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Narrated by:
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Frank Muller
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By:
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Nevil Shute
She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens.
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Another great one!
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The action climax is rather intelligent and effective. It's a nice story, above average and made better by a sense of the times and a sense of flight in the bombers of WWII
A wonderful, dared story
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another great Shute novel
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Lovely Characters
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Good story & narration.
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What did you love best about Pastoral?
Pastoral puts the reader in to the daily life of a Royal Air Force Bomber Squadron during the early part of World War II.In the RAF at this time the loss rate among bomber crews was very high, it was at best a coin toss if any given crew member would survive to the end of a tour.
The crews were all very, very young. Many were teenagers. The primary male character was 23, the primary female was 21. Younger readers will be astounded at the very conservative code of behavior these young men and women lived with.
The commander of the whole air base, the Wing Commander, is 32.Put these young active men and women together in the pressure cooker of Bomber Command in WWII and you're going to have young love.
That's what this book is about.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Pastoral?
Just when I got kind of tired of teenage love sickness the pace of the book picks up as the crews fly dangerous bombing mission over Germany.What about Frank Muller’s performance did you like?
As usual for a Recorded Books LLC production, the recording quality is perfect in all respects. Muller was one of the best narrators every to read a recorded book.I only gave him four stars for this performance for two reasons:
1) There is a lot of dialog in this story. The main character is a 23 year old pilot. As great as he is, Muller has the voice of a man in his 50s. A younger narrator might have been more appropriate given the very young age of all the principal characters.
2) All though born in Europe, Muller moved to the United States at a the age of five. His accents are plausible, but still sound a bit like an American doing an English accent. I would have preferred that an Englishman read this book.
Who was the most memorable character of Pastoral and why?
The character who appears on the last page of the book.Any additional comments?
A slow paced basic love story placed in extraordinary times. It's a time machine back to the time that the Greatest Generation were young.When the Greatest Generation were young
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wonderful story!
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great love story
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A Nevil Shute renaissance ...
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Delightful
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