You Can't Go Home Again

By: Thomas Wolfe

Narrated by: NBC Theater

Length: 54 mins

Publisher's summary

George Webber, a first-time author, writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. The book is a success, except in Libya Hill, where the residents believe that it paints an extremely distorted portrait of their town. They send Webber menacing letters, including death threats.

©2010 Saland Publishing (P)2010 Saland Publishing

too short

you said review optional and now I can't escape this screen, let alone am unable to free up space on my device

Disappointed

As another reviewer wrote, this isn't the book. It's an abridged NBC broadcast of the story. I was disappointed.

Pretty darn good

Loved the performances, and I adored the themes, but the ending was a bit lacking

It is a summary of the novel

Sadly, this is just a summary of the novel. Yet, it captures the essence. The acting in the recording is of fairly low standard. The recording is scratchy and poor, too. Yet, the novel has substance that deserves to a part of Audible. The book deserves better.

Audio

The musical interlude’s volume was so loud I had to turn down the audio every time it came on. Then the characters can’t be heard until the volume is turned back up.
This goes on for the full hour.

Should not have been attempted

My wife tells me this is a great book which had an impact on her life. You sure couldn’t tell it by this version. To be fair, I thoughtI was ordering the whole book, not this short mishmash of vignettes which I assume were short scenes therein. The theme of the book was spoken several times but only very simplistically represented by a few of the scenes. The worst part was the obnoxious, loud, and over dramatic music played whenever there was a pause in the narrative which, most of the time, seemed completely out of sync with the narrative. That was worse than the continuous scratchy background making it sound like you were listening to an old record. I only paid $3 for this but I don’t think it was worth even that.

I want my credit back.

Terrible. Recording has skips, repeats. It's not the book, so this is false advertising. The script is not how Thomas Wolfe would have written it. The acting and direction are infantile. Audio quality and transfer poor. Music straight from the worst of Hollywood. Flubbed lines.

Not the whole book but a great performance of it

This is the first Wolfe novel I’ve read (listened to) and I loved it. I’ll have to get the unabridged version of it to get the full picture, but the actors performed very well in this, well worth the listen.

this little short story book was fantastic.

the book was well written and the characters were awesome the music was great everything about the book was fantastic.

Don't waste your time or money

This recording skips and repeats. I'm surprised something of this bad quality is even on Audible. It isn't the book either.