This audio book is a bit like watching a movie. It's a thriller involving murder, robbery, and plots within plots. The characters are nicely diverse. It's a fun ride and a nice audio work.
This is the first collaboration of The Watchlist by various authors. The concept and character of Harold Middleton, the main protagonist of this book, was created by Jeffery Deaver. Other authors involved: Peter Spiegelman, Ralph Pezzullo, Lisa Scottoline, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, ...
I’m not sure if Molina is the best Henry II I’ve seen or heard, but this performance of the play is darn good. The repartee is well done and even with just the audio you can hear the passion and disgust that Henry Eleanor feel for each other.
I picked up this audio play because it has Alfred Molina. It is very entertaining, heartbreaking, and sometimes funny play about the question of morality. You do not have to be a scientist or a mathematician to enjoy the play. The performances are well done.
Review taken from my blog, The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia (http://hauntedorchid.blogspot.com/2012/01/audiobook-review-iliad.html)Story:I've actually read The Iliad once before-made it my summer camping at the beach read one year. Admittedly, I thought it was good but not "Oh my gosh, this book is ...
Oh, Long John Silver is the quintessential pirate isn't he?! I *loved* the way that Robert Louis Stevenson drew this character, and he has to be one of the greatest characters in literature, period. Alternately deceitful, honest, terrifying, charming, loyal, disloyal, selfish, selfless, good, and ...
Weird. But good. But weird. I started with the audio version, realized just how much it was being abridged (I hate abridged books, audio or otherwise!!!) and switched to the text version. I liked the characters, even some of the villains, but the number of times that the protagonists were captured, ...