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Great Book-Terrible Narration

Revisado: 02-02-24

This was a great profile on Francis Ford Coppola. I have read many books on him and I learned a lot of new material here.

The problem is the narrator has no idea how to pronounce most of the names associated with this. Sometimes pronouncing someone’s name differently in the same sentence, including the subject of the book. Really takes you out of it. Unfortunate.

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Pretty Much More of the Same

Revisado: 03-01-23

This is a conspiracy book, plain and simple. While the story of Orville Nix is a very interesting one, most of this is colored by the author’s very obvious biases. There are also some issues with some clear hindsight conversations that literally could not have happened when the author says they did. Example, the night of the assassination when they refer to Oswald saying he was a patsy. That hadn’t happened yet. If the author is wrong or misleading about little things, how do you trust the big things?

The author is definitely not a fan of LBJ, no question.

Chalking up everything that happened at any point that day to possible conspiracy is a bit much.

Interesting book but not to be taken too seriously.

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Perfect Intro to Lloyd

Revisado: 02-22-23

Also good if you don’t know much. The author truly has a love of her subject, and the narration is excellent as well. After this book you come away feeling as if you truly knew Harold Lloyd and will want to rediscover his films, or seek them out to watch for the first time.

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Good Book, Lackluster Delivery

Revisado: 12-08-22

I highly recommend this book. You really get to know Lucille Ball from the very beginning.

I would have liked a little more behind the scenes on certain aspects of the various television shows, but this is a minor quibble.

The narrator sounds like she is bored most of the time. Which makes moments where she wails or cries while describing something very jarring.

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Good history, terrible delivery

Revisado: 09-13-22

This was a good history of the 1981 Expos season and their playoff series with the eventual World Champion Dodgers. Ostensibly about the Rick Monday home run, the book climaxes a bit too early, with the playoff series ending about halfway through the book.

The problem is the narrator. I had read a review that mentioned mispronounced names. I figured I could get past it. I was wrong. If they couldn’t get a narrator that knew baseball or even had a cursory knowledge of the era he was narrating, then someone should have sat this guy down and taught him how to pronounce these names. I’m not talking about obscure players of the era. This narrator mispronounced (sometimes different ways in the same paragraph) the following names, among others: Willie Stargell, Mike Scioscia, Jerry Reuss, umpire Paul Runge, and scout Mel Didier. It’s very distracting and completely takes you out of the book.

One of the few books that I’ve listened to on Audible that I wish I read the book the old fashioned way instead.

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Will listen again

Revisado: 04-08-22

Great background, great performance. Everything you ever wanted to know about the subject matter without becoming boring or repetitive.

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