Judy

Genius

Revisado: 10-29-18

The first time I listened to the trilogy there were long intervals between each reading. This time t listened more carefully and consecutively. The older one gets, the closer the generations become. I am a 78-yr-old Appalachian-American woman. I
I followed the generations through hardship and injustice, wealth and glory. Ken Follet is a genius, and his performer, John Lee, nothing short of brilliant. Thank you both for this work of historical art.

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Thank you Elizabeth

Revisado: 06-08-18

I think of all you have done for others and my soul cries , because if my husband had not been ill in the hospital for 143 days, while I struggled to raise 4 kids, only 3 years' college, if I had not had to go bankrupt, I could have made something of myself. I know I have it in me, but now I am 78 and still struggling to overcome adversity. I had worked for an MRDD home of 8 ladies, and after blowing the whistle for 3 times, I was fired. I still don't know if those girls have air conditioning and heat upstairs yet. I wish I could have helped them. Thank you Elizabeth, for all your dedication & hard work. You are the exception to the rule that all politicians are crooked. Pass it on. L

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A real honest page-turner!

Revisado: 03-23-17

Serious, detailed, nail-biting but not heavy, this is one of the most satisfying books I've ever read. I had to listen to it twice in case I missed anything. You will be thoroughly entertained by this book! The reader is excellent except for slipping into Danielle toward the second half instead of Daniel. But a minor defect, which did not detract from the plot. Ellen Archer is such a talented reader that I gave her 5 stars anyway. She kept the interest high and when anyone spoke you knew immediately who it was. No matter what your interests or genre', you will be mesmerized as was I.

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Genius Writer; Brilliant Narrator

Revisado: 01-01-15

I highly recommend this entire series. The writer is truly gifted. the reader, perfection. Please start with book 1 to keep with the flow of the story. While engrossed in a wonderful captivating tale one inadvertently learns a lot of history, geography, and the realization that people are the same no matter when and where they are born. Previous generations have more superstitions, blood & gore at times (but do they really?)
Constantly on the search for a good book this one has it all...romance, betrayal, war, fantasy, reality, and an attention to a detailed description that one seldom finds. All the love scenes are artfully and tastefully presented with never a vulgarity. In addition, Davina Porter is so gifted that one never has to wonder which character is speaking!
This is a book I would highly recommend no matter what your preference of genre`

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Genius Writer; Brilliant Narrator

Revisado: 01-01-15

I highly recommend this entire series. The writer is truly gifted. the reader, perfection. Please start with book 1 to keep with the flow of the story. While engrossed in a wonderful captivating tale one inadvertently learns a lot of history, geography, and the realization that people are the same no matter when and where they are born. Previous generations have more superstitions, blood & gore at times (but do they really?)
Constantly on the search for a good book this one has it all...romance, betrayal, war, fantasy, reality, and an attention to a detailed description that one seldom finds. All the love scenes are artfully and tastefully presented with never a vulgarity. In addition, Davina Porter is so gifted that one never has to wonder which character is speaking!
This is a book I would highly recommend no matter what your preference of genre`

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At times very condescending

Revisado: 12-26-14

I listened to this book about a month ago and I still keep thinking and feeling about the reader's tone of voice that many times was very condescending. However, I do not think that is what was meant to be portrayed. Since PTSD was not understood then as it is now, it felt like the reader was belittling Jacque for "being weak". It made me feel like she was being portrayed as a "spoiled child" trying to get attention.

In another vein, one must realize that when Jacque was growing up it was still the woman's role, so to speak, to cater to her husband and to support him "no matter what". A kind of "stand by your man" mentality. Trust me, I lived through this era, saw the change, and, Jacque was a "last of the breed" type woman. I think this also helped to inadvertently portray her as a weak spoiled girl/woman.

When she married Onassis, one can look back and see that she needed to get away from the constant reminder of her nightmare experience, and I am sure this seemed to be a good way to do it, to run away, to get away from all the reminders of that traumatic day she had to endure and had to keep experiencing daily through the constant reminders she had to face. I think this marriage was an attempt at escape, not the fulfillment of a great love of her life. Even with this, the escape did not work.

I would have liked to have heard more about her relationship with her children. The book made it sound like they were very seldom around.

My heart goes out to Jacque with the unimaginable things she had to endure. With this in mind, the condescending tone from the reader was just too much for me to bear. However, I am glad I listened to the book, and I would recommend it, if only for the new perspective and how she still handled things like a Lady, even enduring the unknown symptoms and consequences of PTSD.

