

Ordinary Thunderstorms
A Novel
Author: William Boyd
Narrator: Gideon Emery
Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/23/2010
Categories: Fiction
Author: William Boyd
Narrator: Gideon Emery
Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/23/2010
Categories: Fiction
William Boyd is also the author of A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys War Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunderstorms; and Waiting for Sunrise, among other books. He lives in London.
Stop me if you‘ve heard this one before. An innocent person discovers someone who has just been murdered, and then they stupidly pick up the weapon, end up covered in blood and then they’re accused of the crime. That scene has played out so many times in pop entertainment that I think anyone with mo......more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd started off really well for me but ended up being a little disappointing. It started off as a 4 star effort, as the main character - Adam (alias John) - got himself into a real pickle by no fault of his own. He then made a series of decisions that were kind of......more
Readers who pick up Ordinary Thunderstorms, having not read William Boyd before, expecting a high octane chase thriller through the tough streets of London maybe disappointed. For me, William Boyds intention is to amuse as well as thrill reading like one of Graham Greenes 'entertainments' with a Dic......more
Ordinary Thunderstorms is an extremely flawed novel. It's ostensibly a mystery, but it never completely solves that mystery. The protagonist makes a series of very odd choices that don't strike me as being believable. The ending is kind of a non-ending with a lot of loose threads, yet it's clearly n......more