Andrew

I have the hardcover of this very fine book and was looking forward to reviewing it in audio form. However, the narrator uses a voice more common to perhaps a batman comic book, and somewhere along the line a decision was made that rather than simply using a change of voice to indicate quoted material, the author changes his voice in a terribly weak attempt to sound like the quoted character...he does this even with female voices. His attempts at a "Harvard" accent when quoting the brothers Kennedy and other characters in the book is a terrible distraction to otherwise fine material. I give two starts based upon content alone...and that would be higher but the narrator is such a disappointment that the score must be driven down. Perhaps because my most recent audio book was David McCullough's 1776 and he does such a great job I was expecting too much, but this work is very, very difficult to listen to. I mean, really, does he HAVE to try to impersonate Rose Kennedy in order to get his point across?