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This audiobook is boring...!

Revisado: 05-22-20

Joi Lansing’s early death (37) was a tragedy. She was talented and beautiful and should have been a bigger star.

BUT the narrator is very hard to listen to and sounds like a drone. The story itself is also difficult: it comes across as uninterestingly written. Hollywood biographies are my favourite kind of book, so I really did try and stick with this one but I gave up half way through. Maybe the story got better second half but I’d had enough. I would have exchanged it if I could.

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Sammy's take on things

Revisado: 04-29-16

Well, I can honestly say I was never a fan but I do appreciate the vast talent he was. I was keen to learn a little more about the man himself.

This story of his life so far, to 1965, was not a tell all. I think it is the version Sammy thought people should know. His version of why he didn't attend the JFK inauguration celebrations was not true, according to Kenndy's staff and Old Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra.

No doubt about it, SD was, whilst a great performer, a real bighead and some folks thought he was a real pain in the ass and he litters this tale with constant reminders to the reader/listener and others who were around him with what real big superstar he was. I like long biographies and autobiographies. This is not the tell all I hoped it would be and his friend, and co-author/narrator is often moved to tears it seems. He felt a deep affection for SD that is clear.

However, to me, through this book I see Sammy as a greedy and often charmless man and I never felt any empathy with him, which surprised me after listening to this. I learned that after this book was written he cheated on his wife Mai with several others and that was surprising considering the vow he made at the end of the book to always keep a smile on her face. He let her down and his children too. Thankfully, before he died they did make their peace I believe.

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Wonderful ...!

Revisado: 02-19-16

I love Nevil Shutes work, and this is my favorite of his. I heard this story years ago in England and wanted to hear it told again, as before, by the wonderful Robin Bailey. Without doubt, in all my years of listening to audiobooks, I think that Robin's voice is the most outstanding and easy to listen to. This story is well rounded and I like the way it flows. Some old fashioned derogatory terms used in bygone days to describe aboriginal Australians are, to us today, a little hard to hear but are very much indicative of the day and part of that world. I would recommend this story of bravery and love in WW2 and the years following to anyone. Anything narrated by Robin Bailey, whom I would occasionally see in South West London in the 1970s, is worth listening to. Great stories have been, for me, spoiled because of the narrator. You get the very best of both worlds with this production.

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A titillating and delightful insight....

Revisado: 02-12-16

I love Kitty Kelley's work and this is about a far and truthful insight I believe you're going to get. Riveting from beginning to end, I found the only thing to irk me a bit was the narrator's occasional mispronunciation, (Al, as in the word pal, thorp. Diana Spencer's home of Althorp should have been pronounced All-throp). A slight oddity, I accept, but that's just how we pronounce it here. I found a few of these. Apart from a few of these little slip ups in the narration - which would never have bothered the reader, only the audiobook listener - I loved The Royals and couldn't stop listening to it. I think though the exploits of the Duke have been underplayed, but, at the risk of making the story too much about him, I suppose the finished product is well rounded and very entertaining.

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