I've had to stop listening to audio books with similar description. I've been known to get up and leave the room when character seem in imminent danger of being killed.
Any additional comments? I am sensitive to violence, either spoken, written, or portrayed. There are moments where the visceral truth of the character's reality is clearly described. I heard again and again 'Violent,' yet in truth this book held no more violence than common television series today.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? My reaction was not to the book itself but the misleading reviews which made me so reluctant to buy this book. What I found most enjoyable was how he managed to find dialectic accents and hold them accurately without issue. Who was your favorite character and why? Harry August (main character) What about Peter Kenny’s performance did you like? His voice brought all the characters to life. Where does The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Excellent. There were a lot of cool new ideas in here about the nature of time, memory, destiny, self-determination, and the things that make humans themselves. I also enjoyed the general sci-fi, time travel premise because I can't really say that I've seen this particular concept before. I enjoyed that the author was brave enough to make the characters the people they would logically have been, given the situation they were placed in. Like, if the characters in The Girl on the Train or Skippy Dies effed you up, this isn't the book for you. I mean, prrrroooobably don't read this book if you're in a very fragile emotional/mental health state.
If death means nothing to you why would you care if you committed suicide by rat poison? If you live the same life over and over for hundreds of years, how could the "linears" (normal people) become anything other than paper dolls for you to play with? Once I situated the characters in their culture rather than my culture I was definitely able to understand their motivations and empathize with them. While I'm glad I was pre-warned that there was a lot of gruesome violence in the book (there is) and that the characters are generally callous and frequently cruel people (they are), these aspects made sense for the premise of the book. It should have been a little higher up on my wishlist. I put this book low on my wishlist because it sounded interesting but the words "tough to read" and "sociopath" and "couldn't like the characters" kept popping up in the reviews. As you are, I'm a person who reads the reviews to see if I should invest in a book.
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