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A review by tekchic
The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory by Julie Checkoway
3.0
Interesting story, a bit long with lots of stats, but still really enjoyed the story about some poor kids from the sugar cane plantation on Maui that eventually made it to the Olympics in the late 1940's.
Minus an extra star though for the narrator (listened to this one on audiobook). RANT WARNING: Five minutes of "how to pronounce Japanese and Hawaiian names" training would have made this far more enjoyable. His pronunciation was atrocious and incorrect, rarely getting any of the Hawaiian names right, and sometimes saying "eeee-o" instead of "aaaa-o" for names like Keo. Narrator kept pronouncing it like "Kio" (like you would say Kia the car maker) instead of "Kay-o". Drove me up a wall. "Molokai", which can be pronounced "Mo-lo-kai" or more correctly, "Mo-lo-ka--i", he pronounced "Mo-lo-kuh--aaai". Oy.
Minus an extra star though for the narrator (listened to this one on audiobook). RANT WARNING: Five minutes of "how to pronounce Japanese and Hawaiian names" training would have made this far more enjoyable. His pronunciation was atrocious and incorrect, rarely getting any of the Hawaiian names right, and sometimes saying "eeee-o" instead of "aaaa-o" for names like Keo. Narrator kept pronouncing it like "Kio" (like you would say Kia the car maker) instead of "Kay-o". Drove me up a wall. "Molokai", which can be pronounced "Mo-lo-kai" or more correctly, "Mo-lo-ka--i", he pronounced "Mo-lo-kuh--aaai". Oy.