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Title: Far and Away

Subtitle: A Prize Every Time

Author: Neil Peart

Narrator: Brian Sutherland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Following in the tradition of Ghost Rider and Traveling Music, Rush drummer Neil Peart relates nearly four years of band tours, road trips, and personal discoveries in this introspective travelogue. From the ups and downs of a professional artist to the birth of a child, this revealing narrative recounts 22 adventures from rock's foremost drummer, biker enthusiast, husband, and father. Both playful and insightful, Peart's love of drumming and the open road weaves throughout the stories as Neil explores horizons that are both physical and spiritual, sharing his observations about nature, society, and the self.

Members Reviews:

enjoyed.

I always enjoy his stories and something about Brian Sutherland voice that's really soothing.

can't wait for more.

Good Read... or listen. Smooth Narration.

I really enjoyed this book, but not as much as Ghost Rider. Maybe I just related more to Ghost Rider, but I still would listen/read again and would definitely recommend this.

In addition Brian Sutherland did a excellent job narrating.

great book

another great story from the road from Mr. Peart. highly recommended book.

What a disappointment!

This book does not cover travel or motorcycles much. it is a plotless drivel that came to fruition after a copy and pasted job was completed on a blog of a local celebrity. It is full of useless trivia and superficial observations. The narrator sounds like a 60 year old vegan guy whose joy in life is limited to eating cereal with soy milk in the morning. I have never heard of a rock group called Rush. If you are not a fan then skip and save your 1 credit and a of disappointment.

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Title: Young Orson

Subtitle: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

Author: Patrick McGilligan

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

For the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years - from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane.

No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before. He chronicles Welles' early life growing up in Wisconsin and Illinois, as the son of an alcoholic industrialist and a radical suffragist and classical musician, and the magical early years of his career, including his marriages and affairs, his influential friendships, and his artistic collaborations. The tales of his youthful achievements were so colorful and improbable that Welles, with his air of mischief, was often thought to have made them up. Now, after years of intensive research, McGilligan sorts out fact from fiction and reveals untold, fully documented anecdotes of Welles' first exploits and triumphs, from starring as a teenager on the Gate Theatre stage in Dublin and bullfighting in Seville to his time in the New York theater and his fraught partnership with John Houseman in the Mercury Theatre, and to his arrival in Hollywood and the making of Citizen Kane. Filled with intriguing new insights and startling revelations - including the surprising true origin and meaning of "Rosebud" - Young Orson is a fascinating look at the creative development and influences that shaped this legendary artistic genius.

Members Reviews:

An amazingly interesting and in depth look

By far one of the most interesting and in depth looks at the rise of an artist. The narration was wonderful. The difficult and interesting part about Orson Well as is that there are so many conflicting stories, and opinions, depending on which biography you read, and even from Mr. Welles recollections. I find the rise of this enigmatic genius fascinating, and my compliments to the author and to the narrator ( a bad narration can destroy the best of audio books, but this one was a pleasure to listen to). I wish there were more books about the start and rise of actors and theater. Thank you.

Everything you'd want to know about Orson

The narrative is loaded with excessive detail that doesn't illuminate Welles' personality. It remains a fascinating story and well told if long.

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Title: Irrepressible

Subtitle: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham

Author: Emily Bingham

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision, and she suffered from years of addiction and breakdowns. Perhaps most painfully, she became a source of embarrassment for her family.

But forebears can become fairy-tale figures, especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in whispers. For biographer Emily Bingham, the secret of who her great-aunt was and just why her story was concealed for so long led to Irrepressible. Henrietta rode the cultural cusp as a muse to the Bloomsbury Group, the daughter of the ambassador to the United Kingdom during the rise of Nazism, and a pre-Stonewall figure who never buckled to convention. Henrietta's audacious physicality made her unforgettable in her own time, and her ecstatic and harrowing life serves as an astonishing reminder of the stories lying buried in our own families.

Critic Reviews:

"Deeply researched, Bingham's engrossing biography brings her glamorous, tormented ancestor vividly to life." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

An interesting but ultimately sad life

Interesting look at the life of a woman of means who consorted with many of the bold name figures of the 20's and 30's. Bingham obviously was a very troubled woman. She was a lesbian at a time when it was nearly impossible to live openly in most circles. However, Henrietta Bingham did have the advantage of wealth and the ability to move in circles in which being homosexual was not forbidden or hidden. It was an atmosphere in which she could have made a life for her self with the woman/women she loved but something prevented her from committing to any one -- male or female lovers. Although her homosexuality was certainly the cause of some of her emotional issues, frankly, I thought that the thing in her life that caused the greatest turmoil for her was the fact of having her mother killed in her presence in a horrific train/car accident and subsequently seeing her father marry Mary Lily Flagler and then having her die under questionable circumstances which dogged the father for the rest of his life. It also was obvious that Robert Worth Bingham, her father, had a suffocating attachment to her and she to him -- and she spent her life trying to "escape" that attachment but never successfully made the break that she so desperately needed to make.

