{"id":4385,"date":"2020-03-11T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2020-02-25T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:45:46","slug":"audiobook-review-the-river-by-peter-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2020\/03\/audiobook-review-the-river-by-peter-heller.html","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Review : The River by Peter Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTitle : The River
\nAuthor : Peter Heller
\nNarrators : Mark Deakins
\nGenre : Mystery\/Adventure
\nPublisher : Random House Audio
\nListening Length : 7 hours 18 minutes
\nRating : 4\/5
\nNarrator Rating : 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n

The River is my second Peter Heller book after the magnificent Dog Stars<\/a><\/strong>. And this is very different from that post-apocalyptic world, different but still pretty good.<\/p>\n

Friends Wynn and Jack decide to canoe the Canadian Maskwa river. Both love this, and look forward to some leisurely boating, pipe-smoking and reading. However this relaxing journey through the wilderness gets dangerous fast. The two spot a huge forest fire heading towards them. To top that they meet a couple of unsavory characters and then a man whose wife has apparently gone missing.<\/p>\n

As minimalists who like being close to nature Wynn and Jack have packed the bare essentials. They have not a satellite phone nor a fast boat to take them to civilization and safety, or even to call for help. When trouble comes these normally gentle boys will need to take a stand, and trouble comes in spades.<\/p>\n

Peter Heller knows how to tell a story. Yes, he uses sentence fragments, but it fits in the flow, and there’s a certain simplicity, a certain quaint earnestness to his telling. He describes his characters well, at times going into rhapsodies over the outdoorsy details. The book is not quite a heart-pounding adventure, but it has its moments.<\/p>\n

I thought that the two boys, and they were young college boys, had the maturity and surety of much older men. Other than that slight oddity, I enjoyed this book very much. It is a well-told tale and has its poignant moments. Mark Deakins enhanced the pleasure of this Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee with his great narration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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