Karen S. Watts

Classic Blanchard style, but...

Revisado: 02-07-15

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

I'd recommend the book perhaps, but not this particular audio. The title, with its use of the word "retire" led me to believe the book would be more professionally focused. The first hour of this 3 hour recording is about emotional issues and personal relationships. The last hour is about health issues. In the middle is an hour on intellectual growth.

What did you like best about this story?

The examples and suggestions for actions mixed into the stories.

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator's attempt to do "voices" (especially women) was cartoonish and very distracting. The accented imitation of a sushi server could be construed as racist;should have been skipped. After about an hour it actually became painful to listen to the recording; I wanted to hear the content but the performance was cringe worthy. A straight reading would have been much better.

Do you think Refire! Don't Retire needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

Only if the follow-up book included more stories of successful, content older adults who are getting at least some parts of the refire process right. And with a DIFFERENT narrator for the audio version.

Any additional comments?

The first third of this book is geared toward people in emotional fog and it feels much like the listener is overhearing therapy sessions. Some of the stories seemed to play right into the stereotype of the tech phobic, cranky, tired over 50 crowd. The book covers the basics, but the horrible reader really interferes with absorbing the content.

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