Thirteen Moons
by Charles Frazier, Read by Will Patton, 2006. This story is about the life of an individual who moved west to North Carolina as a youth in the early part of the nineteenth century and the subsequent events in his … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Fiction
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by Ian McEwan, Read by Steven Crossley, 2005 by Ian McEwan, 2005 by Recorded Books, LLC This book has some positive qualities such as the depiction of the main character. He is very believable and one can relate to his … Continue reading →
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett, 1989 This is an interesting book, and a quick read, about the building of a cathedral in medieval England. It is well researched and provided a lot of insight regarding how life was in those times. Follet was … Continue reading →
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy, Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Wow! This one took me over four months to read. I wasn’t sure whether I would ever get through it. The issue wasn’t that it was so long; … Continue reading →
The Cat Who Went Up The Creek
by Lilian Jackson Braun, Read by George Guidall, 2002 by Lilian Jackson Braun, 2002 by Recorded Books, LLC Since I am a cat person (we have three cats), I always wondered what these books were like. We had a long … Continue reading →
The Bridesmaid
by Ruth Rendell, Read by Barbara Rosenblat We listened to this recorded book on a long road trip. The writing is fairly decent and the characters are pretty well developed. The book is billed as a mystery, however, and its downfall … Continue reading →
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy, 2006, Vintage International, New York This book is a very quick read and it really moves along. There are a few places in the book, however, that are a bit hard to follow. The villain of the … Continue reading →
Everyman
by Phillip Roth, 2006, Recorded Books, LLC, read by George Guidall This book is the story of a man who lived his life thinking he was doing all the right things, only to end up dying alone. The man suffered a great … Continue reading →
The Colorado Kid
by Stephen King, 2005, Audioworks (Simon & Shuster), read by Jeffrey DeMunn This book was very pleasant to listen to. The characters are wonderful and the reading by Jeffrey DeMunn captures their Down-East Maine accents very well. Because the entire … Continue reading →
Telegraph Days
by Larry McMurtry, 2006 I listened to this audiobook on a long, three-day trip from Florida to New England and that is the only reason I finished it. This effort by Larry McMurtry is feeble. It is an attempt to … Continue reading →