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A friend recommended this one and it fit perfectly for this month’s Heroes and Villains category for my Nonfiction challenge.
The reviews of the audio edition almost made me go with the print, but my friend listened to it and enjoyed it. I listened to a sample and the narrator was fine. Once I started listening, I bumped up the speed to 1.25 and was quite comfortable listening it that way.
The book itself is quite interesting. If the only thing you know about Bonnie and Clyde is the 1967 movie with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, then you don’t know much that’s true about Bonnie and Clyde.
I’d heard good things about Jeff Guinn’s books and after listening to this one I am positive that I will be putting his other books on my TBR list.
He provided plenty of fascinating information about both Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as well as their extended families. The families are definitely part of the story because Clyde and Bonnie (it was never Bonnie first until Beatty’s movie put her first) made regular trips back to the Dallas, Texas area to visit their families.
I learned a lot about them and also about the men that eventually ambushed them in rural Louisiana. Once they were established in their life of crime neither Clyde nor Bonnie expected to live very long. They expected that they would be killed by law enforcement officers.
I thought this was a fascinating book. As I said the narration was fine but not anything that would make me seek out other books narrated by the same person. Listen to the sample at Audible and make your own decision regarding audio or print but if you have any interest, I do recommend the book.
The reviews of the audio edition almost made me go with the print, but my friend listened to it and enjoyed it. I listened to a sample and the narrator was fine. Once I started listening, I bumped up the speed to 1.25 and was quite comfortable listening it that way.
The book itself is quite interesting. If the only thing you know about Bonnie and Clyde is the 1967 movie with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, then you don’t know much that’s true about Bonnie and Clyde.
I’d heard good things about Jeff Guinn’s books and after listening to this one I am positive that I will be putting his other books on my TBR list.
He provided plenty of fascinating information about both Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as well as their extended families. The families are definitely part of the story because Clyde and Bonnie (it was never Bonnie first until Beatty’s movie put her first) made regular trips back to the Dallas, Texas area to visit their families.
I learned a lot about them and also about the men that eventually ambushed them in rural Louisiana. Once they were established in their life of crime neither Clyde nor Bonnie expected to live very long. They expected that they would be killed by law enforcement officers.
I thought this was a fascinating book. As I said the narration was fine but not anything that would make me seek out other books narrated by the same person. Listen to the sample at Audible and make your own decision regarding audio or print but if you have any interest, I do recommend the book.