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Skyfaring
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
In Skyfaring, airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder and transcendent joy of motion and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love.
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- jonathan
- 18-09-17
How can such a fascinating subject be so dull....
This book was absolutely not what I was expecting, I thought it would be stories and talk about actually flying as I'm interested in just what happens on a journey from A to B but no. In my opinion it’s more a personal rambling that goes on and on relentlessly. This is the first audio book I’ve had where I’ve actually used the fast forward button…
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- Andy
- 18-03-17
Awful
This is Bad, it is badly read, it is meandering rubbish by someone who sounds as though English is not their first language
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- M
- 26-05-15
Excellent read
very emotive and enlightening , has definitely rekindled my love of flight and planes .
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- Jamie L
- 11-10-20
Terrible narrator
Dreadful narrator - ruined a wonderful book. A real shame. Painful to listen to. Sounded like AI.
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- Ghazi
- 08-09-19
elegant
elegant is how best i can discribe this book, how it flows, how it is writtin, and how it was read...
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- Mr R B
- 21-07-15
Good in parts
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Not really. There are some really good parts and if it was abridged by a good editor then I think it could be a much better book for the casual listener. As it stands though, it is very wordy in parts and in the end just goes on a bit too long. After 12 hours I was ready for it to finish (and soon!).
Would you be willing to try another book from Mark Vanhoenacker? Why or why not?
Possibly, but I only have so many credits which means probably not. Why not? Well, much like some other reviewers I think Mark just tries a bit too hard in places. I've nothing against the guy (and I liked some of it very much), but I didn't need the literary references to appreciate that he is a very educated guy. Read one of Feynman's memoires if you want an example of an overpowering intellect who never strays from plain English.
Have you listened to any of John Moraitis’s other performances? How does this one compare?
I haven't, but I have no complaints about the narration.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
No - and to be fair I think this would be a difficult subject to do justice to in a film.
Any additional comments?
Mark is obviously a smart guy - He mentions his education, followed by the career in management consulting and I think that's maybe the underlying issue here. I can imagine what he would have been like giving a presentation - at the end of it you would have been made fully aware of just how smart he was. Perhaps that seems a little unfair, after all I did like a lot of the book. I do think that as a 5 hour book minus the flowery bits it could be a really good book.
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- Jake Castle
- 20-02-22
For pilots
I read this book but hearing mark resd the words to me made the miles as I was driving just fade away.
such a brilliant book
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- Iain S. Palin
- 31-05-21
Bryson of the Air?
Listening, I was strongly reminded of one of Bill Bryson'sc books. The same mixture of the personal and the informative, gently delivered in a way that keeps your attention and paints a vivid picture. The voice of the (excellent) narrator contributed to this. If Bryson had been an airline pilot and wanted to share his life, his love for the air, the details of his craft, and what I can only call his philosophy of world travel, this would be the book. And all this, I hasten to say, is a compliment.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-01-21
An amazing & interesting book
A very enjoyable book, even for pilots! The technical details are perfectly representing the reality. All I can say is Thank You! Loved it
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- TVCruelty
- 13-10-20
Disappointing
I wanted to like this but unfortunately it’s overlong and quite patchy. There are some nicely poetic passages and some interesting facts but, as someone else has said, it would have benefited from some tighter editing.
The narration is pretty terrible. The narrator simply doesn’t know how to pronounce some words, especially non-US place names, and his attempts at French and Italian are tragically comical.
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