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A Brand New Fan

Revisado: 04-06-14

Mr Coben -- I had never heard about you until I signed up for your pre-release, caught up in the excitement, much like when I go shopping and just HAVE to have this article. Well I am TOTALLY glad I did! You are now my new favorite and January is brilliant; thank you for your wise choice of readers.

When this book started, skipping to another plot, I daydreamed somewhat until I decided hey, I have missed something important here! So I went back to the beginning (after probably 1/3 the way through) and I am SO glad I did! This book is so well balanced with the good, the bad and the ugly! You are now my favorite author, and January my favorite narrator. I was blown away by this book, needless to say!

I have a wide variety of interests in reading, and few favorite authors, with fewer still readers. Mr Coben, I am going to read all your books. If they are just half as good as Missing You, you have a new fan for life!

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A Masterpiece!

Revisado: 01-27-14

As a white girl who went to school in rural Southern Ohio I had never met a dark-skinned person until the mid-60’s, mainly because we were terribly poor and, therefore, did not get out much unless we traveled with the band, and, later I, as a cheerleader. From age 8 until age 17, I had never traveled to the nearest adjacent town 10 miles away until our school band was invited to participate in a parade. So, even though I had seen them, I had never actually met a Negro, as they were then called, until after I was married, with children, and introduced to a lady who was my mother’s best friend, and thought nothing of it when Mother told me she was having Thanksgiving dinner with her friend’s family.

A very compassionate person, I had watched Roots and, later listened to it on Audible. I concluded that every child should have Roots as a requirement in middle school. Then I both read and listened to The Help. Recognizing the time was set around the 50’s, when I was a teenager, I remembered a time when my grandmother took me on a trip on a Greyhound bus, and noticed the dark-skinned people sitting in the back of the bus. I was neither surprised nor indignant; that’s just the way it was. Also, neither did I feel surprise when the male employees made more than the females because “they had families to provide for”. I never questioned that or the off-color "jokes" they told.

I never thought about a man picking up ANYTHING after himself until Phil Donohue talked about how he picked up his socks after himself, and did not leave them for his wife to do. That was the beginning of my conscientiousness about female inequality.

I have watched the entire cycle of enlightenment about the male/female roles, and much of the dark skin/light skin roles change over the last 60+ years. I got most of my education from TV as I Spy was the first series that featured a black male in a co-starring role. That was back when a dark skinned person could not even touch the hand, arm, etc of any white female on TV, let alone look at her lasciviously. No, darlings, that was not back in the 1800’s, but was just when I was married with young children, in the 60’s, after quitting my 3rd year in college because I got married, knowing it was what society expected of me, pre-dating my wedding day after my boyfriend and I got married in secret, and before I started to “show”.

I watched as TV ads morphed from the “he” ads (What will the doctor say when he sees your son’s leg?” to “What will your doctor say when she sees your daughter‘s leg?”) Within a few short years or decades this kind of advertising has, in my opinion, made the white male the most handicapped of all the sexes and races. Within the last 3-4 years I have heard my 3 grandsons (from 3 different families and areas) remark that girls were smarter than boys! (Oh, the pendulum swings.)

Now, I am a hard working great-grandma working with hundreds of dark skinned emigrants, trying to make life a bit simpler/easier for them. I love the path my life has taken, due, in most part to the conscience-raising in my life from many sources.

Therefore, I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Ms. Kidd, for researching and writing about these 3 wonderful Southern women who were ready to give their life or make it their life’s work to somehow make it better for thousands, millions of unborn people that they could never have envisioned. It makes me weep for all the unfortunates “out there” who actually have given their very lifeblood, and who still do, come to think it, many times on a global theatre.

This is a Masterpiece, and should be required reading for all middle school children!

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High Energy!

Revisado: 01-20-14

I read this novel when I needed energy; I could not read it before bedtime. I thought I was getting espionage, and the beginning hooked me, but it was just blood & gore the entire way through.
I am sure this is someone's cup of tea, but, as for myself, I can only endure so many fights, bullets flying, broken bones and spying drones.

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Excellent Reader; Poor Plot

Revisado: 01-16-14

Well, actually, the plot, per se`, was not poor; it just took a VERY long time to get there. I kept thinking, "OK, SOMETHING is going to happen! So, I held on, and on, and on...well, you get the picture...Then, about 1 hour or so before the very end of the story was the crescendo, moving me to tears, and I thought "Yes, Yes!" And, so, the story should have ended there, except the author kept going on, and on and ON...
...until the very heart of the story was overshadowed. It was like those boring email jokes that didn't know when to stop.
If it had not been for the reader I would have left by the 2nd or 3rd part, so I MUST say I was very entertained.

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