Andy Curry

Bad tradecraft.

Revisado: 01-20-20

The agents in the book shouldn’t have made it past page 20. The tradecraft, decisions, and tactics they used were laughable.

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Staggeringly fine performance.

Revisado: 10-06-19

Ruby Dee’s performance is the best I have ever heard in this format. Magnificent work.

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Superb.

Revisado: 08-28-18

I suppose that like many people I assumed I knew the basics of the Dreyfus Affair--catastrophe might be a better description. But I didn't. It is an excellent window to the personal story of Picquart and of many of the Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards. Harris provides sufficient background to fin de siècle France to whet the appetite of any reader who seeks to better understand the era, the people, and the society in which this catastrophe occurred. I cannot recommend this book more highly.

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Perhaps Tuchman's best work.

Revisado: 04-28-18

What made the experience of listening to The Zimmermann Telegram the most enjoyable?

This isn't just history. It reads (Listens) like a political thriller.

What did you like best about this story?

This may be Tuchman's best work. I've read four of her books and this one--perhaps because of the length--didn't bog down in the third quarter.

What does Wanda McCaddon bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I very much enjoyed hearing a woman read this book. So very often history and political thrillers are the exclusive province of men. An excellent reading of this fine book.

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Violent Noir

Revisado: 04-28-18

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The level and amount of violence is disturbing.

What was one of the most memorable moments of March Violets?

The plot is very good.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No.

Any additional comments?

If you like Phillip Marlowe detective stories, this may be good for you--with the caveat that there is a high level of very graphic violence.

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Junk: hagiography, eschatology, & self-promotion.

Revisado: 12-31-17

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

This is not, as the title claims, a discussion of Israel at War. It is a hagiography of Bibi Netanyahu and a Fox News-worthy hit job on Barack Obama. It is, further, a recital of the author's eschatology and a shameless plug for his other books and a non-profit he runs.

Would you ever listen to anything by Joel C. Rosenberg again?

No. Never. Nothing.

What does Adam Verner bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The reader was very good, especially given the ridiculous nature of the writing. I didn't hear a single eye-roll.

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Excellent, with a caveat.

Revisado: 09-03-17

Atkinson's work is terrific. The reader mispronounces the names of well-known battlefields and military terminology.

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Bad Production and Direction

Revisado: 05-08-17

What did you love best about A Fable?

This is generally considered one of Faulkner's lesser works, although he took ten years writing it and said more than once it was his best. Overall, I thought the story was good. There is a very long digression that adds very little and feels like separate story embedded in this novel.

Any additional comments?

The director of this work chose to have the actor read everything in the same voice, no accents for British or French characters, no dialect or inflection for regional differences. Also, there are dozens of words mispronounced. Finally, there are some places early on where the editor//producer failed to properly edit out second takes and we hear the same line repeated.These added together nearly drove me to abandon this book early on. I persisted only because I wanted to follow the plot. If there is another version of this book in Audible I would recommend trying that first.

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Very Good, but...

Revisado: 10-12-16

A very interesting world in which the U.S. didn't enter the Second War and Great Britain fought alone to a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany. The thing is, the alternative history side of this doesn't really make a difference to the murder-mystery plot: It's just atmosphere. Such a shame to create a fascinating world that is simply scenery. There is also a dual narrator structure that affords the reader two views of the events and gives us two protagonists. But it seemed a little frivolous and unnecessary.

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Just the story, please.

Revisado: 08-24-16

One of Greene's less well known novels, it nonetheless features all of the elements of classic Graham Greene: class, religion, government bureaucracy, love and longing, and a struggle between "good" and "evil." A strong reading by Jeremy Northampton is marred by the producer's choice to add musical interludes. Just the story, please.

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