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Listening to Gabriel feels like balm for my soul.

Revisado: 07-24-23

I love Ireland. I’ve been there several times. It’s an enchanting place. All the family on my mother’s side - the Walshes and Murphys - were born there, and not many of them emigrated to the United States from there. Sadly, I only knew one grandmother, who died when I was a teenager. I wish I could talk to her now. There are so many things I’d love to to ask her. Something about listening to Gabriel talk about his early life touches me profoundly and I could listen to his beautiful lilting accent forever.

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wonderful!

Revisado: 06-24-17

I enjoyed every minute of this book. Listening to Al, I felt slightly less despairing. I might have to listen again to brighten these bleak days for however long they last. Thank you, Senator.

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Lovely story

Revisado: 08-25-15

Dear Ove just wanted to be left alone to check out - literally - but his annoying neighbors just kept interrupting his plans. Try as he might, these irritating people would not let him be. Just as he was ready to exit to join his beloved wife, they kept needing things from him.

This was a skillfully crafted peeling-the-onion story that revealed a complex, ultimately lovable character who tried his best not to be, but failed spectacularly. I loved this book. Very funny, touching and memorable. And the reader was perfect.

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Absolutely gripping narrative but...

Revisado: 08-21-15

Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety, but this was narrated HORRIBLY. Every time this reader mispronounced a name (hint: consistently) it took me out of the story, and toward the end I was screaming at the narrator, "it's RuckELShaus, you moron!" Even worse was his botched Kissinger "accent." His delivery was overly dramatic, as though the story wasn't horrifying enough; his Nixon voice was like a cartoon villain.

Seriously, who gave the job to this reader? It can't have been the author. His story was beyond riveting, but the narrator nearly ruined it for me.

Most of the many books I've listened to had adequate to brilliant narration. But some I've had to stop listening to because of a bad narrator.

Okay, rant over!

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Impressive

Revisado: 05-26-15

Beautiful writing, suspenseful plot, had that un-putdownable urgency to find out what happened. And the narrator did a very adequate job. BUT why on earth didn't he have a southern accent? You don't set a location in a very specific place with lots of local references and then hire a reader without a trace of an accent from that place! Good grief. Do better next time, whoever-picked-this-reader!

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MIddling Anne Tyler

Revisado: 03-25-15

I've read every AT book since Morgan's Passing. Some I have loved, like Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Others were just okay. It began to feel like I was reading the same book over and over. Not because of the Baltimore setting, but because her wonderfully crafted and flawed characters seemed to stay stuck in their dysfunction, never learning anything that would make their lives better. It got to be frustrating. Not that I needed every ending tied up in a pink bow, but give me a little sense of the evolution in thinking and growing in her characters.

This book was pretty uneven, dragging in spots. Some plot lines were great and I would have liked more of, like Junior and Linnie Mae's early days. Denny's storyline meandered in not very interesting directions. And I wish someone would have really let him have it about his popping in and out of everyone's lives when it suited him!

Finally, the narrator left me cold. Her precise schoolteacher diction just wasn't right for this book.

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Perfect antidote for midwinter blues

Revisado: 02-06-15

These books are an unalloyed delight! The author gets right up to the edge of cloying and frivolous but never goes over the line. There is an underlying intelligence in Georgie that, along with her ebullient good cheer, makes her irresistible. And can we talk about Katherine Kellgren? Her mastery of all the accents, each one distinct and recognizable, is genius. No one should ever read these books when this brilliant narration is available to make it doubly enjoyable.

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Give up on audiobook - get the book!

Revisado: 11-06-14

There's nothing I can add to everyone else's comments about the bad narration and truly awful teen-speak. I'm a little over halfway through, and I'm going to the library on the off-off chance that it is available in hardcover. I am interested in this story. Really, this horrible performance is inexcusable.

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Does Ralph Cosham have a fan club?

Revisado: 09-25-14

Like everyone else, I loved this book when I read it to my children years ago. It is one of the most brilliant books I've ever read.

It was even better to listen to under Ralph Cosham's steady, comforting, brilliant narration. He subtly renders each rabbit's voice and personality perfectly. And his accents for non-lapine characters, especially Kehaar the Norwegian seagull, were hilarious yet somehow moving.

I confess I was already a huge fan of his because of his flawless inhabiting of the character of Inspector Gamache in the Louise Penny mysteries. I may be a grandmother, but I still have a crush on Ralph Cosham!

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A real page turner, but...

Revisado: 07-11-14

I enjoyed this story. It kept me on the edge of my seat. The reader was excellent. My only problem was how clueless the main character seemed throughout the first half of the book. She never seemed to ask herself why the police were questioning her, why strange things were happening, why she couldn't reach her husband. It's as though on some subconscious level she knew but didn't want to know, which is a hard premise to swallow when she is a therapist who wrote a book called "You Should Have Known." This made the book less than great in my mind, even though it was a fun read.

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