Daniel A.

Made for audiobook

Revisado: 02-25-25

I fit in the category of, occasionally enjoy classical music but cant tell most musicians apart besides pieces I know, and generally dont know anything about the composers. Audiobook was the perfect medium for this, interspersed music with stories about Chopin's life and firsthand accounts of those around him. It demystified Chopin for me and let me appreciate his music in a new way.

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Many passages to really think about, terrible audiobook

Revisado: 01-15-25

I'm not sure how the narrator chose this profession.. she has an off-again, mostly on-again lisp, but what makes for more difficult listening is that she completely aspirated or doesn't even pronounce the final "s" sounds of most words. at least for plural words you can usually tell it by context, but for other parts I had no clue what word(s) she had just said. I felt like this would've made for an enjoyable listening otherwise..

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Awesome

Revisado: 05-13-24

Loved this. Escape from Spiderhead, wow. Semplica Girl Diaries, really all the stories gave me a lot to think about it and were also so different from each other that I had a feeling of excitement waiting to hear what was next. And I loved the narration by George Saunders. Super nice to listen to, and he's also acting out the characters or narration in the way that he wrote them. Almost feels more like poetry and helps me understand how this is a performance in a way.

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Amazing, especially as an audiobook

Revisado: 06-28-23

I've been doing audible everyday for 6 months, and this is the first audiobook I finished without wanting to speed up the narration. I was worried at first that the author speaks a bit quietly and pauses his sentences in unexpected places, but I completely forget about this after 30 minutes or so, and when considering that the story is his, you really get immersed. The author's descriptions are so vivid, and the various people in the story so interesting and moving. There are probably some people who want some kind of moral or political commentary on the migration, but leaving it out really lets you focus on the perspective of this boy in a strange place. I hope that he was reunited with the other characters in the story.

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