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John

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  • On Chesil Beach | [Ian McEwan]
    On Chesil Beach
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    On Chesil Beach

    • UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Ian McEwan
    • Narrated By Ian McEwan
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (210)
    Performance
    (24)
    Story
    (23)

    It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come.

    George says: "One of the best new novels in recent years"
    "Inthrolling story many of us have faced in life."
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    Would you listen to On Chesil Beach again? Why?

    Yes, not to miss anything.


    What did you like best about this story?

    How we are all victims of our ingnorance.


    Have you listened to any of Ian McEwan’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

    No. But I plan to.


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    No


    Any additional comments?

    I was facinated with the iterview with the author that came after the story end.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: The Greening of Mrs Donaldson & The Shielding of Mrs Forbes | [Alan Bennett]
    Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: The Greening of Mrs Donaldson & The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
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    Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: The Greening of Mrs Donaldson & The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

    • UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 52 mins)
    • By Alan Bennett
    • Narrated By Alan Bennett
    Overall
    (38)
    Performance
    (32)
    Story
    (29)

    Two unexpected tales written and read by the best-selling author of The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories and The History Boys."The Greening of Mrs Donaldson" - Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating…

    John says: "A fun British story about unmentionable subjects!"
    "A fun British story about unmentionable subjects!"
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    Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

    If one enjoyes British humor this is a fun book on delicate subjects in story form.


    What was one of the most memorable moments of Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: The Greening of Mrs Donaldson & The Shielding of Mrs Forbes?

    I was not expecting the second story to be as good as the first, and if anything it was better. The openous of what are usually non open subjects, told in a delightful manner.


    What does Alan Bennett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

    His English accent that adds to this story


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    The book is short, but I feel it is better enjoyed taking each story seperately.


    Any additional comments?

    The story takes a tongue & cheek view in the British style that would be hard to be so open about told by an American author or reader.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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