Ultimately it's a sad story and a sad life. I kept waiting for Henrietta to drop the faade and live with the woman she loved but -- she didn't and instead allowed herself to drift into drinking and drugs and basically wasted her life having accomplished nothing of importance. Her father was suffocating but he also provided her with the money to live well and he was also willing to give her the opportunity to takeover and run the newspaper that he owned. That kind of thinking on his part for his only daughter was far outside the mold of men in the 1930's.

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Title: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Carrie Brownstein

Narrator: Carrie Brownstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history.

Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power and mystery of a live performance. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s. They would be cited as "America's best rock band" by legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant brand of punk that resisted labels and limitations and redefined notions of gender in rock.

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era's flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later.

With deft, lucid prose, Brownstein proves herself as formidable as on the stage. Accessibly raw, honest and heartfelt, this book captures the experience of being a young woman, a born performer and an outsider and ultimately finding one's true calling through hard work, courage and the intoxicating power of rock and roll.

Members Reviews:

Astounding.

Well. I was prepared to love this book; after all, Sleater-Kinney has held a huge importance in my life since I first heard them over 10 years ago. For me, Sleater-Kinney has always transcended the limitations of riotgrrrl and existed in an incredibly original space. Their music is liminal; to listen is to exist in the hallowed space between Carrie, Corin and Janet where the listener is not only witness to but actually of the music. What I was not prepared for is just how incredible Carrie Brownsteins memoir, Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl would be. Carrie writes with the most incredible precision about her childhood feeling distant and alienated from her parents, her anxious need to perform in order to cope and how Sleater-Kinney inspired a generation. Carrie is an incredibly brave and honest writer who never shies away from the ugly parts; of herself or of the pseudo-inclusionist riotgrrrl scene and the result is a thing of beauty and clarity.

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Title: Amazing Fantastic Incredible

Subtitle: A Marvelous Memoir

Author: Stan Lee, Peter David, Colleen Doran

Narrator: Peter Riegert, Stan Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-15

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 129 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Stan Lee - comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes - shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be.

Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he has been the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics and has brought to life - and into the mainstream - some of the world's best-known heroes and most infamous villains throughout his career. His stories - filled with superheroes struggling with personal hang-ups and bad guys who possess previously unseen psychological complexity - have added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good versus evil. Lee put the human in superhuman and in doing so created a new mythology for the 20th century.

Stan Lee tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comics. Moving from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, through his military training films during World War II and the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to the current resurgence in movies, Amazing Fantastic Incredible documents the life of a man and the legacy of an industry and career.

Funny, moving, and incredibly honest, this beautiful memoir is a must-have for collectors and fans of comic books and graphic novels of every age.

Critic Reviews:

"[Narrator Peter] Reigart does an 'amazing, fantastic, incredible' job bottling Lee's enthusiasm and tendency to speak in superlatives." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Stan is 'The MAN!'. Listening with boys is best!

Excellent job! so awesome to listen to the story of how Stan came up with the characters that we have all learn to love.

cute, funny, short and very well narrated story.

Stan is the man and this is his story (in brief). A fun and entertaining read.

A glorious conversation with a great story teller

Would you listen to Amazing Fantastic Incredible again? Why?

Having heard the whole story (very economically shrunk down to less than 2 hours), I look forward to hearing it again.

What did you like best about this story?

Stan Lee is an American treasure and in a league with Aesop, Doyle, Dickens, Steven King and World Wrestling Entertainment. "Just a couple of guys writing and drawing stories" have become a world-wide franchise and their characters beloved by millions.

What does Peter Riegert and Stan Lee bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

By turns humble, hilarious and intriguingly introspective, this is definitely a story only Stan could deliver.

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

This is an "American Dream" story - good guys working hard and (eventually) getting the success and accolades beyond their wildest dreams. Inspirational - with really awful jokes along the way.

Any additional comments?

Irresistible. I dare you to hit the stop button and interrupt this wild and wonderful tale.

