Don's comments (member since Sep 06, 2009)

Don's comments from the All Ears Audiobooks group.

I just finished the very long [21h:] The Forgotten Garden. I could only give the book 2 stars. Rather than recapitulate my review here, I wanted to criticize its musical interludes. They were very helpful in marking chapter boundaries, which in this book were important because it switched between 3 time lines. However, the insipid tune became irritating by the 40th or so chapter. I can't quite figure out what was so irritating other than the tune's maudlin character. What makes a good interlude? Should it vary or always be the same recording?

Julie at All Ears wrote: "I want to see the movie - people have told me that it is well done.
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It quickly diverges from the book plot and has a very different ending, if I remember correctly.

I thought both Alice and Magua were weakly constructed--too one dimensional.

Julie at All Ears wrote: "...The Last of the Mohicans ... Now, what did I not like - the writing style! This book was so wordy and hard to slug through...."

I just finished reading (not listening) to this book and loved it; however, the wordiness was obvious. I think it may have the same cause as Dicken's wordiness: paid by the word. I'm surprised the audio added the footnotes.