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Travels with My Aunt

By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over 50 years at his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon South wood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay...

Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA men, as well as smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life.

©1969 Graham Greene (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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stream of conseness

the development of asleept soul into emotional person. the unbelivble life of the old age .

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exciting travels

great story.
twisted but funny.
and especially well performed.
looking forward to the next novel.

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Total suprise

This was so surprising. Started slow, almost wanted to give up. And than, suddenly I couldn't put it down. Seemed like a simple story but every chapter made me think of life, of choices, of purpose.... life. The forever dilemma between "normal" life and adventure. Precious time. Ohhhh... the ending. Ohhhh....

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In the order Narrator-Story-0verall

Enjoyed the Aunt and the narrator was fantastic. Funny and light wit that little twist always in the background. Definitely worth a download

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More please!

I've read this book many times, it being a personal favourite so I wasn't sure whether hearing it as well would add anything but I was wrong: Tim Piggott-Smith brought it all to life. I didn't want it to end. I'll be listening to this one again.

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Disappointing


The first section was for me, tedious and almost screamingly frustrating. Tim Pigott-Smith is a decent reader, so what is going on here for his narration to be so horrible?

Maybe this is an "interpretation"?
This audio almost went into the 'returns', and may still do so. Sometimes I do keep an awful audio because there is no other reader and if I try really hard I can enjoy the story.

What could be a light enjoyable listen, had become something other, hard work. As I am not a great fan of G G, I do worry I maybe missing something here. The Third Man was good, though it did take Orson Wells to reveal that to me. So was TP-S using the dreadful Jeeves persona to hide a great secret revelation about GG?
Well I think another narrator could do a better job on this story, and doubt there is a Damascus moment to be had.

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Cute characters

My best friend recomended it to me over and over and over again... so there was too much hype.

I liked the charcaters, they were fun, but overall I was let down.

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greene's worst novel?

I have read almost everything by Greene, most of it on Audiobooks, but this one severely taxed my patience. Greene seems to have padded this out ad nauseum, and if this is an attempt to write a "comic" novel, it fails wretchedly. Avoid this one like the plague --and read as many of the other Greenes as you can get your hands on--especially as Audiobooks, all of which are beautifully read.

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