Best narrator I've ever heard!

The narrator was hands down the best I've heard on audible. he spoke with passion that really made you feel the story. the novel itself can be a little hard to follow, switching between various timelines, but the imagery and realism both in the novel and performed by the narrator makes this a must listen!

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I feel battered and bruised

I finished this book, because, dang it, I finish what I start. But it was a slog. I felt like I was pushing through an endless sorghum field being randomly battered by criminals hiding in the thick. The writing is vivid and powerful, but the story, and the pain, and the violence, and the utter lack of Hope, leave me feeling tired, with no desire to revisit the story or the pages. I appreciate the look into pre war, post war, pre revolution, post revolution China, but I couldn't lose myself in the pages. it's been since I read Love in the Time of Cholera that I just felt relief at getting to the end of a book, rather than pleasure and accomplishment. I do appreciate the rich symbolism. the red sorghum is at once the source of the family's income, a setting for their pain, and a symbol for their loss. But my overwhelming feeling is relief at being done, and I'm not going back

Beautiful book, less so the narration

Eloquently written with amazing imagery, but not as insightful as one may like, and alas the narrator left many characters sounding whiney and dimmed their expression and potential development.

very violent book

Very violent plotline. i strugled a little bit with it cause it is a bit long.

Not One Hundred Years of Solitude

A poor copy. Entertaining, to be sure, but it is an initiation, and imitation is its flaw.