Accordion Crimes (Abridged) Audiobook

" Really quirky, but I like that! This is the story of a bunch of different people who own one accordion. It took me several months to read this- some smoother than others, but for the most part, I really enjoyed it. "

" she's brilliant but this one was too dense for my addled mind. "

" contemp fiction:America 20th century-----------separate stories through one accordion "

" There is just something about Annie Proulx's writing that I love. This isn't exactly a page turner and I even had to set it down for a while so I could bring something a little lighter on vacation. But the descriptions of classic Proulx hard-scrabble characters and places is terrific. Worth it when you have time to chew on words a bit. "

" It's rare that I give up on a book, especially when someone has personally recommended it to me, but I cannot stand this book. There is no rhythm or flow. Just when you think the writer has hit her stride and things are finally going to move along, she slams the door of boredom in your face. This book just isnt working for me. "

" Almost a collection of short stories, these tales are weaved around the travels of an accordion that makes its way in and out of ethnic cultures in the United States. Proulx's vast knowledge of location and identity, as well as her facility with dialects and dialogues, makes this book a veritable historical survey of the United States intertwined with the important role music plays in identity and memory. "

" I could never get into this book. I never finished it. "

" I'm possitive it took many hours of research for Ms Proulx to put this book together, and I admire her for her efforts, but I truthfully had a difficult time keeping an interest in completing it, but I did. I did find the different experiences of the immigrants and their hard lives close to what my own grandparents lived through. "

" I tired of the main character (the accordian), it lacked personality. "

" I didn't like this book as much as the others I'd read by Proulx. It sort of jumped around in time, wasn't written chronologically, and for me that is difficult. It was interesting, but not really good IMO. "

" Makes you think about generations of people...their lives...what objects may connect us to the past and the future "

" I loved The Shipping News, but although I liked the idea behind Accordion Crimes, I didn't care about any of the characters. I might be a different kind of reader now, but I'm not inclined to pick up this grim tale again. "

" i keep losing interest in this one, but i am so fascinated by the setting and characters... "

" This story follows a little green button accordion through several generations of people's hands; people who suffer horrible injury or a terrible death. But the accordion survives....sort of. "

" Follows the story of a green accordion from the accordion maker who brings it to America. Reads like a collection of short stories, but they are all so dense and detailed they begin to feel repetitive. A nice story of Am. heritage and old world music, though. "

" I listened to this on audiocassettes and it blew me away. Rich characterization, beautiful description, and surprising twists and turns. An all-time favorite, this book introduced me to Proulx' other works. "

" Still struggling through this...grim... "

" Clever, but too American for many English readers I suspect. "

" Passed this one along as well after two attempts and 150 pages. Loved some of Proulx's other works (Shipping News and The Old Ace In The Hole) but couldn't get in to this one. "

" Very well-described and educational about American immigrant history, some humourous scenarios. However I struggled to finish it and got fed up with perpetual misery. Depressing. "

" I love E. Annie Proulx--this was another great read. . .collection of short stories all centered around the life of one small green accordian. . . couldn't wait to get back to it each day! "

" couldn't get through it. too many swaps in main characters. "

" A rondolet that squeeze-boxes the life out of you. "

" too gory..couldn't stand the crudness of this story...not Annie's best book. "

" This was a gift from Sharon Lewis. A good mystery in which an accordian is sold, lost, given, to various people in the U.S. from various immigrant cultures over several generation. "

" Well, I powered through it and survived. Wonderful prose but impossibly depressing. "

" too gory..couldn't stand the crudness of this story...not Annie's best book. "

" a gritty little book...a very gritty little book But in the big scheme of things, Proulx points out the cultural importance of the accordian to nearly every group of emmigrants to the United States. I liked it, a lot. "

" Liked the Shipping News better.She does a good job at creating some unforgetable characters but the book took on a drone after a while it just didn't leave you satisfied. "

" Wow...as usual, a wonderful book by Annie Proulx about a bunch of miserable people and an accordion which is passed down through cultures and generations. Dark and funny at the same time. A great read! But don't expect anything good to happen. "

" Not as good as the Shipping News. "

" This book really does ramble off on a lot of tangents...sometimes the accordion isn't even mentioned for what seems like days. But there are some memorableCharacters involved. "

" toch niet de allerbeste van annie "

" Really quirky, but I like that! This is the story of a bunch of different people who own one accordion. It took me several months to read this- some smoother than others, but for the most part, I really enjoyed it. "

" I actually didn't finish this book. It was one of the most brutal books I have ever read. May start a list of all the ways she killed off her characters. I couldn't attach to any one person and couldn't care much about the accordion either. "