MP

An interesting story, well read. It lags a little bit in the middle but the last third is completely gripping.

One of the best - and most gripping - biographies I have ever read. The reader is excellent - even his approximation of various accents is good and not distracting.

It's hard to believe that that this book got written. Collins & Lapierre have left no stone unturned. Everyone, whether a big or a small player in this dramatic story, has been interviewed. As a result, the book is a gripping account not of just the big event - the liberation of Paris - but the hundreds of people involved and their emotions, actions and rationale during the days and weeks leading up to the Allied forces entering the city.

The reader is somewhat arch and this detracts somewhat from the story - but not very much and I wouldn't let that deter you. It's a wonderful tale that reads almost like a novel. And it's very intense.

Good and gossipy, if not always accurate (of course, it's Lowe's story so he can tell it however he wants to tell it). And, of course, the narration is excellent.

Simply excellent, on all levels. Even better than Seabiscuit (and that's saying a lot!).

I don't understand why people who try to piggy-back onto Austen's works keep missing one of the most obvious aspects of Austen's writing: Austen NEVER tells us what a character is thinking, only what they are doing and saying. And they always miss the sly humor Austen brought to her characters, especially in Pride and Prejudice.

This books suffers from those same faults (this Darcy is absolutely not Austen's austere Darcy; he's more mushy. And, this Elizabeth is downright boring. ). That being said, it's PD James so it's an OK listen. It does drag a bit here and there. .

Carolly Erickson doesn't write intensely detailed political history; it's personal history and this is what you get with this book. But this book is quite interesting and the narrator is excellent (as Mr. Runger always is - e.g., listen to his reading of "Endurance" and you will be hooked on him forever).

I loved "Austenland" but this is much less well-thought out story. And the narrator is very annoying (actually, Charlotte, the main character, is pretty annoying, too - or maybe it's because she strikes me as being absurdly dumb). Skip it.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to; it's an interesting story, with the history mixed well with the romance. Not a "romance" per se - much more literary than that.

The book is, of course, terrific. In this reading, it finally has a narrator worthy of it. One of the best narrations of any of the many books I've heard from Audible. There were times when I laughed out loud.