Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova
Narrator: Lisa Genova
Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 01/06/2009
Category: Fiction - Contemporary Women
Author: Lisa Genova
Narrator: Lisa Genova
Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 01/06/2009
Category: Fiction - Contemporary Women
Still Alice sounds like the autobiography of my friend's mother. I couldn't put it down and thought it was terrifying how such a brilliant mind could be devastated by this disease. It's a quick read but left me paranoid about all of the things I forget on a daily basis... for about a week I found myself asking, is this a sign that I have it too? Yikes. I have tremendous sympathy for anyone battling alzheimer's.
I cannot really review the book itself, as I could barely get through the first disk. It sounded as though it would be a good story, and I was looking forward to listening to it. However, the author was also the reader, and her reading was so bad that I simply couldnt stand it. Ms. Genova may be a very good writer, but she does herself no favor by reading her book. Her monotone, expressionless reading ruined the experience for me.
I agree with another reviewer in that listening to this book was so annoying with the author droning on in an expressionless, monotone, soliloquy that I gave up half way through the first CD.