Waiting to Be Heard

A Memoir

By: Amanda Knox

Narrated by: Amanda Knox

Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit. In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment. After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now.

Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved. With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy - a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication - and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom.

©2013 Amanda Knox (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers

Good listen

Where does Waiting to Be Heard rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Much of what we hear from Amanda we already heard in the news. However, it was somewhat shocking to hear from Amanda's perspective all that took place in Italy. It became a true psychological study of a young woman. I quickly gathered a clear understooding of how easy it was for her to get caught up in this awful murder, completely unaware of how she was implicating herself.

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

Hearing Amanda's inflections and her still vivid emotions to all that took place was quite moving.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Throughout the book the constant support and sacrifice her family made to insure her safety was remarkable and many time very ingenius.

Any additional comments?

I think this is a great listen and very informative, especially for Americans who seem to travel believing they have all the same rights as what they have here in America.

Wow

Any additional comments?

What a compelling story. I hope Amamda reads these reviews because I just want to tell her that her story moved me in a way many books have not. Having a daughter myself I can appreciate the anguish her family and friends must have gone through. The effect of her reading this herself just added enormously to the overall impression of the book. Kudos Kid, and have a great life.

Well Written

If you could sum up Waiting to Be Heard in three words, what would they be?

Honest insightful account.

What did you like best about this story?

Details regarding Knox trial.

Which character – as performed by Amanda Knox – was your favorite?

Book also narrated by Amanda Knox. Good Narrator.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No extreme reaction.

Any additional comments?

Well written and narrated.

Waiting to be Heard by Amanda Knox

Where does Waiting to Be Heard rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

One of the very best. Her story, read by her. Listen.

What other book might you compare Waiting to Be Heard to and why?

I also recommend Honor Bound by Raffaele Sollecito. You will have a better understanding of what they went through.

Which scene was your favorite?

Her release from prison.

Absolutely loved it and will listen to it again.

I absolutely loved it and will listen to it again. Having Amanda narrating it helped really understand her feelings.

Great job, just a bit too long for me

Excellent account by Amanda Knox. Only complaint is that it was too detailed and drawn out for my liking. She certainly tells her heartbreaking story very well and her narration couldn't be better.

Would have liked some info as to how and what she's been doing since book was published.

Definitely recommend!

Well narrated, compelling story

The narrator did such a fine job, I feel she could have a future narrating other audio books. The pacing of the story is just right and crafted to keep you interested.
What a naive girl Amanda is at the start! It's painful to hear her foolish view of things, but she is gradually wiser and that's a well-capped part of the journey inherent in the story.

You NEED to hear this Story...

My Goodness...I followed Amanda's Story for year and Cheered her release, I watched her step down in Seattle and was overcome with her ordeal, story, circumstance...whatever you may want to call it...her Freedom and Acquittal made me CHEER!!! The fact that Amanda narrates her novel grips you...READ THIS!!!

Amazing

Her strength and courage is astounding. She was so young, yet handled herself so well. None of us know how we would have behaved during the interrogation. I loved her honesty, and this story is heartbreaking for so many reasons. Truth finally won.

How naive can one 'girl' be?

I was engrossed by this listen and finished it in two days. It brought various feelings up to the surface for me. Initially, when I saw this story in the newspapers, I believed Amanda was guilty. However, after listening to her self-narrated story, I do not believe she nor her boyfriend were guilty of the murder of her roommate, Meredith. I do wonder if she knows more than she was ever willing to tell and perhaps we will never know the answer to this this.

I felt unable to dredge up any sympathy for Amanda throughout her telling of her story. She did nothing to help her case. Actually, I believe she never took this entire event seriously until the outcome of her trial, when she received a very long sentence, much to her surprise.

Amanda refused to listen to anyone's advice consistently. Her aunt advised her to call the US embassy, to get an attorney (as her roommates did), she was advised by her attorneys not to discuss her case, but she knew better than anyone how to behave. Some of her behaviors included not shedding a tear when her roommate's body was found, being seen in an interrogation room making out with her boyfriend (of about 6 days), putting her bunny vibrator in her purse, being seen with a hickey while under scrutiny, being observed in an interrogation room doing gymnastic splits for a policeman, giving her family big smiles in the court room, wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt which read, "love is all you need" at her trial, and most egregious of all, making up a story of witnessing the murder and incriminating a totally innocent man of the murder.

Amanda spends a great part of her story making up excuses for all her childish behaviors. I don't think she has a clue about how her behaviors hurt her case and almost took away her freedom for the duration of her life. She takes no responsibility for her incredibly glib and naive actions. Additionally, I don't believe a word of her concern for the deceased roommate's family. Toward the end of her story, she voices all the right words but to me, they are not at all believable. I don't think Amanda is capable of empathy.

That said, I also think the Italian police's investigation of this crime was deplorable and I cannot believe what went on at the trial. Please let me never be arrested in Italy! However, if you think this could never happen in the good old US, please rent the dvd of The Central Park Five and then know that it could happen here, too. Our own criminal justice system can be very corrupt, too.