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The Almost Moon [Audiobook] [Unabridged] (Audio CD)

by Alice Sebold (Author), Joan Allen (Reader)
2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Joan Allen fails to breathe sufficient life into Alice Sebold's second novel to make it worth the listen, but she really doesn't have much to work with. Helen Knightly, a divorced mother of two grown daughters, impulsively murders her 88-year-old mother, Claire. The story then flips back and forth between Helen's response to her present-day act and long flashbacks exploring her love/hate relationships with her emotionally volatile, agoraphobic mother and her suicidal, peculiarly obsessed father. Allen's calm, even voice makes Helen's most irrational actions (smothering her mother, cutting her clothes off, bathing her dead body and dragging it down to the basement) sound nearly as reasonable to listeners as they do to Helen. Allen also marvelously evokes the cracked, demented tones of Helen's aged mother. Unfortunately, the older Claire Knightly appears in only the smallest portion of the book, and Allen barely troubles to distinguish the voices of the other characters. Her unvarying voice, combined with the tediously introspective text, make this audio a real slog.
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Listeners might be more easily absorbed into this brief lyrical novel were they not told in its opening sentences that the storyÕs narrator has just suffocated her rapidly deteriorating mother. From that point on, the story is told as a flashback involving an only child, a mentally ill mother, and a father who finally succeeds at suicide. Flashback requires reflection. Despite Joan AllenÕs more than adequate rendering, audio by nature pushes ahead, not leaving a lot of space between the words. Repetition and slight variation, two of SeboldÕs strong points on the page, become petty annoyances. New-age musical interludes between chapters are out of place with the tone of the novel. In this case, SeboldÕs excellent writing has to be read on the page to be fully appreciated. R.R. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Topic, Nov 2 2008
By MacFly (Regina, Saskatchewan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Almost Moon (Paperback)
The Almost Moon is the second book I've read by Alice Sebold (the other being The Lovely Bones). This book was a bit like watching a train wreck - you couldn't really believe what was happening but you couldn't look away. The main character is not terribly sympathetic - we meet her right after she has killed her elderly mother - but we can all recognize the humanity in her. Sebold is clearly a writer in a different category from most. She tackles the most unusual story lines and holds the reader for the entire novel. While I enjoyed The Lovely Bones more, if enjoy is the right word to use with Sebold's novel topics, I still found this book to be a very good read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Higher expectations, Mar 22 2009
By Genevieve Lavoie "Love2read" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Almost Moon (Paperback)
After reading both Alice Sebold's last books, Lucky (memoir) & The lovely Bones (WOW) I was awaiting her next release impatiently. Unfortunatly it fell short for me. It was good but not great. The story was good but I never had time to fall in love with the main caracter so the whole book kept me hungryly awaiting that moment. I feel the caracters should all have been more deeply explored. And the ending left me a bit frustrated. Where it should have let me thinking. Just a normal read for me.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Always Interesting Subject Matter, Nov 29 2008
By MacFly (Regina, Saskatchewan) - See all my reviews
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The Almost Moon is the second book I've read by Alice Sebold (the other being The Lovely Bones). This book was a bit like watching a train wreck - you couldn't really believe what was happening but you couldn't look away. The main character is not terribly sympathetic - we meet her right after she has killed her elderly mother - but we can all recognize the humanity in her. Sebold is clearly a writer in a different category from most. She tackles the most unusual story lines and holds the reader for the entire novel. While I enjoyed The Lovely Bones more, if enjoy is the right word to use with Sebold's novel topics, I still found this book to be a very good read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars The almost book
Don't waste your time on this one. The plot is just super weird. What a disappointment after reading The Lovely Bones.
Published 18 days ago by SJ

2.0 out of 5 stars A Puzzling Story but Don't Be So Quick To Judge
Other reviewers are slamming this book because, I suspect, they don't understand the protagonist or her actions. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Melinda Vale

4.0 out of 5 stars I disagree!
Lovely Bones was a great story, but the quality of the writing was poor at best, as is often the case with a first novel. Read more
Published 23 months ago by V. F. Ellinor-Shiers

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother
I also was highly dissappointed, I am just trying to finish it to justify the purchase, ugh, I hate wasting money on bad reads!
Published on Jan 20 2008 by jilly

2.0 out of 5 stars meh.
I loved reading The Lovely Bones and Lucky. Both books were amazing. However, I was taken back when I began to read the almost moon. Read more
Published on Jan 8 2008 by Kendra Lawrie

1.0 out of 5 stars "Lucky" indeed
Like most people who were enchanted by Seabolds first novel "the lovely bones" I was very excited to finally sit down and turn to the first page of this, her second work of... Read more
Published on Dec 17 2007 by philip freeman

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book
Hard to read, but well written. Should she have killed her mother? No. Did she love her mother? Yes. Did she hate her mother? Yes. Read more
Published on Dec 12 2007 by Emmaursula

1.0 out of 5 stars Yikes. Sophmore Album Syndrome methinks.
Okay, I just finished reading this the other day. I was really exited about this book coming out due to my love of her book "The Lovely Bones". Read more
Published on Oct 21 2007 by J. S. Willis

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