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A remarkable book!

Revisado: 04-02-25

This book may go down as one of my favorite audiobooks, and I’ve read a ton of them! It’s so beautifully written, original, expertly paced, and kudos to the narrators who are excellent. I can’t wait to recommend it to another friend who, like me, is fascinated by octopuses.

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Illuminates the Herculean struggle to bring modern art to the general public in the USA

Revisado: 11-21-24

It’s as if we’ve been brought backstage to the art history we may have studied at school. Chock full of fascinating information, beautifully researched and well written.

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Warning: addictive

Revisado: 12-07-22

I’d say unputdownABLE if I had read it as a tangible book, but I didn’t. I read it as a fabulous audiobook. And yes, it’s hard to turn it off.

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A most clever story and superb reader

Revisado: 11-03-21

Fine writing, devilishly clever plot, and one of the finest narrators I’ve ever come across

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Sublime narration, quirky, pertinent tale

Revisado: 06-12-21

A book quite different from his other fiction, but worthwhile and full of authors keen descriptive eye. I tuned out during most passages of detailed scientific analysis but it’s a book for our time. I was really sad when it ended. (I would hear Benedict Cumberbatch read the telephone book, if audible offered it!)

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Superb narration

Revisado: 02-17-21

I recommend this good book read by one of the best narrators I’ve come across.

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Unputdownable blend of satire and entertainment

Revisado: 08-26-20

Hiassen is a past master at his craft, with an instinct for just the right detail that both conveys reality and is hysterically funny. I can't remember a book that made me laugh out loud so often as this book did.
And the satire! What a wonderful plot he wove, with characters who kept doing the darnedest things. My husband listened with me and we listened together through dinner and through the evening, finding it hard to stop it and go to sleep.

And the reader? Heavenly. John Rubinstein seemed born to read this, with his enviable command of accents and gender, and slightly wry yet earnest tone, he was terrific.

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Delicious!

Revisado: 08-06-19

Pairing Nadia May and Muriel Spark was a heavenly event. This beautifully plotted Book could not have found a better reader.

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Excellent book, narrator not so much

Revisado: 06-29-19

Ready to plunge into the mid-20th C NY art world? Then this book’s for you! It takes commitment to read such a lengthy book, but it brings the past to life, and you don’t have to be an art expert to enjoy it. These talented women bucked a sexist art world, a misogyny that only grew more intense as time went on. Gabriel is a fine storyteller.

Stay with it, even if you have trouble with the narrator, as I did. Her nasality, misplaced inflections and mispronunciations grated. Unlike fictional characters, these were real people whose names deserve to be pronounced the way they themselves did.
Don’t let my crankiness keep you away. It’s a great tale.

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Two stories, two responses

Revisado: 01-13-19

Ali Smith is a master of her craft and How to Be Both is masterly, full of nuanced and fascinating characters. The hard copy was published in two versions, half with one narrative at the start, half with the other. I don't know if we audio readers also had two different versions but I preferred reading about the mother/daughter relationship rather than about the life of a Renaissance muralist, even though the two stories interlace.. If you love word play, you'll find that the section on the girl abounds with it, and I ate it up.

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