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Title: The Good Life

Author: Jay McInerney

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-27-06

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Posed with astonishing understanding and compassion, these questions power a novel rich with characters and events, both comic and harrowing, revelatory about not only New York after the attacks but also the toll taken on those lucky enough to have survived them. Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see, through personal, social, and moral complexity, more clearly into the heart of things.

Critic Reviews:

"There have been a number of 9/11 novels lately, as writers grapple with what that terrible day means to us. This one is essential." (Booklist)

"This story is a simple one, but McInerney delivers it with grace and wit. He does what a good novelist should: He takes an abstract idea and gives it life." (Publishers Weekly)

"The Good Life is McInerneys most fully imagined novel as it is his most ambitious and elegiac. (The New York Review of Books)

Members Reviews:

The Bridges of Why Am I Reading This Crap

So, Ive got this little disorder. Just this one: Once I begin reading a book, I am compelled to finish it. Regardless of how much I dislike it, I continue to pick up the book continue to read.

After finishing Brett Easton Ellis excellent Lunar Park, I wanted to read something by Jay Mcinerny. Jay is a character in Lunar Park and is best known for his breakthrough novel Bright Lights, Big City. Not sure what posessed me, but rather than going for the easy bet and reading BL, BC, I made the error of picking out The Good Life, Jays latest.

Bleh.

The Good Life reads like Bridges of Madison County for the middle-aged urbanite. Set in NY, NY around the time of 9/11, the novel tells the story of a couple of priveledged New Yorkers too lazy to work at their own marriages that fall easily into illicit love amongst the Ground Zero soup kitchens. If "illicit love" makes you think "Harlequin Romance", then youve got the right idea: theres enough trashy bodice-ripping in there to satisfy the requirements of the genre.

Theres also a large helping of grief porn if youre into that sort of thing. The jumpers, the flee-ers, the diggers and the body bags Jays got it covered.

Learn from my mistake. Read Bright Lights, Big City. It really is as good as youve heard.

A disappointment

The first half showed great promise. The second half was like a harlequin romance. I only kept listening because I thought for sure it would get back on track. It didn't.

The ending is "To die..."

Witty and insightful, with the hand on the pulse of current NYC culture, this novel is attractive for its portraits of NYC middle and upper classes.

After 9/11, America (for a short time) fell in love with its rich, alongside its firefighters and police officers. Sex was another prominent response to the tragedy. This book explores both in a compelling way.

The plot is borrowed from a vacation romance novel - rich boy, poor girl fall in love while on a break from their regular life. The dramatic tension comes from their realization that the state is temporary. Shmear a layer of 9/11 on it and voula - you got The Good Life. Inane.

But the intelligence of cultural observations and penetration of emotional complexity hangs enough meat on the plot to make it a very palatable read. And the ending is to die...

Great book and great narration

Jay McInerney captures the New York scene post 9/11 with great insight.

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Título: La Vida Secreta de las Abejas

Subtitular: Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)

Autor: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrador: Cristina Arsuaga

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 46 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 09-16-05

Editor: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 46 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Now this New York Times best seller is available as a Spanish-language audiobook. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of the Bees is the history of Lily Owens, whose life has been formed around the confused memory of the afternoon on which her mother was murdered. This is a notable novel about female power, divine and human, and a story that women will share and pass from mother to daughter for generations.

Crítica Comentarios:

"A moving first novel...Lily is an authentic and winning character and her story is compellingly told." (USA Today)

Contáctame para cualquier pregunta: [email protected]

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Title: Oracle Night

Author: Paul Auster

Narrator: Paul Auster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 91 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Why does his wife suddenly break down in tears in the backseat of a taxi just hours after Sidney begins writing in the notebook? Why does M.R. Chang, the owner of the stationery shop, precipitously shut down his business the next day? What are the connections between a 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel in which the hero can predict the future? At what point does animosity explode into violence? To what degree is forgiveness the ultimate expression of love?

Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book, only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. At once a meditation on the nature of time and a journey through the labyrinth of one man's imagination, Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.

