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The Gift
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Angelina John
- 05-01-18
Thought provoking read
I loved it. It made you stop and re~evaluate life. Work life balance reminder. Invoking
11 people found this helpful
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- Lindy SH
- 22-03-15
Enjoyable recommended read
Really enjoyable story that has a common thread of meaning for us all. So engrossed just kept on reading.
Highly recommend for a light hearted interesting story with a potent life message
16 people found this helpful
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- Jan
- 19-01-19
A Christmas Carol without the charm
So blooming worthy and oh so predictable. I wanted to like it and kept right on to the end but found myself more and more irritated.
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- Hels24
- 04-01-19
A warm Christmas story
A 'nice' sweet Christmas story but really.... Lou was a very unpleasant man who thought the world evolved around him , why should he have been any gift ? His wife , Ruth , was a clever , bright women who would have left him years ago .. have some respect women! If you want to listen to fluff ..go for it .
The story was well read and I enjoyed the readers telling but not for me
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- Book Monitor
- 15-03-22
A too long and unoriginal Christmas story.
There are some good things about this book and some not so good things:
The lead character Lou Suffern is for the most past not a particularly likeable character but is also not that disagreeable. His long suffering wife Ruth is very two dimensional for the most part. Gabe is what he is and the mystery of who he is isn't really that much of a mystery.
For me this feels like an over-extended and too stretched Christmas short story.
It wasn't a bad book but it was fairly obvious where it was going and it sometimes took a wordy route.
The Concept was quite good but not original.
The narration was pretty good.
Overall 3 stars
Narration 4 stars
Story 3 stars.
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- Nicholas or Pam Evans
- 27-12-21
so true
a lesson we need before it's too late . Time really is the gift only you can give yourself
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- Debbie B
- 18-08-21
loved it!
don't have a bad word to say, loved every minute, well written and well read, on to the next one!
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- Taylor's
- 27-05-21
Excellent
very different from what I normally listen to, picked it up on a deal but so glad u read it, excellent story and we'll written and narrated, great experience.
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- Julie fenwick
- 11-01-21
Brilliant book
Great listening which I played several times due to falling asleep but each time I heard something different in it. Well worth your “time” to listen
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-12-20
a great story kept me hooked throughout
A good story well worth the time, which is of course more precious than gold......