The Gate House
Author: Nelson DeMille
Narrator: Christian Rummel
Unabridged: 22 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 10/28/2008
Category: Fiction - Suspense
Author: Nelson DeMille
Narrator: Christian Rummel
Unabridged: 22 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 10/28/2008
Category: Fiction - Suspense
I stuck it out to the bitter end, and truthfully the last 3 CDs were vastly more entertaining that the previous 16. I seriously considered sending back the entire long-winded, slow-moving, yawningly pedantic recap of The Gold Coast around about CD 7 or 8, but I didnt have another book to listen to, so I kept listening. Yeah, it was funny in places. But the actual meat of the story could have been told in a quarter of this lengthy discourse on the Long Island moneyed uppercrust. DeMille is a 20th-century Jane Austen, and this book is a classic book of manners, a quaint and sometimes vastly pedantic portrait of a particular societys culture and habits. If only DeMille had known when to stop prosing and get on with the plot.