Critic Reviews:

"Artful, ingenious...both a darkly suspenseful domestic drama and a moving meditation on chance and loss....Auster's unique genius is to make the absurd coherent; his stories have a dreamlike, hallucinatory logic." (Publishers Weekly)

"Auster has a droll, almost twangy, voice, which he uses to good effect....Oracle Night is likely to be revered by Auster's many fans." (AudioFile)

"[Auster] shines as a fabulist and tale-teller, putting a high-modernist gloss on noir." (The New Yorker)

Members Reviews:

Unusual but unsatisfying

"Oracle Night" is a patchwork quilt of stories within stories within stories. Like one of his characters, Mr. Auster appears to have gone through some of his old notebooks and found some story ideas that do not work out and included them here. While there are some moments when deja vu and coincidence combine to produce a chilling, supernatural effect, for the most part, the story is rather silly. I did not care at all what happens to these self-absorbed, incomplete characters who seem to act in some kind of existential nightmare where nothing makes any sense. Mr. Auster is not a gifted reader and his pace is so slow that I often found my attention wandering. Since two of the main characters are writers, perhaps this is more of an insider's story. It seems that the author, in an attempt to make up something interesting in an otherwise mundane life, has gone too far and created an unbelievable world that leaves the reader wishing for the nonsense to end.

The Master Speaks

Another excellent work from one of our finest novelists. Of particular note is the fact that Auster himself reads the text. I have read most of his books and have never heard his voice. It was very gratifying. If you like serious fiction with moderately challenging structures this is for you. If you like action films and predictable plots you should go for something else. Auster is a great contemporary artist.

Stellar

Having listened to Auster's The Brooklyn Follies, and The Book of Illusions, Oracle Night proved to be another gem. Auster, like Lawrence Block, is the perfect author/reader; well paced, understandable, and adding that something extra to the experience.

His stories often highlight those unexplainable moments and circumstances that many experience in their lives. Oracle Night is a tapestry, a story within a story, within another story. Entertaining, provocative, well worth the time.

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Title: Moonlight on the Millpond

Author: Lori Wick

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-05

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 78 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This first book in the Tucker Mills Trilogy from beloved author Lori Wick follows Jace Randall as he leaves his childhood home to help his Uncle Woody Randall run the saw mill in Token Creek. Jace diligently focuses on work until he meets the visiting niece of local storekeepers. Jace pursues her until she finally agrees to attend a picnic with him and take a chance. But before the relationship has a strong foundation, the couple separates because of gossip fueled by Jace's sister. Later, when she admits her wrongdoing and shares her testimony of a new faith, the couple must decide whether to try again. Will the sister's example of faith and transformation be enough to restore broken dreams?

©2005 Lori Wick; (P)2005 Oasis Audio

Members Reviews:

Moonlight on the Millpond

I enjoyed this book quite a bit! The characters growth in Christ were portrayed in just the way Lori does it. Moonlight on the Millpond was a relaxing listen. I would love to listen to other Lori Wick titles!!

Good listen

It was refreshing to hear narration free of profanity and filled with hope and truth. A must "hear" for Christians and those seeking truth.

disappointing, waste of time and money

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Ridiculous story or lack there of. A woman doesn't remember her wedding because of alchol??? Very childish and amatuer - not what I would have expected from a known writer. Won't purchase her books again

What could Lori Wick have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Written a story!

Have you listened to any of Barbara Rosenblats other performances before? How does this one compare?

No Her performance was fine. She had little to work with.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Moonlight on the Millpond?

The scenes that dealt with her not remembering her wedding and all the drama that went along with it.

Any additional comments?

This does not qualify as literature.

Couldn't Get Into It!

Let me start by saying I usually LOVE Lori Wick. This book was a snoozer. I listened to four chapters and just could not get into it. The narration will put you to sleep. I tried all speeds and it was just not good. The characters did not grab my attention. The storyline was plodding. Finally, I just returned it because there are so many great books out there. I didn't want to waste anymore time on this one.

Outstanding!

What did you love best about Moonlight on the Millpond?

one of the best i have ever read and heard! I love this series and enjoy Lori Wicks many works. Thank you for bringing these wonderful works to life.

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Título: Cosecha de Almas [Soul Harvest] (Texto Completo)

Autor: Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrador: Francisco Rivela

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 11 hrs and 46 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-18-04

Editor: Recorded Books

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 14 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

En Cosecha de Almas, siga enterandose que pasa con los restos de Comando Tribulacion mientras cada miembro lucha por sobrevivir y combatir al anticristo hasta que ocurra la manifestacion gloriosa de Cristo.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Two Stars

The book is falling apart, the pages fly out when you turn the page.

