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Black Swan Green
by David Mitchell
from Books on Tape

Features:

• Audiobook
• Unabridged

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Vivid, Rewarding
  This was an incredibly rewarding novel with some of the most beautiful prose I've read in a contemporary author. For those of you that have trouble with morphed language and slang (hint: it's british, and I'm not even sure brit's will understand all of it), try to exhibit some patience through the first few chapters. In my opinion, it was vital to the imagery evoked throughout the novel in helping immerse the reader in the adolescent world of 1980s England. Speaking of - Mitchell does a wonderful job... more info

• Decent read but unremarkable
  The novel covers one year in the life of thirteen year old Jason Taylor during the 1980s in Worcestershire, England. I'm not really sure why the author chose to create a character that can resemble almost any child at that time and place. Even though Jason was a good kid, maturing month by month into a teenager, his world seemed no different than anyone else's. Of course there was the two month long war in the Falkland Islands where the casualties touched close to Jason's home but that seemed to come to an... more info

• Wonderful coming of age novel
  Jason Taylor is 13 and grows up in a small village, Black Swan Green. He has all the usual problems boys of that age have: his sister is a [...], his parents do not understand him and there is a very strict hierarchy among the village boys (from absolute losers to the most popular boy of the village) and you have to constantly watch your act to make sure that you do not become a loser. And apart from that he is a secret poet and is pestered by "Hangman": a to Jason very real personality who impedes his... more info

• Gradually engaging, but not memorable
  I've heard many good things about David Mitchell (but have not yet read his others), and was provoked by the blurb proclaiming Black Swan Green as a British Catcher in the Rye. Ultimately, however, I found this book to be fine but uninspiring. The narrator mostly came off as being dim, rather than just being 13, but I don't think that was the point. In fact, I could not get The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time out of my head as I was reading Black Swan Green--though the former is narrated by an... more info

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