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Narrado por:
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Clarinda Ross
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De:
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Susan Woodring
When Percy Harding, Goliath’s most important citizen, is discovered dead by the railroad tracks outside of town one perfect autumn afternoon, no one can quite believe it’s really happened. Percy, the president of the town’s worldrenowned furniture company, had seemed invincible. Only Rosamond Rogers, Percy’s secretary, may have had a glimpse of how and why this great man has fallen, and that glimpse tugs at her, urges her to find out more.
Percy isn’t the first person to leave Rosamond - everybody seems to, from her husband, Hatley, who walked out on her years ago, to her complicated daughter Agnes, whose girlhood bedroom was papered with maps of the places she wanted to escape to. The town itself is Rosamond’s anchor, but it is beginning to quiver with the possibility of change. The high school girls are writing suicide poetry, the town’s young, lumbering sidewalk preacher is courting Rosamond’s daughter, a troubled teenage boy plans to burn Main Street to the ground, and the furniture factory itself - the very soul of Goliath - threatens to close.
In the wake of the town’s undoing, Rosamond seeks to reunite the griefshaken community. Goliath - a story of loss and love, of forgiveness and letting go - is a lyrical swoon of a novel by an exceptionally talented newcomer.
©2012 Susan Woodring (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Don't waste your time and/or money
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Agonizing
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Sleepy Story of a Sleepy Town
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I couldn't go through with it.
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What a disappointment.
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Would you ever listen to anything by Susan Woodring again?
not likelyHow could the performance have been better?
Move it along a little fasterYou didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I didn't find anyAny additional comments?
Too much detail. I love unabridged books but this was agonizingly slow and painful.Worst story ever.
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What would have made Goliath better?
A plot! There seems to be none....just the thought clouds of various people around town who knew the deceased who apparently was the central character tho he was dead from the first minute. None of these different people whose thoughts we are hearing seem to connect with each other very much and their various thought processes are not particularly engaging or thought-provoking. I quit about half way through the book because I just couldn't care about any of the characters. None of them had developed a personality or a story by that point. Reminds me of a very bad William Faulkner imitation.What could Susan Woodring have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Create a STORY involving all those random people.Would you be willing to try another one of Clarinda Ross’s performances?
NO.....she made the book even worse to listen to. Her narration was stiff and unemotional making the meanderings of the characters thoughts even more pointless. She read like someone just picked out of a crowd who was self-conscious and read with a lot of hesitations and pauses in inappropriate spots in a sentence. Very boring.What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Boredom and frustrationAny additional comments?
There are an awful lot of mediocre authors getting published and this is one of them.What's the point?
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I don't think I can get past chapter three. The reader is so slow and the writing is so over-done that I'm having a hard time concentrating on the story... if there is a story to concentrate on that is. The descriptions are too wordy and the author uses too many metaphors. I'm not sure I need a table described to me in metaphor. It reminds me of a high school student aiming for a better grade by using bigger words. I thinking about counting the times the author uses the word "plume" and turning it into a drinking game.How could the performance have been better?
Different reader reading a different book.Failing at Chapter 3
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Too Bad I Have to Give the Story 1 Star
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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Someone who likes listening to sloowwwwwww reading by a kindergarten teacher.Has Goliath turned you off from other books in this genre?
No - I couldn't stand listening to the reader long enough even to guess what the story was like. What I heard was well written, though. I didn't want to review the story itself because I didn't feel I had heard enough, but was compelled to submit a rating in order to write a review. Sorry about that.How did the narrator detract from the book?
Horribly horribly slow and unnatural pacing and inflection.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The writing seemed to be good. I plan to read it (in written form).Any additional comments?
Why on Earth do narrators think they have to read so slowly?!?! Good heavens. It's torture!You get what you pay for - $5 sale
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