Five Stars

ok

good

`Cosecha de almas' es un libro apocalíptico que nos presenta la oportunidad de la salvación en tiempos de grandes cambios planetarios. Una novela muy interesante. La recomiendo. Recomiendo también el libroResurgir de la esvástica, El (Ebook) [Versión Kindle] el cual habla con mucha claridad sobre estos temas del fin de los tiempos.

BUEN LIBRO

ESTE, AL IGUAL QUE TODA LA SERIE, SON LIBROS PARA HACERTE REFLEXIONAR SOBRE EL FUTURO Y LA PROFESIA BIBLICA. LA FORMA DE NARRACION ES EXCELENTE. PERO POR SUPUESTO AL SER UN LIBRO PARTE DE UNA SERIE, NO SE PUEDE ENTENDER COMPLETAMENTE SI NO SE HA LEIDO LOS LIBROS ANTERIORES. RECOMIENDO FUERTEMENTE LEER LA SERIE COMPLETA,QUE A ESTA FECHA VA POR 10 LIBROS. ES DIFICIL "DEJARLOS ATRAS " SIN TERMINARLOS.

COMIENZE A LEER EL PRIMER LIBRO DE LA SERIE QUE ES: DEJADOS ATRAS Y VERA LO BUENOS Y INSTRUCCTIVOS QUE SON ESTOS LIBROS. SON EXCELENTES Y NADA ABURRIDOS

Realmente Excelente !!!!!!

Uno de los mejores libros que he leido, apasionante, intenso, espectante y ademas un libro que te mantiene atento y al borde de la intriga, no puedes dejar de leer y leer y leer. Lo lei en una tarde y el hecho de imaginar lo que pasa en el terremoto, la gran devastacion, imaginar carreteras deshechas, arboles arrancados del suelo, un mundo de desesperacion; te hace no despegarte de la historia. Verdaderamente un libro que hace reflexionar tu lugar en este mundo y que hace valorar lo que Dios te ha dado y lo que no tienes.

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Title: True North

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 107 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As David comes to adulthood, enlightened and enlivened at various points by an unforgettable triumvirate of intoxicating women, he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers' rapacious destruction of the wood of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible. With over 30 years of searching for the truth of what his family has done and trying to make amends, David looks close at the root of his father's evil, and threatens, like Icarus, to destroy himself.

Members Reviews:

Good book

Good book. The narrator mispronounces some of the place name, but unless you are familiar with the UP, this should not be a problem, even saying that he has a very pleasant voice, and is great to listen too.

Not Jim Harrison's best book but still good

Jim Harrison is a great author, I was a bit disappointed because he has set his bar so high but not because it is a bad book. Performance was good and it is definitely worth your time.

Michigan's Hemingway? National treasure!

Harrison is a captivating, master storyteller. Set with love in Michigan's north woods and waters.

Fathers and Sons

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

yes, Jim Harrison always writes a convincing and interesting story.

What was one of the most memorable moments of True North?

too many to mention

What does Christopher Lane bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Very good reader

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The father's punishment at Veracruz

Any additional comments?

Interesting and well written story of a boy becoming a man and coming to terms with his father's legacy.

If your a fan

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

No. I think you have to be a Harrison fan to enjoy this one. Those not versed in Harrison might find the editorializing intrusive

What was one of the most memorable moments of True North?

Explanation of Jesse's motivations

Have you listened to any of Christopher Lanes other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

If you could rename True North, what would you call it?

Fifty Shades of Rape

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Title: Light on Snow

Author: Anita Shreve

Narrator: Alyson Silverman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-04

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 150 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the days and weeks that follow, Nicky glimpses corners of the adult world that she never dreamed existed. As she follows the fate of the baby girl and talks with the police officers assigned to investigate, Nicky for the first time asks questions about her life's strange shape. Why has her father moved them to this isolated New England farmhouse? How can they come to terms with the tragedy they left behind? And how can she bridge the chasm between his needs and her own growing sense of the world?

