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Book was excellent. Reader was horrible.

Revisado: 12-05-23

The true story of Nicole Maines, a transgender woman, was quite interesting. I found it especially fascinating how early in her life she knew she was a girl in a boy's body, a "boy-girl."

Unfortunately, the author chose to read the story herself and made it almost unbearable to listen to. She had the strangest phrasing, pausing in the wrong places, emphasizing the wrong parts of the sentence, truly slaughtering the rhythm of the writing. Until they get a professional to read this book, I would strongly recommend reading it as a book.

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Loved it!

Revisado: 10-22-23

With Meryl Streep reading and Ann Patchett writing, how could it be anything but wonderful?!

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Good story but REALLY LONG

Revisado: 09-03-22

I enjoy novels that tell a good story and also teach you some history that you had never known. This one did exactly that. You really start to care about the characters and feel anger over the injustices they suffered. My only complaint is that it was so long. But I stuck with it to the end so I guess that says something too.

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Good story, bad narrator

Revisado: 09-05-21

The story was exciting and I like the way the author incorporated Ojibwe culture into it. However, it was really hard to listen to because the narrator read it so flatly. He can reader but he’s not an actor. With a different narrator I would have given it 5 stars. As it is, I recommend reading the written version.

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Toooo Long!

Revisado: 05-26-20

Although the premise was interesting, there was way too much detail and repetition. It needed some severe editing. If there’s a condensed version, I’d say try that one instead. Or just find a different book to listen to.
I stuck it out to the bitter end and it did have a good ending but I’m not sure it was worth 30 hours of listening. I enjoyed some of Connie Willis’ other books, especially Doomsday, but this one—not so much.

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Authors shouldn’t narrate

Revisado: 07-04-18

This story is excellent. As an ex-Catholic, I especially enjoyed the religious story line that pulled the plot together. The writing is sometimes trite with certain words or phrases overused, but mostly its enjoyable. What I didn’t like was the narration. Dugoni is a writer, not an actor, and that’s how he reads. His different voices and accents are amateurish, and his Spanish accent is horrendous. I might read another book written by Dugoni in print, but not another audio book if he narrates it himself. The publisher should know better.

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Wonderful, magical book!

Revisado: 12-13-17

I absolutely loved this book. It has now become one of my favorites. Everything about it was great— the narration with different people doing different characters, the story that was believable (to the point that I actually googled Frankie Presto to see if he was real) yet with a lovely touch of magic, and the whole treatment of music. The narration by Music, the talent who was kind of like a god, was very novel and interesting. Maybe the only misstep was the narrator’s horrible Spanish pronunciation, but the positives more than made up for that. I highly recommend this book.

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Boring

Revisado: 08-08-17

I've read and listened to a lot of Bosch books over the years and this is the worst one ever. The narrator's monotonous voice puts me to sleep, and the story is slow, overly detailed and devoid of action. Connelly goes into every tiny thing Bosch does in the course of his investigation and its painstaking to listen to in the narrator's monotone. I'm about halfway through and I haven't decided if I'm going to bother finishing the book or not. Don't waste your money or your credit on this dull dull book.

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Terrible narrator

Revisado: 02-20-17

The story was fine-typical entertaining Reacher. But the narrator was really hard to listen to. He couldn't do women's voices at all and he made the male characters except for Reacher sound angry and shout everything. He really ruined the book. I hope they don't get him to do any more Reacher stories.

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A lovely book

Revisado: 11-01-16

Where does Britt-Marie Was Here rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Among the best.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Britt-Marie Was Here?

I really liked the ending.

What about Joan Walker’s performance did you like?

She made the character seem so real and so believable.

Any additional comments?

Britt-Marie's character isn't necessarily likeable at first, but the way the story unfolds she becomes more and more human and you start to see her flaws and her gifts. Her effect on the people around her is clear, but it isn't so clear how much they're affecting her until towards the end. This story held my attention and made me feel like I really knew the characters. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone who likes character-study type books with a few life lessons thrown in. (Not to mention soccer.)

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