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The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Start date: November 1, 2023

Finish date: November 30, 2023

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Sep 09, 2014 Krissy rated it it was ok

Shelves: audiobook, cover-color-black, read-before-2015, pgs-300-399

First of all the narrator they chose for the audiobook version was all wrong. Most of the characters were young but yet the narrator sounded like a 60 year old man. He didn't do female voices very well and listening to him try and talk like a 6 year old girl was almost laughable. Plus all his female characters sounded the same. I just did not like him at all.

Now for the story itself. It took a very long time to actually get interesting. First you had all these characters thrown at you all at on ...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Brandi marked it as did-not-finish

I don't know what happened. I really loved Jim Dale as the narrator of the Harry Potter books and I've heard wonderful things about this book. I just couldn't get into Dale's narration. Perhaps I will try to read a hard copy of it and see if my opinions change. ...more

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Jun 01, 2012 Kris Springer rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult-fic-to-read

Charming, beautiful, imaginative. Fascinating read; made me wish for a Circus of Dreams.

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Jan 04, 2012 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: rws-2013-summer, fantasy-sci-fi, audiobooks, 2013-read

The narration by Jim Dale for the unabridged audio version was excellent. He managed to convey the mystery and fantasy of the tents beautifully.

The book has a wonderful premise--a fantastical circus that is magical or perhaps just superbly managed illusions that appears in seemingly random locations and is only open at night. Behind the scenes, a host of characters add layers of mystery. The descriptions of the different tents at the circus was clever and wondrous. Unfortunately, the author coul ...more

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Sep 21, 2012 Dana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: moms-club-book-club

For the first half I thought it was okay. The short snippets centered around different characters at different times were interesting, but not compelling enough to make me want to move on to the next chapter, so it took me awhile to get through it. Around the halfway point, as the characters were better developed and the story move magical, I was totally drawn in. From then on I hated to put it down. I enjoyed the magical world and the people in it. I'd heard the ending was disappointing but I t ...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Beth rated it liked it

Loved loved the first half of this book. The second half was completely disappointing and slow.

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Aug 30, 2012 Daphne rated it really liked it

Magical.

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Dec 06, 2011 Larissa rated it liked it

This book was a unique story and very creative writing and characters, but there was something in it that did not add that extra "magic" to a really great book that deserves 4 or 5 stars. ...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Amy Ellis rated it it was ok

This book has great visual imagery but left me kind of confused. The plot is vague, and the romance is a little contrived. Hmmm...still wondering about this one.

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