Kitty
An interesting biography - well written. Full of surprises for someone not acquainted with Dahl's life. Whoever knew his first book was made into a Walt Disney movie - with Dahl being quite a pain in the ass for everyone? I Read this as an audiobook on Storytel, months ago, so it's not fresh in my mind. But I loved it - it was off detail, and as much about his work as about his private life.
Listen to the audiobook of this memoir of his life before presidency, because Obama reads it himself and his timing is uncanny, his accents astoundingly good - he could have become an actor, easily. Which should tell us something. The story itself is interesting and entertaining.
I listened to this book as an audiobook - narrated by SAUL REICHLIN - and loved how he mastered all the different South-African accents and languages. Audiobooks can really improve a reading experience this way. The book is fast paced and suspension is built in quickly - with lots of quick cutovers to different scenes. Very movie-like. The people that populate it are however what make it a very enjoyable read - as always with the best thrillers. Recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel, the ueber-polite inspector Wussi, the feminist inspector that no ones likes but who is always right - and the jokes that get cracked about the New South-Africa - great fun. Also, the way the plot got finished up in the end was very satisfying. No rush to end the book there, but a nice rolling out of new possibilities for the main actors.
Nice tale, unsatisfying end. Nothing surpasses Wives and Daughters in her oeuvre, I think.
What a horrible book. Full of nasty yet very flat characters. An unconvincing premise. And what will happen is laid out at the start. I gave up near the end, and I don't know why I read all thet way. I wonder If Ruth Rendell really enjoyed herself while writing it.
Abandoned. Well written, but it utterly lacks humor, irony, any self deprication. Therefore boring.
Interesting, multi layered plot, well written, quality never sags. Nice cast of characters. All in all, pretty addictive.
Abandoned at 40%. Possibly because I am not a native speaker - I could not enjoy the dialogue as much as I think I should have. Also kept losing track of what happened to whom.
Great storytelling, but his books always leave me feeling somewhat besmirched. Such love of capitalism and monarchy etc.
Dreary. It kept going nowhere, and it kept replicating a lot of things from Kain and Able (part one). I gave up in chapter 10.
3/4 finished, but could not be bothered anymore. Too pc. A biography might be more interesting.
DNF after 80%. Other than The Moonstone, The Woman in White and No Name, I find this book rather tedious. And rather contrived. Could not be bothered to find out how it ends.
Same as the other one I read - great style, great characterisation, somewhat boring plot.
Not mych information. Everything is anecdotal. Not even an idea of how many women the author interviewed.
Comparable to Robin Hobbs. Heroes in pre-industrial fantasy world, slightly magical, save the day - over and over again. Great escape stuff. Nice characters, full of action.
An utterly charming and very British book. Good plot, very nice characters. This is a book that I did not even mind listening to large parts twice for, as I fell asleep totally soorhed and picked up things I had missed the first time;-) But also because all of it pleased me. The pace, the rich style. Just very charming, never gruesome, and I must admit I like it when the protagonists are of an advanced age.