Totally Absorbing

Short stories in which I became immersed. Beautifully crafted and characters stayed with me after finishing book.

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Story Teller Extraordinaire

Puzzling, funny, evocative, dark, light - Boyd never - ever - disappoints. Beautifully read by Peter Noble, a true treat to hear.

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Another Boyd , new to me.

I loved this book particularly its various different parts. Characters are intriguing. A very good performance.

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Boring claptrap!

I am halfway through this title and I am losing the will to live. The narrator Peter Noble must have been having a bad day. He sounds like the stories, bored. Don’t waste your money or a credit on this rubbish.

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Terrible. Genuinely terrible. I deleted it.

I really can’t believe this is written by the same person that wrote Any Human Heart and Brazzaville Beach. It’s insipid, poorly written nonsense that reads like it was written by some horny wannabe writer. The characters are shallow, the writing clumsy, and writer way too distracted by sex. I honestly tried to give the book the benefit of doubt (as I say, supposedly written by the same person as Brazzaville Beach, which I love)—I listened to a few stories, was bored and annoyed, but gave it more time. After a couple more stories, I was even more bored and annoyed. I jumped past a couple chapters to see if it was the same later in the book—it was, so I gave up and removed it from my phone. Waste of money, waste of time. I normally wouldn’t be so harsh in a review, but I feel entirely ripped off that I bought something sold on the back of two great novels only to find it’s not even remotely in the same vein and it reads like it was written by someone else entirely. I don’t know what happened. It makes me wonder if this was actually written by Boyd (could it have been ghost written or something?) If it *was* written by Boyd, I apologise for the vehemence of this review and wish him all the luck in returning to form.

I very much wish I could get a refund, but with Audible’s new refund policy, I can’t because I bought it in a sale, not with my credits. It would be nice if they’d return to letting people refund things they don’t like. I’d be less inclined to be so brutally honest if didn’t feel the need to warn others. I feel like I was tricked into buying something on false pretences which I then couldn’t even return; I hope it doesn’t happen to anyone else.

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Pure drivel

so boring, non sensical and no real story, Boyd trading on previous reputation to serve up some vomit and get paid, well never again for me.

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