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The Kennedy Curse
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable....
Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonymous with American royalty.
Their commitment to public service is legendary. But, for all the successes, the family has been blighted by assassinations, murder, fatal accidents, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and sex scandals.
To this day, the Kennedys occupy a unique, contradictory place in the world's imagination: at once charmed and cursed; familiar and unknowable. The Kennedy Curse is a revealing, fascinating account of America’s most famous family, as told by the world's most trusted storyteller.
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- Brian
- 16-05-20
Somewhat disjointed and superficial
The fact that the narrative chronology is based on individual characters rather than on events by necessity causes significant jumping forwards and back in time as each new character is referenced. This gave the book a disjointed feeling for me and I couldn’t really get into it.
Some of the characters and events lack the detail I had anticipated.
All in all I had been quite excited about this book when I downloaded it but it never really gripped or even engaged me, which was disappointing.
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- Neal Chamberlain
- 30-06-20
Kennddy Curse review
A compelling story, well written and researched. I wish the reader had resisted the temptation to read the quotes in a Kennedy accent.
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- Kath
- 25-05-20
Horrible family, full of own importance
Book well written. Narrator does voices, they grate sometimes. History well served as biographies go.
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- Angelcritique
- 12-11-20
Some insights
Reads like an ordinary biography. Only a few correlations with the 'curse'. Some insights into the family members' lifestyles and relationships. When it comes to the JFK assassination, unbelievably the author pushes the 'lone gunman' theory. Well narrated.
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- Judi H.
- 15-10-20
Forced to write a review.
Why audible forcing people to write reviews, it locks you on the page until done - this silly marketing ploy should be banned
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- M S Spiers
- 07-06-20
Cut the music!
Fascinating book, great insight, I thoroughly enjoyed it........apart from the infuriating music between chapters. This really detracted from the book.
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- FKblue
- 31-05-20
Super narration for this
Very well written and structured account of the Kennedy family. The non-linear style works extremely well and the narration is superb.
I listened intently over 2 days and was well worth it.
Would highly recommend to anyone interested in finding out more about this prominent family or details of the so-called ‘Kennedy curse’.
5 stars all round!
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- Bess
- 17-06-22
Interesting
Very interesting in fact, contains a lot of information new to me.
The narration was really good except when switching to the voice of Jackie Kennedy,
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- Neil
- 06-01-22
really great story telling
superbly written and narrated. some nice insights all wonderfully woven together to shed some light on this remarkable family