-20

...but the plot is just so puerile and predictable!
The narrator is a favorite, and if you missed him for Sara Baum’s “Spill Simmer Falter Wither” you’re in for a treat! But the material in this case doesn’t work for me...too bad.

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Don’t bother

Revisado: 10-02-20

The only writing in this work of any merit are the direct quotes from Pirsig. The rest reads like a puerile imitation.
I accidentally touched the link for this when trying to order the original, but thought it might be worth a listen since it landed in my library.
It wasn’t.
The narrator deserves a higher score, but couldn’t rise beyond the confines of the script...

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