Review: Adultery by Paulo Coelho
A Rapid Review
Adultery by Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Random House Audio | August 2014
Format: Audio Download | 8 hours | Rating: 3 stars
Audio Listening Level: Easy – Intermediate
A woman in her 30s begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody’s eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet what she feels is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high school boyfriend…
I could not relate to Linda, the main character – not because she was unhappy, we all experience unhappy times, but because her solution was so extreme. A degrading affair? Yes, I thought it was a bit raw and unfulfilling. This was not a romance; this man was using her. And then she would have these long, soul-searching conversations with her husband. Really? Too often I felt like I was listening to man’s view of a women having a mid-life crisis.
I kept listening partly because the audio was good and I was hoping it would get better, but in the end I was left underwhelmed.
Audio production:
Susan Denaker narrates the story using quiet, even tones and steady pacing. The story is written in the first person and she did a nice job capturing the flat, depressed sounding Linda.
Audio Sample:
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Source: Review copy provided by the publisher.
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Leslie, thanks for sharing your honest thoughts about this audiobook. It sounds kind of depressing.
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Yeah, that kind of sums it up.
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Sorry to see this was a stinker.
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Hummm. I was going to give this try. Now, I might pass.
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I haven’t read this one, but I did enjoy Manuscript Found in Accra quite a bit.
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Thanks for the reviewing. This is one that I had considered but I am glad I did not listen to it as what you say here is what concerned me. 🙂
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The writing and the audio were good. The character wasn’t believable. Not that a woman wouldn’t initiate an affair, but the way she went about it – ugh. I don’t want to give any spoilers, but you’ll know in the first hour of listening if this one is right for you! I suggest a library copy. 🙂
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