The Choir Director

By: Carl Weber

Narrated by: Marc Damon Johnson, Adam Alexander, Patricia R. Floyd, Jennifer Kidwell, Lisa Smith

Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

Carl Weber is a New York Times best-selling author who’s made a name for himself with wildly entertaining works marked by his trademark wit and storytelling panache. In The Choir Director, Bishop T.K. Wilson is banking on dynamic new choir director Anthony Mackie to reverse the failing congregation’s fortunes. But while Anthony’s got more than enough chops to raise a heavenly chorus, he’s also got a weakness for the ladies that could make the Devil himself stand up and take notice.

©2011 Carl Weber (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

Great book

The title doesn’t fit the book. Maybe James final days or officers of the church would have been better names. Overall a good listen

As the Negro Turns

Picture this. A soap opera with an all black cast in an all black world. Are you feeling me?

If you have read Carl Weber before then you know what this is all about. Pretty much the same things happen in each book. Usually it goes like this: Girls want man, girls sleep with man, girls get man, girl loses man, girl does stupid sh@@ to get man back, girl loses man to good girl.

This is my fifth Weber book, and I believe they all revolve around this church. These Christians do a lot of sleeping around. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is off the chain, lots of times it is just plain silly. One of the subplots I recognized from a 80's porn movie and the movie 300. Yes, back in the 70's and 80's porn had plots. This is not bad enough to be porn, but it comes very close.

To enjoy this throw your common sense out the window and dumb yourself down. I gave this three stars, probably cause this is my fifth Weber. The earlier books, I would have given four stars. That does not mean those books were better, just that I am no longer entertained as much by the same old Weber.

Carl, try writing Science Fiction. Send those beautiful black women into space and colonize some new planets. Try a Zombie book (It's the new craze). Just leave Queens and do something else. How about black pioneers in the wild west.

Anyways if you are lily white like me, you should at least read one Weber book, I really think you will like it. Oh, No you didn't, Oh yes I did.

Great Story

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I found this author's writing style to be kind of boring. I wish it was more robust and descriptive. Maybe that is just my preference.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Choir Director?

The end was an excellent ending. I don't want to give it away.

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

No.

Was The Choir Director worth the listening time?

Yes

Any additional comments?

This was the craziest book. At first I thought I was going to hate this book but it really drew me in. The author's writing style is so laid back that at first I was done with the book but his development of the story was great. I feel so many different ways about this book. I know this review is nuts but if you have patience it is a good read.

A GOOD STORY not realistic BUT A GREAT READ

What made the experience of listening to The Choir Director the most enjoyable?

The narrators

What did you like best about this story?

narrator

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

yes I have and this one is just as good

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

laugh

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed this book. It had a good story that allowed you to try to figure out who did it and why. I dont look at these books as being "spiritual" so if thats what your looking for go to that section. This is fiction and its good fiction. I enjoyed it...

the storyline was great and intriguingly surprisin

loved it look forward to book 2 on the choir director. this book is worth sharing

Great read

Loved it! The first book I ever read by Weber! He now has another follower

Church Politics is no joke!

Would you consider the audio edition of The Choir Director to be better than the print version?

I cannot rate that because I never read the print version. The audio version was outstanding in many ways. First there were the characters, the insight to what really happens in the church pollitic and how those the congregation look up to to feed us God's Word are usually so mired in their own personal agendas that the content and context of God's word gets lost behind their misbehavior.

What other book might you compare The Choir Director to and why?

A book in print by Kimberla Lawson Roby where the Pastor engaged in some unsavory behavior. This one addressed the elephant in the room of Choir Directors almost always being gay. This one thank God was not portrayed as being gay however he did have his issues of infidelity and secrets.

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

The real flavor of how the ones who are in seats of power in the corporate church structure really conduct business. It gives a more expanded look at the mindset behind the actions of those involved from the Pastor on down to the janitor.

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

Yes and it is a book that I listened to in one sitting.

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed this book. I would have loved for a more compassionate ending to the blackmailing friend of the Pastor by the Pastor's wife but such is life when even Christians do not really know who and whose we are.

Fluffy and sometimes fun

A light and fluffy story, with some humor and a little suspense. Sex is an undercurrent driving a lot of the story, and I found a lot of the dialog around sex repetitive and unrealistic. At least I hope not too many people talk about it like these characters do. I thought the ensemble approach worked pretty well and the actors did well.

Wonderful Change UP

This book was a wonderful change from the ordinary. Loved the first person presentation from the characters. Think it was just perfect for audio listening. A few problems with the plot but well worth listening again.

Another good story by Weber

It’s a story with just enough twist and turns to be believable. I enjoyed the characters and the outcome.