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Interesting!

Revisado: 05-05-24

A personal and very interesting look into the aftermath of the attack on Rushdie, as well as being a lovely description of his relationship with his wife. Having only read a couple of his books and being too young to remember much of the media coverage of the fatwa, the book did require some background-google'ing at times. however, it did an overall good job at being possible to follow without dwelling too much time on the past.

I was surprised at how much I liked Rushdie's depiction of his attacker: While it could be argued that being depicted by an author of Rushdie's caliber is an honor, one cannot help but cheer at the absolute *burn* it is to tell someone that they seem so irrelevant, that the version of you they made up, is more interesting than the real one.

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If this book knocks at your window...

Revisado: 02-27-24

...let it in! I first read this book many years ago, and have no regrets listening to it again. The narration is perfect voice for the story as told by Nelly in the framing device.

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This is a classic for a reason

Revisado: 01-28-24

Dickens work is absolutely worth the listen! The story keeps suspensfull throughout, with characters and worldbuilding that feels surprisingly modern.

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Excellent historical true-crime

Revisado: 01-13-24

An excellent book that not only manages to tell the story of the "crime and consequences" in question, but in painting a picture of life New York City at the end of the 18th century.

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A fine, but meandering continuation

Revisado: 01-07-24

While the story is entertaining, this book felt less like a cohesive story than the two previous installments.

(SPOILERS AHEAD)

The story starts of rather abruptly, in a way that made it feel a bit disconnected from the last book. While Uthred's ability to luck his way into Alfred's good (or at least neutral) graces in the previous two books was written as somewhat believable, his encounter and subsequent friendship with Guthred seems a lot more forced and comes out of nowhere.

Furthermore, the two-year ordeal Uthred suffers, seemingly served little purpose other than to give us an excuse for a (not particularly necessary) time-skip. The two years in slavery also did not seem to have had lasting consequences either physically, mentally or for Uthred's political and personal situation, given that he more or less gets to pick up where he left things upon his return. This section of the book thus feels like a bit of a filler episode, and given the lack of any other real action (apart from the by now almost formulaic end-of-book battle), made it a less engaging listen than the previous two.

The narrator is fine overall and has a good voice for the gruff warrior-types, but like many male narrators, sadly fails to make the voices of the female characters particularly believable. Somewhat justified in that the story frames as being told by Uthred himself.

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