Jeanne Cooper

A Masterpiece in Selective Remembering

Revisado: 05-15-23

Reading this book aroused two distinctively opposing feelings within me: that of utter delight in reading all about the intimate details of a senior royal while, feeling shameful for paying money to listen to a piece of propaganda by a traitor who is trying to defend his undefendable wife. Another overwhelming feeling is that in order to justify all the things he and his wife had done, he chose to only remember the bad and not the good in his life, leaving out many gaps in his personal history, and omitting context to prove a point, while vilifying his family members.

Having said that, it is a very well written book. Harry has a nice voice and the ghost writer has manage to make some parts of the story poetic and profound. I would suggest just read it to understand how Harry feels, and some tidbits of royal gossip but not take too much of it as fact. There is a lot of spin in the book, trying to use Princess Diana's name to gain public sympathies for his wife, the more he does that, the more evil he is. Using and tarnishing his own mother's name to make his wife look good. Meghan is Wallis Simpson, if one much compare her to any wives in the royal family.

The funny thing is that everything said about Prince William in this book was intended to make him look bad, however, for me at the very least, feel that Prince William's actions and words reflected the collective consiouness of the public in how we actually feel about Harry (we all want to punch Harry a little). So in the end, Prince William comes off as a sensible, insightful and strong brother while Harry comes off as someone who is under the spell of his self-serving wife while thinking he is the hero, but in fact he has betrayed his own family and country.

This book should be named Traitor, not Spare.

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Riveting!

Revisado: 05-07-22

Love everything about this! It's satisfies the eavesdropper in me, and love to hear how a woman seduces all these men. The dialogue and voices are so amazing. If only there is an Oscar for voice acting, the whole cast would win!

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Interesting Angle for a Celebrity Memoire

Revisado: 11-22-21

I watched Emily over a few days of heavy promotion on the late night TV show circuit and Fashion channels, and also read an excerpt on The Guardian before I ordered this on here. I find the themes quite relevant for me as a woman and also saw this an interesting way of writing a memoire for a celebrity. The publishers and Emily smartly combined relevant gender issues/politics, the exposé and celebrity memoire to capture the zeitgeist. Indeed, it is already a best seller.

There are some juicy details regarding famous models and billionaires. However, I like that it 'appears' to be so honest, which makes Emily's story resonant with so many women including myself. It made me feel not alone and that life is complex and not like what the media or marketing or your parents like you to believe how binary life is.

I must note that Emily's reading or performance is sometimes not easy to listen to because she mumbles and can be monotone. Perhaps it is better to read it as a book.

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Narration not so good

Revisado: 07-17-21

Bad pronunciation, bad accents, and bad voice acting, quite bad...... I'm seven chapters in, the only thing keeping me going is the story and Wilde's wit. Thank god it's free with my subscription or I would be quite annoyed with wasting a monthly credit on this.

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Best Narration

Revisado: 07-13-21

The voices and acting is so good! It captures the atmosphere and suspect the narrators made the book even more interesting. This is my first audio book, when I first click on sample, I was hooked by the memorising voice of Kafka, and used my credit immediately. I think there were parts of the books that would be a little slow without the narrators, and I feel the narrators brought the characters to life (especially for the characters Nakata and Hoshino). I don't think I would be able to finish this book reading it on my own (I have very short attention span, not easy for me to stay engaged for books that are longer than around 350 pages). So thank you Audible, and the entire cast of voices! I can 'read' long books now with your help and So glad I get to experience a literary work like Kafka on the Shore!

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