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Disappointing

Revisado: 01-07-25

Interesting take on the story, but the narrator is one of the worst ever, in my opinion. I couldn't return the book because I paid for it not having any available credits, and I just CAN'T listen to Dominic Hoffman for one more minute. How this was determined to be the BEST of 2024 is beyond me.

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Couldn’t Get Past Chapter 6

Revisado: 11-29-23

Author tries too hard to be witty and doesn’t quite make it. Couldn’t listen any longer though the narrator did a good job.

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Yes! I Can Hear You

Revisado: 11-02-23

I like the story and enjoyed two previous books but I tried to listen to this three times and cant get through Chapter 4 before quitting, The narrator screams the book at the top of her lungs. Everything sounds like she’d just finished a 200 meter dash. The narrator ruined the book for me.

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Unendurably boring

Revisado: 02-13-21

This was incredibly boring. I couldn't make it all the way past the middle of the third chapter before returning it for something I'm sure will be more entertaining.

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Marvelous Author

Revisado: 12-26-20

When I was a child (back in the '50s) this book was in our family library but, for some unknown reason, I never picked it up. I read Oliver Wiswell and Rabble In Arms by Kenneth Roberts, instead. I downloaded this book several years ago but only just now got around to listening to it (Dec. 2020). I was totally awed by the author's ability to evoke mood with a simple and skillful turn of phrase. However, I can't imagine Henry Fonda as Gil or Claudette Colbert as Lana. Horrible miscasting by today's standards.

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Not one of his best

Revisado: 12-02-15

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

NO! Too long and eventually bored me to tears.

Would you be willing to try another book from Bryce Courtenay? Why or why not?

I've read most of Bryce Courtenay's books and enjoyed most, but not all of them.

What about Humphrey Bower’s performance did you like?

I think Humphrey Bower is one of the BEST narrators to be found at Audible.

Was The Story of Danny Dunn worth the listening time?

Up to a point. Too often Courtenay rambles on way too long. This book would have been complete and wonderful at about 2/3rds.

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Captivating

Revisado: 05-21-15

Did Chris Andrews do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Chris Andrews should have consulted with people who live in that area how to pronounce the names of places. For instance the city Houma is NOT pronounced WHO mah. It's HOE ma. Lafitte is laFEET, NOT La FIT. And you pronounce the S in Ysclosky!I found his constant mispronunciations extremely annoying.

Any additional comments?

I lived in New Orleans from 1977 to 1986. For the first two years I ran crew boats in the Kerr-McGee production field in Breton Sound. Our base was in Hopedale, so every other week (we worked 7 days on/7 off) I drove up and down those roads and I ran boats around in those bayous. The last three years I lived on a shanty boat at the Gulf Outlet Marina on Bayou Bienvenue in Chalmette, so I have a real feeling for the area.New Orleans got all the media attention, and it's understandable. People in Detroit, Denver, and even Düsseldorf, Germany know about New Orleans, but none of them ever heard of Shell Beach of Ysclosky. I saw videos of the flooding in St. Bernard and couldn't believe my eyes. 95% of the structures in the Parish were flooded! The Gulf Outlet Marina, which sat INSIDE the levee system, the story says, was "obliterated." I could, literally, visualize the narrative as it unfolded, knowing Violet and the canal and what those houses and camps along the bayou all the way down to Hopedale were going through.Thank you for this book.

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Would have been a decent Novella

Revisado: 02-20-15

What would have made Blood on the Water better?

I have enjoyed the Monk series, but now, at the 20th book, Anne Perry has pretty much run out of things to say. There is so much unnecessary padding in the exposition of the book to bring the word count up to novel length that it became, for me at least, unbearably boring and I had to quit halfway through, something I rarely do. The book might have been a decent novella, but it just didn't cut it for me.

What does David Colacci bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I think he's one of the best readers at Audible along with Humphrey Bower. Bronson Pinchot, on the other hand has been a HUGE disappointment.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

None that were readily apparent.

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Mediocre writing, phoned in performance

Revisado: 06-24-12

How could the performance have been better?

The performance by Pariseau was boring and phoned in. Whereas performers like Humphrey Bower and John Lee are wonderful at giving each character a distinctive voice Pariseau has such a limited range one would be hard to distinguish whether Keefer and May Winn was speaking if you didn't know the context.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

This is definitely a case where the movie was better than the book, or at least the Audible version of the book.

Any additional comments?

While the basic story is good and Wouk is an established author the overall style is very dated in this day and age. Dickens still holds up a couple of centuries after the fact. Wouk will be forgotten in less time than that.

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Disappointing Narration

Revisado: 06-16-12

Would you listen to Matterhorn again? Why?

No. While the story was good the narration was slow, uninspired and generally a disappointment considering the other works of Pinchot.

How could the performance have been better?

It would have been a big improvement to have a narrator who didn't seem to be bored with the whole thing. There were many times, despite being interested in the narrative, that I wanted to just give up on the book because of the lackluster performance of Pinchot.

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