Revolutionary Road
Author: Richard Yates
Read by: Mark Bramhall
9 discs ( approx 11 hours)
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certaintly is about to crumble.
Personal Notes: One word-Disappointed! Although I enjoy the drama in a good Lifetime movie-this movie was just depressing and dragged out. I kept listening waiting for it to get better-expecting it to after the reviews of the back of the book and knowing that it had been made into a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio (who is usually in pretty good movies i think) characters are not very likeable however and essentially what the book is is two people who got married when they shouldn't have and live out an unhappy marriage.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Dear American Airlines
Dear American Airlines
By: Jonathan Miles
Read by Mark Bramhall
6 discs (approx 7 hours)
Bennie Ford is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of passengers at O'Hare airport, hewatches the clock tick and realizes he will miss the ceremony. Frusterated, irate, and helpless, he starts a letter. But what beginas as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund soon becomes the cri de coeur of a life misspent, of talent wasted. His letter is a marvel of lacerating wit, heart-on-sleeve emotion, and wide-ranging erudition, penned with the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he has a chance to do something right in his life.
Personal notes: When picking out this book I thought it would be more of a book based on agony and hilarious plots and annoyances that happen when a flight is delayed and all the craziness attached with it in how it would affect your travel plans-this book is probably 30% where he is annoyed at the airlines and about 70% reflecting on his past and regrets he has as a results of decisions he has made in his life. The story is him sitting at the airport writing this refund letter to the airlines and gets into his personal life as well in the letter-it is sad, witty, and hilarious. Mark Bramhall the narrator of this book is excellent as well.
By: Jonathan Miles
Read by Mark Bramhall
6 discs (approx 7 hours)
Bennie Ford is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of passengers at O'Hare airport, hewatches the clock tick and realizes he will miss the ceremony. Frusterated, irate, and helpless, he starts a letter. But what beginas as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund soon becomes the cri de coeur of a life misspent, of talent wasted. His letter is a marvel of lacerating wit, heart-on-sleeve emotion, and wide-ranging erudition, penned with the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he has a chance to do something right in his life.
Personal notes: When picking out this book I thought it would be more of a book based on agony and hilarious plots and annoyances that happen when a flight is delayed and all the craziness attached with it in how it would affect your travel plans-this book is probably 30% where he is annoyed at the airlines and about 70% reflecting on his past and regrets he has as a results of decisions he has made in his life. The story is him sitting at the airport writing this refund letter to the airlines and gets into his personal life as well in the letter-it is sad, witty, and hilarious. Mark Bramhall the narrator of this book is excellent as well.
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