Veronica (OhYesItsV)

Couldn’t get beyond the narrator’s voice

Revisado: 08-15-20

Narrator’s voice when reading Celestial’s part made her sound feeble and reminded me of a bleating goat. And when reading Roy’s part, he has a slight vocal fry —It was awful couldn’t finish the book.

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What is this book about?

Revisado: 04-24-20

I only made it to chapter 4 and I caught myself thinking for the third time, “What’s this book about again?” It drones on with details on the details about the details and I just can’t take or anymore.

I enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert’s writing style and I LOVED City of Girls, Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love so I thought this book would be no different. Unfortunately that’s not the case.

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Great listen

Revisado: 03-09-20

I give this book five stars. My wife recommended I read this book or listen to it.
This book relates to me in great detail. Being from the inner city in a one parent house hold trying to navigate thru life as a black male. Being one bad decision away from death, jail or complete embarrassment. This book explains choices and hope and helping each other. I will say this to all never give up on yourself. Keep fighting until you can’t fight anymore. We are built for the road ahead.

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Narration sucks

Revisado: 01-14-20

I cant get through this book—the narrators are awful. I had to return it although I would have loved to finish the story—I cant.

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I liked it.

Revisado: 08-24-19

I laughed and cried. Beautifully written with great structure—was a little dicey for the first hour or so but I hung in there and I’m glad it was interesting enough to stick with as my “vacation read”. It turned out to be a charming story of an old woman recounting her coming of age as an unconventional albeit naive teenager in 1940s New York City.

The narrator was probably the best I’ve heard thus far in my years as an audible member. Great tone and inflection without over-acting the dialogue.

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Yawn!

Revisado: 09-17-18

Im returning this book—I gave it a good two hours but I cant take it anymore. Half the time I didnt know what the heck was going on because the book couldn’t hold my attention—the narrator was a little unenthused but not TOO bad.

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Narration is terrible

Revisado: 08-15-17

I liked this story however, I couldn't get past the robotic and almost monotone voice of the narrator.

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Hmmm

Revisado: 04-19-17

I liked this story but I didn't at the same time.

I appreciate the development of the main characters and their relationships to one another. I also appreciate the historical references to a time in which I'd heard very little about and it offered an idea of what life during that time MAY have been like. Then there's the story overall: sections of the story that didn't add any real value to the story were terribly drawn out and seemed as if they'd never end and I found myself becoming bored.


I also found myself confused by the time jumps in regards to "Baby" and that whole "situation" and thought maybe I'd missed something somewhere. I wound up searching through chapters for over 30 minutes to figure out what the hell I'd missed only yo discover I hadn't missed anything at all.

I loved the narrating though as she really put effort into "performing" the book and making clear distinctions between characters.

This book could have easily been 4 hours shorter by cutting out the fillers.

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Beautiful story

Revisado: 01-18-17

This story was entertaining and beautifully written. Finished it in a day and I can't wait to watch the series now. Narrator was great as well.

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Good enough to pass the time

Revisado: 12-07-16

The book could have been improved by omitting some content that seemed to be nothing more than filler.

Other than that, I enjoyed the book as a simple passtime.

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