The Drifters: A Novel

The robotic narrator somehow managed to suck all the life and romance out of this Michener masterpiece. If there is any literary justice in this world, somebody at Audible will junk this recording and record it all again with a new narrator.

Any other narrator would have done a better job. This guy is terrible. At times I'm not sure whether the narrator is a human or a computer. And he reads too slow. I tried speeding up the playback, but that just made his robotic intonations sound worse.

Disappointment that after waiting so long for Michener to be available, the performance could be so bad.

Please, please, please junk this recording and produce a new recording with a new narrator.

The story line and characters.

Uninteresting

I have no problem whatsoever with Larry's performance. He is NOT the problem

All of them

If this had been my first Michener book, it would have been my last.

Interesting but not Michener's best.

Narrator slow, toneless, like a robot. Didn't make it interesting.

Great story. As per most Michener books a great historical novel of tragic era of losses to war, drugs and sadness.
The reader is very poor. Got better as the story matured. I almost gave up on the beginning due to choppy word pronunciation almost as bad as computer reading. Liked the book. Never want to hear that reader again.

I love this book and story and have read it myself a couple of times. But it hurts me to hear this stiff, stilted and altogether uninteresting rendition of it by this narrator. Please hire someone else to deliver this wonder story.

This was a look at an eclectic group of travelers experiencing Europe and Africa in the early 70's. Half of the group were privileged trust fund young adults, with back stories that reflected the angst of the generation, including two who were running away from the Vietnam war draft. These characters were determined to not live like their parents as they rebelled by embracing the free love and drug culture. The central narrator was an established older gentleman who connected with each person through past and current roles in their lives. Several spiraled into emotional and physical peril, while others learned what they needed to thrive.

Michener is very good at intrrpreting the baby boomer generation : including the viet nam war, draft dodgers, and race relations,.He included the problems between His insight is amazing while he tells the tale of youthful optimists trying to solve the problems plaguing their generation.

One of the best books I have read but wanted it on audible. The narrator sounds like a bot. It sounds like the unemotional read back of a computer.

James Michener's, The Drifters, takes you on an International journey with six young people in the turbulence of the late Sixties. It was a confused time of unclear moral boundaries, Vietnam, drugs and some great music. I didn't want it to end!