The Good Rain

Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.

©1990 Timothy Egan (P)2016 Brilliance Audio

Good rain

I loved his use of adjectives to bring the reader on his journey. Reminds of Charles Dickens. This author brings you into his journey. The narrator was the perfect choice. This is a keeper and I will read it again. I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to know more about the history of the Northwest territory.

Well told, with good description of beautiful scenery, and some clever metaphors.

Author knows his subject through exhaustive research, both historic and personal experience and interviews. You are there.

Narrator

Great stories, full of history. Overall, the book is terribly depressing, but that isn’t what nearly caused my abandonment. It was the narrator’s frequent mispronunciation of PNW place names! It was distracting to the point that I found myself loudly correcting his errors in the second half of the book. Most were place names, Alki, Puyallup, etc., but GEOduck, repeatedly, took the cake. A little homework could have made this a much more satisfying listen.

Wonderful

A very informative and interesting look at the history of various aspects of the Pacific NW. A lot having to do with nature and the Native American culture of the area.

Great Narriatiom

Excellent listen, great stories of a time past, Historically correct, saddened by the use and abuse of a once Natural Ecosystem , that was cherished and cultivated by the Original keepers of the land.

Excellent book

I am from the NW and was extremely interested in this book. I have two corrections for the narrator. Couer’d Alene is pronounced with a long A not an e. The other is that geoduck is pronounced gooey duck. These are minor, I realize but substantial if raised here!

Pacific northwest deep dive

If you really wanna understand the Pacific Northwest it’s natural history its people, the land etc this is a good read as It’s been a “classic” for over three decades.

Egan is a wonderful storyteller!

This engaging retelling of Pacific Northwest history, via Egan’s travels through Oregon, Washington and a smidgeon of British Columbia, is both entertaining and educational.

Annoying narration for a very interesting book

I'm enjoying the book as it deals with the area where I live and I'm learning a lot. But I have to pause to complain about the reader. I'm not enjoying his voice, but worse is his mispronunciation of words and names of places. In particular, Puyallup and geoduck are mispronounced. He should have done some research.

Learn the Regional Pronunciations!

It is distracting, especially for a book about a specific region, to have the reader mispronounce common regional areas.