The View from Castle Rock Audiobook

" I tell everyone I know who reads about Alice Munro and William Trevor. For all the good it does... "

" I like the present parts of the book - am somewhat disinterested in the long ago Scottish ancestry. "

" This is Alice Munro's latest collection of stories/book. The stories are fictional but also partly autobiographical. She says that the stories are inspired by events in her own family down through the generations. I found the book a bit tough going at the beginning but by the middle, the stories are written as Alice's first person stories, set during her lifetime. You can't help but wonder what is fiction and what is real? "

" She should stick with her novelistic short stories, which are superb. This story drags badly. "

" Overall, its very good. Some stories drag out a bit. However, stories such as "Hired Girl", "Under the Apple Tree", and "Fathers" are quite something. Still recommended reading for those who love good short stories, and those who appreciate the enormous talent that is La Munro. "

" I'm an avid fan of Munroe - a great glimpse into Candian life over the past century "

" I started this many times, and wasn't in the right zone until now. A more personal and less classical short story collection, View From Castle Rock is nonetheless engrossing and bracing, like everything Munro has ever written. Loved it. "

" This book definitely deserves 3.5 stars rather than plain old 3. These stories provided an interesting window into the life of Alice Munro, and anyone who enjoys her writing should pick up a copy! "

" Extremely creative memoir. My favorite chapters were the early ones where the author brought to life the experiences of her own ancestors as they emigrated from Scotland and started fresh in North America. "

" man, alice munro is my new favorite lady. "

" Interesting, semi-fictional account of Munro's ancestors and of Munro herself (or her narrator-persona). Many of the stories (chapters?) are as good as anything I've read by her. "

" Nice writing with some beautiful scenes, but the stories were too fragmented and piecemeal for my tastes. Reading it felt like leafing through a family scrapbook. I enjoyed the account of the immigrant ship crossing the Atlantic and the fox farming, though. "

" Another gem from Alice Munro! Her stories are nuanced, tender, and manage to capture relationships and the aching complexities of love and family in ways that stay in my mind and heart long after I have finished reading.. She is one of my all-time favorites. "

" Just not my cup of tea as an audio book despite the gorgeous Scottish accents that peppered the first story. "

" It's interesting to read this along with her early work, Lives of Girls and Women. The basic semi-autobiographical story is similar, but given fictional and nonfictional treatments. Alice Munro had such fantastic insight into the human condition, even in her early work. Extraordinary. "

" Just couldn't get into it... "

" I thoroughly enjoyed these stories of Alice Munro's family history and the Canadian early emigrant experiences. Her language captures the sparse landscape of southern Ontario. "

" I just lost the review of this when I changed editions, a review which I had spent considerable time creating. May try later today to recreate. D..... "

" This book started off really boring, and then it got soooo much better. In the beginning it's all of this arcane stuff about her family in Scotland which didn't interest me that much, but the stories about the lives in Canada are great. "

" I read this book twice--most recently as our book club selection. I really appreciated and noticed the nuances of language on second reading tho this characteristic of hers is what appeals to me. A slightly better one by her is Runaway which I read several years ago. "