Andy Spooner

A Stunning Performance

Revisado: 01-15-16

Would you consider the audio edition of Cutting for Stone to be better than the print version?

The story is just great... funny, moving, thought-provoking. The characters are marvelous. The historical context is fascinating, and the medical descriptions are bot accurate and dramatic. But it's the reader that elevates this to "masterpiece" status. He infuses each character with his or her own personality. It was difficult to stop listening.

Which scene was your favorite?

Any scene involving Ghosh. Loved that guy!

If you could take any character from Cutting for Stone out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Probably Ghosh. But the characters in this book are so lovable... it would be hard to pick.

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Appears to be missing the last 5 chapters

Revisado: 10-04-15

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

The moral of the story seems to be that heavy drug use should not hold you back from running a productive life. Maybe that message is appealing to some people... It's simply could not suspend my disbelief.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger at the lack of closure after such a long read.

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Not very interesting

Revisado: 07-01-15

What did you like best about The Girl on the Train? What did you like least?

Sort of has a mystery to it.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Made the protagonist a little more likable. Made the lot a lot less predictable.

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Excellent overview of the current EHR world

Revisado: 06-08-15

What did you love best about The Digital Doctor?

Great review of recent history. Anyone who works in healthcare today would find this account interesting.

What did you like best about this story?

Detailed anecdotes to support points. Curent content.

Would you be willing to try another one of Benjamin Wachter’s performances?

I was grateful that this title made it into audio form at all. It helped me to keep this in mind when listening.

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Medical history, biology, and some myth debunking

Revisado: 05-21-14

What did you love best about The Emperor of All Maladies?

I like history, particularly medical history, so this was a great book for me. There is a lot of detail here, but it is written in a very accessible style.

What about Stephen Hoye’s performance did you like?

Hoye is a spectacular reader. I discovered him in some Carl Hiassen books where his pleasant voice, crisp delivery, and excellent character rendition made those books come alive. The only issue with this book is that he needed better advice on pronouncing medical terms. There are a LOT of medical terms in this book, so maybe I should not be so critical, but if you have any clinical background at all you will find yourself rewinding to figure out what was meant with a novel pronunciation of a common medical term.

Any additional comments?

Mukherjee is an excellent writer; I will be looking for more books from him. He gets a star off because he falls victim to a number of common, incorrect word usages. For example, he likes the word "enormity" and appears to want to use it to mean magnitude. This is confusing to me, since enormity usually means something that is really evil. So referring to the "enormity" of a cancer remission does not make much sense.

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Outstanding as Usual from Muller

Revisado: 09-05-13

If you could sum up The Prince of Tides in three words, what would they be?

Musical Southern Story

What other book might you compare The Prince of Tides to and why?

It's like a lot of other southern literature that emphasizes the frailty and strength of the family

Any additional comments?

The world lost a great artist when Frank Muller died. I could listen to his reading all day.

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Impossible to stop listening to

Revisado: 02-25-12

Riveting story, excellent narrator. If you are interested in other compelling stories about the Pacific Theatre of World War II, try With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, by Eugene Sledge. The latter was the main source material for the TV series The Pacific, a companion piece to Band of Brothers.

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Compelling--if cursory--story, but the narration..

Revisado: 02-03-12

The narrator was fine, but there were regular pronunciation problems. When Jobs is diagnosed with an islet (pronounced EYE-let) cell tumor, he says IZZ-let. Huh? When he mentions Mac OS X, he says "mac oh ess eks," rather than the "oh ess ten" that Jobs himself used (and that any Mac will use if you ask it to speak that phrase). Then there's "robutt." The narrator speaks of "robutts" instead of robots. Distracting. Regardless, the narration is crisp and generally easy to listen to. Fortunately, the story is very engaging, especially if you grew up during the PC revolution. About the worst I could say about the story is that I was left wanting for more detail.

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Pretty good tale, following the Grisham format

Revisado: 01-02-12

In retrospect I would have rather re-listened to The Client or The Firm. But if you like the standard Grisham approach (young lawyer against all odds, with lots of "Inside Baseball" lawyering info) then this will work for you. Narrator was good.

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Enjoyable bio

Revisado: 01-02-12

Add this to the list of enjoyable, quasi-autobiographical works by comedians like Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Samantha Bee, and Ellen DeGeneres. Not as laugh-out-loud humorous (like Bee's or Fey's) but more genuinely autobiographical like Martin's. Any fan of the Office or modern humor in general would get a kick out of it.

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