Loved It

It was so fun and entertaining! Definitely made my work day a lot better. Stan Lee is the man!!!

way too thin

Unfortunately, I would have loved a lot more detail on Stan's memoir.

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Title: The Man with the Golden Typewriter

Author: Ian Fleming, Fergus Fleming

Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold'.

And he did write golden words: 14 best-selling James Bond books, and an equally energetic flow of letters to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress with correspondence that ranged from badgering Jonathan Cape about his quota of free copies - a coin was tossed; Fleming lost - to apologising for having mistaken a certain brand of perfume and for equipping Bond with the wrong kind of gun.

Critic Reviews:

"British actor Julian Rhind-Tutt thoughtfully and expressively narrates the letters of author Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.... Rhind-Tutt's voice has a warmth and charm that mesh well with the text.... Fleming's many fans will enjoy this inside look at the author and his works." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Even his letters are fun to read

Ian Fleming never read a piece of hate mail he didn't like.

Numerous examples can be found in THE MAN WITH THE

GOLDEN TYPEWRITER. The book contains lots of hilarious

Fleming prose, a writerly side of him you don't see in James

Bond. He could've given Wodehouse a run for his money had

he written about the upper crust instead of spies. Fleming's

pen pal Raymond Chandler said "never answer your critics"

but Fleming had no compunction about taking the piss out of

all detractors, winning them over with sarcasm and comedy first.

These letters reveal plenty about Ian Fleming and, to be honest,

I wasn't expecting that.

Excellent Collection

In the last 51 years, Iâve read a great deal about James Bond and Ian Fleming â yet nothing that quite measures up to this collection. Even outside his books, Fleming as a writer is never âoff duty.â In his business and personal correspondence, he gives the nuts and bolts as his varied projects develop, and his comments about his and his associatesâ lives hold the readerâs attention. While Flemingâs approach generally appears casual, his letters are consistently informative as well as amusing. His nephew, Fergus Fleming, who edited this collection, provides context and notes that are helpful without being intrusive.

This is a MUST for Bond and Fleming fans!!!

For Bond and Ian Fleming fans....this is a MUST!!! I highly recommend reading this alongside with the book "Goldeneye, Where James Bond was Born" by Matthew Parker. They are perfect companion pieces in that this book has the letters that Ian Fleming has written during the creation and publishing of Bond and the other is where Bond's creation takes place. Totally fascinating reading and terribly sorry that I'm done reading the book.

glad I got this book

very worthwhile read, recommend it very highly

I enjoyed the vocabulary and the book immensely

An exceptional collections of correspondence from back in the days when people wrote letters and constructed a proper sentence. I enjoyed the vocabulary and the book immensely.

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Title: Becoming Beyoncé

Subtitle: The Untold Story

Author: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-15

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 75 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

A Billboard Must-Read Fall 2015 Music Book

The first comprehensive biography ever published about America's favorite living pop icon, Beyoncé, from New York Times best-selling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli.

Beyoncé Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of 16, she had her first number-one record with Destiny's Child. That hit-making trio launched Beyoncé's successful solo career, catapulting her, as of 2014, to number one on Forbes' annual list of most wealthy celebrities - the same year she made the cover of Time. Becoming Beyoncé is not only the story of struggle, sacrifice, and what it takes to make it in the cut-throat record industry; it's the story of the great rewards of such success and the devastating toll it often takes on the human spirit.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

The reader was HORRIBLE!!! Almost offensive!!!

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

Yes. Beyonce's life story is amazing.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Becoming Beyoncé?

All of it was memorable. Impossible to pick just one.

How could the performance have been better?

Yes. The performance was appalling.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A remarkable Life.

Any additional comments?

I can't stress enough how bad the reader was!

DRY AS A BONE...AND HEARD IT ALL BEFORE ON BLOGS..

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

If the material had not been recycled from old articles and interviews that had already been exposed over the past 15 years. I kept waiting for something NEW or insight.....

why on earth was this book 18 hours? The first 1/3 of book is well researched, but after that everything felt recycled from interviews already given and fully availble online. And if you are a fan, you have ALL of this knowlege.....Please don't waste your money....

Has Becoming Beyoncé turned you off from other books in this genre?

Yes, I had placed other books this author had done on Marylin Monroe, Michael Jackson, Dianah Ross, delted them all from my list of ones to get.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

yes, but maybe some serious editing needed....as far as 18 hours. I thought I was getting something good. It only emphasized what we already know about Beyonce, hard worker, gives 100%

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

i kept waiting for the big reveal. It is well documented by words herself in the press and her own documentary in Life is but a dream. and countless other magazine interviews.