Nicky's ideas about life are thrown into stark relief by the arrival of a young woman haunted by her own terrible choices. Together, Nicky, her father, and this woman must work their way through a thicket of decisions, each one seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption.

With the glorious prose and emotional resonance that have won readers' hearts all over the world, Anita Shreve delivers her deepest and most powerful novel yet, a mesmerizing story of the secrets we keep and the secrets we unearth, and the power of forgiveness to mend even the most battered souls.

Critic Reviews:

"The story shifts brilliantly between childlike visions of a simple world and the growing realization of its cruel ambiguities....Shreve does a skilled job of portraying grief, conflict, and anger while leaving room for hope, redemption, and renewal. Her characters are sympathetic without being pitiable, and her prose remains deceptively simple and eloquent throughout." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

This narrator was perfect.

This is a great story. It's well written, with beautiful descriptions of people and places. I highly enjoyed it, the enjoyment, I am sure, was enhanced by the perfect narration. The narrator's voice is soft and young sounding, much like I would have imagined the character's voice would be. This is one book that is probably better listened to than read.

Light on Snow

I liked this book. It was not earthshaking. It was not a nail biter--Just a very good listen. I really liked the main character and her dad. I found my self laughing out loud at her very young logic.

Light on Snow

I loved this book. It moved me to tears many times. It was raw with emotion and you felt their pain. It was interesting from the beginning and I did not want it to end.

Shreve succeeds

I have been ambivalent about Anita Shreve's books. But I really enjoyed Light on Snow. It held my interest and I didn't find it at all boring. The narrator did a good job telling the story as a 12 year old.

Somewhere between depressing and confused

This is one of those books that you can't stop listening to even though you are really not sure you like....it is intriquing. I found it strange, somewhat depressing. But it had a story, it just lacked something that I can't define. Not a really upbeat book.

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Title: I Am Charlotte Simmons

Author: Tom Wolfe

Narrator: Dylan Baker

Format: Abridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-04

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite, her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's god-like basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turn of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus, she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence, but little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives.

With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

Critic Reviews:

"Like everything Wolfe writes, I Am Charlotte Simmons grabs your interest at the outset and saps the desire to do anything else until you finish." (The New York Times Book Review) "The book is brilliant, wicked, true, and, like everything Wolfe writes, thematically coherent, cunningly well plotted, and delightfully told." (Atlantic Monthly)

Members Reviews:

I Am Charlotte Simmons

I am no book critic and I have never written a review before but I felt compelled to in this case. This audible book is fabulous. There's nothing particularly original about the topic: college, sex, jocks, growing up. But Wolfe's descriptions are exceptional. In addition, the narrator(s) has a remarkable range of voices for the characters used. It brings a level of clarity you won't get with the written version. I've listened to a lot of audible books, but this is truly one of the best.

A disappointment! Avoid the abridged version!!

I purchased the abridged version via ITUNES and found it to be very disconnected. Important segments ended up truncated and the book had essentially no ending. Since I am a big Tom Wolfe fan, I went to B&N to see if the book had been fairly represented. The gaps then became apparent. I ended up buying the unabridged version and now all is well!

chose abridged by accident...

I didn't realize I was listening to an abridged story although I was questioning certain holes in the narrative. By the time I figured it out, I was really ready to be done with these characters. Maybe the unabridged version would have been better, but I can't imagine spending 31 hours with this book. I simply didn't like anyone enough, especially the main character.

Classic Tom Wolfe

As Tom Wolfe says in an interview following the book, this is the first novel where his main character is a female. I was perplexed by the other customer reviewer who called this a book about jocks and geeks. I enjoyed the story, but found it to be a disturbing tale about what higher education has become and what it can do to women. This is the story of how Charlotte Simmons becomes someone else. To say who she becomes would give away the very clever ending of the book.

Tom Wolfe remains a shrewd critic of American social mannerisms. I laughed and cringed.

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Title: The Falls

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-04

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 177 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder, and eventually redemption.

Set against the mythic historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-20th century. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted, and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.

