Flanagan’s Run

I am not a runner, but I loved this book. The characters are so real, the story an interesting one, narrator did a great job. Definately a 5 star listen. I hope to see more from this author.

I don't know how one can call an audiobook a page turner with a straight face but this recording was absolutely riviting. I stayed up late to finish it because I couldn't bear to stop. The reader did an excellent job and it was very exciting. It's been a while since a book pulled me into it this deep.

I woke up thinking about the characters and what became of them this morning. It told you about the main characters but there were almost a thousand runners who finished. I had to keep reminding myself that this is a work of fiction because I really cared what happened to these people after they completed such a huge event. I do have a problem separating fictional people from non fictional people sometimes. What a silly person I can be. But anyway, a delightful, exciting read that's for sure.

I purchased this book just to hear Rubert Degas reading to me again; his character voices and accents are exceptional. What I found in this book was the best of all worlds - an extraordinary narrator reading an excellent novel. The characters and story pulled me in from the start and I listed to the last 30 minutes twice just to relish the ending. I hope Tom McNab and Rubert Degas team up again VERY soon!
- John's wife

I started this book hoping to be inspired by the running. What I discovered was far more than a simple novel on running. (I have run 2 marathons, once beating Oprah Winfrey in the 1994 Marine Corps Marathon. Normally you just want to finish, but who wants to get beat by Oprah!)

In Forest Gump fashion, the 3000 mile race takes in most of the historical American figures of the 1930s. There's Mary Pickford, Douglass Fairbanks, Will Rogers, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone and Frank Nitty, J Edgar Hoover just to name a few.

Author Tom McNab creates some of the most colorful characters I've experienced since McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. Each person is motivated by their own circumstances, well written by a master story teller. He does a wonderful job creating a competition between runners that kept me riveted to the end.

If a similar event was held today there would be little fanfare. Pulling off such an event in 1931, with the world in a depression and corruption rampant throughout America, would require more than a few miracles. Once again McNab delivers in Lonesome Dove style with a group of people who must overcome disaster after disaster to reach their final goal.

Rupert Degas handles a myriad of diverse voices together with a great deal of suspense as well as any one I've heard.

This one gets 5 stars on great characters and just plain fun!

I rooted for the wonderful characters who ran in the race from the beginning to the end. There wasn't a boring section in this book. One of the best audiobooks I've listened to in a while.

Flanagan's Run is a great book to listen to while running. You can't help but be motivated by the story of these runners making their way across the country in all kinds of weather and conditions. The story is well paced and exciting.

However the thing that pushed this book into a five star rating is the amazing job of the narrator Rupert Degas. I have listened to so many wonderful audiobooks but he's in a class by himself. At one point, I even came back to the website to see if there were more than one narrator because the voices of the characters were so distinct and believable. This is a fun story, with likable characters who triumph over long odds.

Chose this book because I thought it would be great to run and listen to since its based on a long distance run. Turns out shortly after downloading I broke my foot running.

Thought about holding off and waiting until my foot healed but I started listening and was instantly hooked. While being interested in running wouldn't hurt, its definitely not needed. What really sucked me into this book was the amazing stories along the run across America (The Transamerica). Most were completely unrelated to running rather the struggles to keep the run going in depression era America and focusing in on a subset of key runners through the race. The narrator (Rupert Degas) is by far the best I have experienced taking on male and female characters from all over the world (Scottish, Mexican, French etc ...)

Well, the performance was hands down the very best with nothing close. The narrator, Rubert Degas, is amazing. I will even be going on a search for books narrated by him because the accents he did for the different characters were so amazing!

Again, I might have to say the narration but I also loved the stories and the characters. I really felt like I knew them and related to them. This was a great book to pass the time away while running and biking. Just super enjoyable and amusing. I'd always look forward to my next run, spin bike session, commute to hear how the next part of the story played out.

His brilliant use of accents made everything come so much more to life than if I'd just read it.

Definitely had me laughing at times. Really enjoyed it.

This book shines based off its character development and narration. Degas is a master of narration, he can make an average book a 5 star audiobook. The story line kept my interest though felt carnival like. A little unrealistic to a point of creating disinterest in the plot of some of the chapters. If you are a runner, even more so a marathon runner, this is a 5 star book. For everyone else, a solid 4 star book (probably in large part because of the excellent narration) and a good use of a credit. A nice change of pace for me.

Storyline and history combined

Never knew what crazy thing they'd end up in next.

Doc cold then Kate Sheridan

The scot

Long but worth it. You really know characters by the end.