Luminous Airplanes (CD-Audio)

from nyiper

I started off just fine with this audio but somehow, by about disk 5 I just lost interest in what was happening and although I listened through to the end I wasn't pulled into the story or the characters so that I really wanted to know or even cared about what happened next--I just wanted to get ...

from wdwilson3

This story of a thirtyish man trying to understand his father (whom he never knew) and himself, was a disappointment. Its prose is excellent, with many phrases that seem like gems. It characters are well drawn and believable. Yet it left me feeling rather empty and unfulfilled. The protagonist is...

from Grist

This book starts off engagingly enough but becomes hard to follow and, eventually, kind of dull. The narrator does a good job, neither hindering the text nor trying to make it better than it is. Ultimately, though, the characters are not very interesting and the storytelling is choppy.

from melydia

(unabridged audiobook read by Charles Carroll; 8.25 hrs on 7 discs): A 30-year-old man returns from what sounds a little like the Burning Man festival to learn that his grandfather has died and he missed the funeral. It's the end of the 20th century and the internet bubble has burst. Facing dwind...

from walterqchocobo

I'm sure there was a plot somewhere in this book but it was hard to find. The basic premise: At the end of the 20th century, a 30 year old computer programmer living in San Francisco finds out that his grandfather passed away. He travels back to Thebes, NY (in Norman Mailer's car apparently) to c...