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Title: A Salesman's Guide to Hunting

Subtitle: The Deer/Dear Hunt, Book 1

Author: Alan Oberdeck

Narrator: Mark McDevitt

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-10

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Veteran salesman Peter Waldmann is on a routine sales call when he is surprised to find that the new purchasing agent he is calling on is none other than John Stemple, his very best friend from high school, 40 years earlier. When John invites him to come on a deer hunt with him in Edgerton, Wisconsin, a place Peter hasn't returned to in 40 years, he embarks on a journey to the past that will forever have a lasting effect on his future.

In The Deer/Dear Hunt, author Alan M. Oberdeck explores the threads of life that affect everyone. See life through the eyes of a man who committed a stupid, youthful act that left him maimed and cost him the love of his life, Linda Leigh Swensen. When Peter and Linda accidentally meet, he is forced to ask the question, can you ever go back again?

Members Reviews:

A story about the lives of people across time

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

After listening to the audiobook Deliverance I really wanted to find something else on par with that genre as Deliverance is a darn good story with excellent narration. Or at least something that focused on the outdoors and hunting. This desire led me to this book.I would say the book isn't much about hunting. It's more about a romantic coincidence in the life of an average Joe. Usually, in these sorts of stories the hunting theme is used as an analogy to some trigger event in the life of the protagonist. I suppose if I thought hard enough I might find such a linkage in this story but in general I think it's fairly weak. That said the story is entertaining. It just isn't a macho manly man hunting story.I think the author would have benefited from better editing. I got used to hearing the same descriptive words used in the same sentence or in two sentences next to each other. For example the author might have used the following types of wording choices: "It was a rather strange thing for her to say but he paid the bill and strangely enough he had the exact change." These sorts of word choices are littered throughout the book. It doesn't ruin the story but it is a little annoying.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The main character simply because he and his love interest were really the only 2 people the reader could possibly care about and we never really get to know the love interest all that well.

What about Mark McDevitts performance did you like?

Hum, this is a tricky one. Mark sounds like an everyday average joe but slightly on the wimpy side. It sort of fits the inexperienced hunter persona the author is trying to portray and it also fits the inexperienced lover he is also trying to portray. There I go using the same descriptor in the same sentence. But my point is that I don't really buy it that such a wimp would travel across the country to hunt with someone who stands him up. Maybe it's that Mark's performance is wimpy but a little happy go lucky at the same time? I just don't believe such a combination would be a person who goes out and buys a shotgun never having shot a gun before and then decides to attempt to hunt even though his best friend who was going to show him how it's done bails on the vacation. I also don't buy it that such a character could be a successful salesperson.