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    The Sound of Thunder: The Great Novel of a Man Enslaved by Passion and Cursed by His Own Success
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    The Sound of Thunder: The Great Novel of a Man Enslaved by Passion and Cursed by His Own Success

    Written by Taylor Caldwell

    Narrated by Laurence Bouvard

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    Money. Power. Prestige. These were the riches that destiny had awarded Edward Enger, but a greedy, ruthless family conspired against him and his own relentless desires enslaved him! As the descendant of a German immigrant, Edward built a business empire and dominated three generations of his family. Caldwell weaves the tale of a modern financial genius and the secret passions that obsessed him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateNov 29, 2016
    ISBN9781520049441
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    The Sound of Thunder: The Great Novel of a Man Enslaved by Passion and Cursed by His Own Success
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    Taylor Caldwell

    Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel, Dynasty of Death (1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were New York Times bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas The Sound of Thunder (1957), Testimony of Two Men (1968), Captains and the Kings (1972), and Ceremony of the Innocent (1976), and the spiritually themed novels The Listener (1960) and No One Hears But Him (1966). Dear and Glorious Physician (1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and Great Lion of God (1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell’s last novel, Answer as a Man (1981), hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.  

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    • 2/5
      Let me start by saying that I'm not afraid to tackle "thick" tomes (I am a Diana Gabaldone fan, so I'm familiar with books that run over a thousand pages), but this novel that ran just a bit over five hundred pages, would have been so much better if it ran a bit over three hundred pages. There was so much of the story that was just "filling" that I had no other choice but to "skim" through those pages.

      The bones and the structure of the story wasn't bad, but I think the pacing made the story less interesting and appeared to drag at times.

      As for the characters, they were all interesting and some were just a bit too over the top, but they kept my interest but by the end, the story wrapped too quickly and left me frustrated.

      For me, this read was just okay.

      Melanie for b2b

      Complimentary copy provided by the publisher
    • 4/5
      A most excellent production of a book that is timely politically now as it was then, with myriad of insights into many aspects of the human condition, applicable to any generation as well. The book goes off the rails here and there with conspiracy theories that are, at least, a bit thought provoking. One thing I learned is that even back in 1920’s, progressives wanted the government to control the weather, an example of how some things never change.