Critic Reviews:

"Powerful, compassionate, and ruefully humorous. The Falls is another example of Oates' inexhaustible brilliance." (BookPage

"Oates spins a haunting story in which nature and humans are equally rapacious and self-destructive." (Publishers Weekly)

"This passionate, compulsively readable novel displays the full range of Oates' singular obsessions: the destructiveness of secrets; eccentric female characters given to rapacious appetites and volatile emotions; and the mysterious way that human emotion is mirrored in the natural world. Vivid and memorable reading from the madly prolific Oates." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Clean Out Your Ears

I must take exception with several reviewers who complained about the narration of this remarkable book: it is equal to the task in every respect. In fact, I ended up searching for other titles read by the same narrator. The book, itself, is worth every moment of the time spent listening and now, two weeks after finishing it, the story continues to haunt me. Those simply looking for a good story will not be disappointed - you get twenty years of plot with intricate twists and turns. Dig a little deeper and you get such remarkable descriptions of characters and situations you actually watch while they materialize in front of you. I occasionally laughed, frequently got angry, and more times than I would like to admit felt a lump form in the back of my throat. Ultimately, you hope for justice for the many injustices thrust upon the characters, and while there is a satisfying conclusion, it feels real rather than contrived. Except for "We We the Mulvaneys" which I read a few years ago, I had not read any other Joyce Carol Oates since attending college in the 1970s. "The Falls" reminded me of what I have been missing. Ms. Oates is a prolific writer and am looking forward to reading everything I've missed over the last 30 years.

Terrible narration

I have to preface this by saying I'm only about three hours into the audiobook. So far, the book itself is fine, but, good Lord, the narration is bad. Anna Fields, whoever she is, keeps launching into these goofy, artificially deep Forrest Gump-sounding voices whenever she reads men's dialogue. Who told her this was engaging? Seriously, she makes them all sound like the Jolly Green Giant. And for the female protagonist's voice, she does this wispy, breathy, totally fake sounding chirp. Really intrusive. Ugh.

Engaging throughout

This was a fully entertaining and captivating book. Weeks later, I still think about the characters.

So LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

This was a pretty good audio book, however a bit long. There were some loose ends in the story line that were left hanging, but all in all a good book.

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Title: The Dogs of Babel

Author: Carolyn Parkhurst

Narrator: Erik Singer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-03

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 223 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

So begins Paul's fantastic and even perilous search for the truth, as he abandons his everyday life to embark on a series of experiments designed to teach his dog Lorelei to communicate. Is this the project of a madman? Or does Lorelei really have something to tell him about the last afternoon of a woman he only thought he knew?

At the same time, Paul obsessively recalls the early days of his love for Lexy and the ups and downs of life with the brilliant, sometimes unsettling woman who became his wife.

Critic Reviews:

"A wonderfully original and richly imaginative novel." (Kermit Moyer, author of Tumbling)

"The brilliance...lies in the subtle buildup of emotion...and how powerfully that emotional wave hits...An unforgettable debut." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Back-story excellent, present story mediocre

The format of this story involves a lot of flashbacks to the main character's past with his wife with splashes of the present thrown in to advance the storyline.

Unfortunately, the actual storyline is not that interesting and I found myself growing anxious waiting to get back to the flashbacks. The flashbacks are wonderful. They are well written and well executed by the narrator.

Just for the flashbacks/backstory, it's well worth listening to.

Like a slow motion train wreck

This book was a real "page turner". I honestly had trouble turning my audible player off. The narration was excellent; haunting and pensive, sad and gripping. Great storytelling. Definately recommended.

Mixed feelings

I both loved and hated this book. The writing and narration are both superb, and the plot, overall, is compelling. I agree with the reader below, who feels that some events in the second half can stretch patience and credibility. And, by the time we get to the ending, it seems a little rushed and pat. Also, I'm with the dog lover below who found some scenes to be almost unbearably painful. But, all in all, I guess I recommend it. . .it does provide some fascinating observations of psychological dynamics, and it is compelling enough to keep one listening, even if with a bit of frustration at times. (How's that for a mixed feelings review. . .?)

Very Unique

I really enjoyed this book. I found it suspensful and interesting. This was my very first book on tape and wow-what a way to start!

DEPRESSING!

I had to finish this book To see if somehow there was good coming out of it. I was greatly disappointed. The reader was fantastic, brings you right into the lives of the characters, so much so I needed tissue, after tissue and it exhausted me. If you've ever had a loved one commit suicide, the book is even worse. Being a dog lover, the tragic happenings of the dog is depressing.