I like history, so this was a good book. It's a bit choppy going in between Marconi and the radio, and the actual murder though. The unabridged may be a bit better for those that want to get to the point. There have been some recent developments in this case since the book that you may want to look at after you listen to this book.

This would have been better if it had been written as a science history book which is how it read. The murder mystery part of it was lost in the science history of telegraph communications.

This is not a novel so much as it is a history lesson. I got all the way through it and I do not regret the purchase, but be warned, its less story and more fact in chronological order.

I enjoyed the story, but I was having a hard time listening to more than a half hour at a time. It took me half the book to realize the reading was very disjointed. The narrator seemed to add a comma to almost every sentence, breaking them up into short, choppy sections, and this made it very hard to listen to.

The story by Larsen was what I have come to expect from him after reading one and listening to another of his books.

While perhaps not up to the level of Devil in the White City, I found Thunderstruck completely captivating. Just as in his previous book, both plots are very engaging. As the author admits in the prologue, sometimes the detail is just a bit over the top, but the vast majority of the time the extra bits of trivia are quite interesting.

While the narrator starts out speaking quickly at the very beginning (and only the beginning), I had no other issues with the narration. It was clear and never detracted from the story.

Way too technical which made the story uninteresting & boring. One would think compensation was by word, tedious or not.

Outstanding reader and compelling story. Unfortunately, the piece skipped three separate times. I was unable, even with rewinding, to play the skipped sections.

Feeling the tension of Marconi, and the ignorance of Belle, and the love between the two.(No spoilers)

When they talk about the retrieval of Belle

Dr. Crippen

I couldn't it was to long. I read it in a day.

Erik Larson is such a fine writer. I would love to sit down and talk with him sometime. Please write about WW 2- Pearl Harbor, Edward 6, Titanic etc

The story was a slough. Felt like I was trudging in quicksand. Could not get past chapter 4.

To start out with main story without all the history leading up to it.

To detailed in science

He didn't have much to work with.

The entire beginning. He looses the ready very quickly.

I think this is on the second book I wished I hadn't purchased in all the years with Audio Books.