Ron L. Caldwell

Did they really never falter?

Revisado: 05-05-24

This was pure hagiography. I would have appreciated less fawning and more objectivity. The book is shallow and repetitive.

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Cliché after cliché

Revisado: 05-01-23

I very much wanted to like this book. I saw the film and really enjoyed it. But the number of hackneyed words and phrases and the deliberate cutesy-ness was just cloying. I don’t know why the author didn’t grow out of the “poop” stage of development; the word and its forms infect the book. Is it too much to ask for something a little more cerebral with one’s tragedy? Kit sounds wonderful, but the relationship with Michael just wasn’t very interesting. At least not in this telling. It had moving moments, don’t get me wrong, but it could have been better with some thoughtful editing.

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A stunning indictment

Revisado: 03-23-22

This is a masterfully crafted tale of greed and hubris that needed desperately to be told. Carreyrou tells the story with subtlety and with a view to the larger picture. Elizabeth Holmes lost sight of the truth and of basic human decency early in her rise to fame and fortune and left in her wake destruction and pain.

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One of the greatest

Revisado: 11-19-19

This is a fine, nuanced book that has withstood the test of time. It's a damning indictment of a psychotic family annihilator who almost escaped justice. The narrators' performances are terrific. I'll keep coming back to this book as long as I'm listening to books.

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A gem of Modernism

Revisado: 05-03-19

This is a beautifully written, heartbreaking novel that would probably be of interest to anyone who is curious about the WWI period. But, in fact, it's a worthy book from any era. The three women in the life of Chris (the titular soldier) each have a peculiar relationship with him. Jenny, the narrator, is our window onto their world and these relationships.

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Heartbreaking

Revisado: 08-03-18

A difficult and tragic story told with courage and clarity. It wouldn't be precisely true to say that I enjoyed the book, but it felt important, and I'm very glad that it exists. I want to know more about what has become of the author, and hope that he will write another book.

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A bit too much gee-whizzing

Revisado: 07-16-18

I'm a child of the 60s and Leonard Bernstein was a god to me. West Side Story and Candide changed my life. In the ensuing decades other of his compositions have spoken to me. I was in the audience for rehearsals of Houston Grand Opera's productions of Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place. All that is leading up to saying that I have the greatest respect for the maestro's immense talent.

Jamie Bernstein is a clear-eyed observer and reporter of her and LB's life and relationship. I'm grateful for that. The only criticism that I would offer is that there's a bit too much of the forced cutesy-ness in her childhood stories. The family's in-jokes are not all that funny to an outsider.

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Somewhat disappointing

Revisado: 04-01-18

This is a well-written book, bit instead of a thorough account of quantum gravity, precious little of the text is devoted to that slippery subject. Instead, we get a rather prosaic history of physics from the ancient Greeks on. While that's interesting, it's well-trodden territory, and not why I bought the book.

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Excellent book in a great series

Revisado: 02-15-18

This is a very well-written and entertaining book, with engaging characters and an interesting plot. I really like our hero, Sean Duffy, a Catholic officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland. He's smart, witty, and fallible. The rest of the characters are engaging, too. These books are set in the 1980s, so they are blessedly devoid of technobabble. I would recommend listening to the whole series in order.

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Gritty and witty

Revisado: 11-13-17

Sean Duffy is a wonderful, richly drawn character and these books in which he figures are marvelous. The author immerses us in a time long-past with references to music and the fundamental elements that make life in the early 1980s in Ulster so different from life now. The whole novel is saturated with sharp wit. Our hero is complex and his decisions not always pretty, which makes tagging along with him that much more interesting. He's in a constant moral quandary, for reasons you'll know right away. I have already bought three or four more books in the series, and look forward to many happy hours spent with Duffy and his estimable colleagues.

AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY

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