Someone suggested this to me years ago – and I was suspicious because the title feels gimmicky. I started to listen but fatal flaws in the scratched CD prevented me from getting more than about an hour in. I was not impressed enough by that very detailed parallel world of the novel to try and [...]
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THE EYRE AFFAIR by Jasper Fforde
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BODY SURFING by Anita Shreve
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I hoped would be a lighter antidote to THE KITE RUNNER but couldn’t connect with it and I set it aside.
THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
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I found this book so hard to listen to that I had to set it aside for a while. The farther away from it I get, the less likely I think it is that I’ll ever pick it back up. **SPOILER ALERT** There is a scene of child rape early on that is just horrifying [...]
LUNAR PARK by Bret Easton Ellis, read by James Van Der Beek
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A dark, self-indulgent story — I couldn’t bear to keep listening to the arrogant ass of a main character, especially in Dawson’s voice.
THE SPORTSWRITER by Richard Ford
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Felt old, male, a bit dated, a bit sad and Eyore-ish. After the first disk failed to keep my interest, I returned it to the library.
