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Janet Suzman is a gem!

Revisado: 03-25-22

Fantastic narrator! The story is sometimes exciting, often repetitive. Not a sexy book (I'd assumed it was) but the sense of an unreliable narrator (lying to us, lying to herself?) is the real drama.

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lots of excitement, lots of antisemitism

Revisado: 06-30-18

fun, but hasn't aged well. dickens' heroines are always a bore. the bit characters shine.

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my favorite audiobook yet!

Revisado: 05-29-17

do not miss this one. I already loved gloria Naylor from reading mama day, so I figured this would be good. it was even better than I'd hoped. lots of sad in it, but it has a bigger story to tell than sorrow. Naylor was the real deal. she was a genius & will be missed. great cast of narrators. my favorite ensemble audiobook, and I've enjoyed others.

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a sad one

Revisado: 05-15-17

I knew indridason would find a way to make me feel for sigurdur oli. I was so glad when I realized that we would get to learn more about andres, though of all the sad stories in this series so far, his has been the saddest. It was hard to spend time with him, even as a reader, with the option to press pause. his story stays with you. I love the respect indridason gives to each character. there are no disposable people in this world, and it is always a joy to read an author who is aware of that.

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I love elinborg!

Revisado: 05-11-17

hope indridason has written or will write another one from her perspective. not sure I'd want to see the world through sigurdur oli's eyes (so judgmental), but I'm willing to go there if indridason is. he's fantastic.

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great story. great narrator

Revisado: 04-15-17

I listened to the whole thing in about 3 days and loved it. Roth is a great author and this story is so good. nothing truly implausible in it, which is what makes the book so upsetting. the masked, unpredictable nature of American anti semitism is captured well, as well as intra-group friction & class resentment.

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great narrator, great story, but. ..

Revisado: 10-22-16

Jane is a drama queen but makes great asides, St. John a grade A god-botherer, Rochester plucked straight out of female id (so naturally he's the best part of the story), Adele a hilarious caricature of the british take on whats wrong with the french (short answer: frivolity). Helen Burns is second only to Rochester, may even be better. Thandie Newton is fantastic, all her voices convincing. would love to hear her read more!

my only complaints are with the story itself. but our world would be unrecognizable to the brontes, our values grotesque. JUST GET A DIVORCE, YOU'RE NOT EVEN CATHOLIC, ISN'T THAT THE WHOLE REASON BRITAIN STOPPED BEING CATHOLIC. but I guess it wouldn't be much of a story then. Janes self imposed poverty disgusted me (it's not poverty if it's optional, boo), st. John, were he real, would have been one of the worst things England ever did to india, and for someone who was trying to pay for a loaf of bread with her worn out gloves just a few weeks ago, Jane is pretty haughty re: her rural students. I guess you can't escape the prejudices of your time & place, or at least not easily. final verdict: thandie rules, Rochester is a dreamboat for the ages, Jane's judgmental but full of great "bless her heart" Christian snaps on those she's too well bred to describe bluntly.

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Beautiful, sad and suspenseful

Revisado: 03-13-16

Beautiful book about good people doing terrible things . unforgettable narrator. full of great facts.

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