![]() With the public still clamoring to learn what really happened to JFK al these many years later, who in tarnation needs a fictional account, one where you can't tell the real bits from the made up ones? And who in tarnation wants to hear a disinterested morally ambiguous take on Oswald as a protagonist? I'm not going to waste another 15 hours trying to figure out if that person is me, not after such an awful first 3 hours. ![]() If all it took me was two minutes of skimming Audible reviews to conclude that readers routinely hate this narrator no matter what he reads, surely the producers of this audiobook could have done better. Releasing an audio edition of a classic novel nearly 30 years after its heralded release, from a boundless choice of narrators, these folks landed on a guy another reviewer aptly described as Joe Friday (before seeing that, I was thinking General Jack Ripper from Dr. If nothing else, the narration is dreadful. 3 hours in, all I can say is, life's too short to waste another 15 hours on this. My lifetime rate with print books, of which I must have read thousands in my 60 years, has got to be the tiniest fraction under 100% - I always finish what I start. ![]() That's a pretty good record, 98-99% completion rate. Having started close to 300 audiobooks, this is maybe the fourth or fifth time I'm bailing out. ![]()
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