Any additional comments?

no....too dull....

meh

boring average very few revelations. no recommendation. you may as well read the Enquirer. I want my audible credit back.

Way too long...way too boring

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

I have read books by J. Randy Taraborrelli before. They were not bad, so I was excited to download this book, even though I am not a Beyonce follower.

Sorry, but this was painful. I cannot believe it took this long to basically say the same things over again.

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Title: An Unauthorized Guide to William Kent Krueger

Subtitle: The Author of the Cork O'Connor Series

Author: Malcolm Stone

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-15

Publisher: Malcolm Stone

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook profiles William Kent Krueger. In his late 40s, when his career as a writer took off, Krueger has established himself as a successful mystery novelist. Find out how he became a writer and how his career has developed.

Members Reviews:

Thin outline.

I had hoped to learn more about how and why he incorporated Anishinabe culture into his novels. Did he personally spend time in the Boundary Waters and Quetico Park? How much time has he spent in Ely, Minnesota?

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Title: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

The surprising final chapter of a great American life

When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist's life and times. This third and final volume crowns and completes his life's work. Like its companion volumes, it chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads.

Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of his life: receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University; railing against Theodore Roosevelt, founding numerous clubs; incredulous at an exhibition of the Holy Grail; credulous about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays; relaxing in Bermuda; observing (and investing in) new technologies. The autobiography's "Closing Words" movingly commemorate his daughter, Jean, who died on Christmas Eve 1909. Also included in this volume is the previously unpublished "Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript", Mark Twain's caustic indictment of his "putrescent pair" of secretaries and the havoc that erupted in his house during their residency.

Fitfully published in fragments at intervals throughout the 20th century, Autobiography of Mark Twain has now been critically reconstructed and made available as it was intended to be read. Fully annotated by the editors of the Mark Twain Project, the complete autobiography emerges as a landmark publication in American literature.

Members Reviews:

Worth waiting for

And so the great dictation comes to an end. It's been a wonderful adventure, and I'm glad I lived to read and hear all of it. As I may have mentioned in reviews of the earlier installments, I learned of Mark Twain's autobiography when I was about 12 years old, but it was always described as something fragmentary and unfinished and unpublished and unpublishable. But here it is, in perfectly comprehensible order, and here he is, talking to a stenographer, correcting himself as he goes along, backtracking, changing his mind, jumping back and forth through the years like a Time Lord - yet always in perfect control of the effect he's trying to achieve.

Among other things to be gleaned from this volume are that Mark Twain really, really disliked Theodore Roosevelt; and that he really, really, REALLY disliked his former secretary Isabel Lyon. Roosevelt was exactly the kind of aggressive, macho poseur that Twain despised: a warmonger and big-game hunter who charged up hills with guns blazing, no matter what the cost - to others. Twain tells an hysterically funny story of TR tracking a great bear for three days, only to discover, when he finally caught up with it, that it was a cow. Is it true? It should be.

Isabel Lyon is a more complicated case. The real meat of this story comes not in the autobiography itself but in a three-hour-long "prosecutor's brief" that Twain wrote, in the last year of his life, apparently to get his own thoughts in order. It's included here as an appendix. I've read about this episode from several points of view. After years of service, Twain fired Lyon and sued her for misappropriated funds.

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Title: Ted Hughes

Subtitle: The Unauthorized Life

Author: Jonathan Bate

Narrator: Mike Grady

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-15

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.

With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry.

Hughes left behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughes' inner life, which he preserved for posterity. Renowned scholar Jonathan Bate has spent five years in the Hughes archives, unearthing a wealth of new material. His book offers, for the first time, the full story of Hughes' life as it was lived, remembered, and reshaped in his art. It is a book that honors, though not uncritically, Hughes' poetry and the art of life writing, approached by his biographer with an honesty answerable to Hughes' own.

Members Reviews:

Phenomenal thanks to narrator!

Being more of a Sylvia Plath fan, I hesitated in wanting to learn about Ted Hughes, but I must say between the superb writing and compelling and warm narration, I was always eager to continue listening to this audible book. Unlike Mad Girl's Love Song about Plath whose narrator ruined the total book for me, this narrator did the opposite and drew me into the world of Hughes again and again. Bravo!

Great Dead Poet

Maybe the speculative analysis was too long, but in the end, it delivered some good insights and a better understanding of his journey