Excellent start to finish

Would you consider the audio edition of Bridge of Spies to be better than the print version?

I would but only as I haven't had a chance to read the hardcopy. This has been my commuting companion.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Donovan as he had great nerve and went up against two superpowers. In the first instance he tried to defend Abel or Fischer as we come to know him instead of pretending like the US government wanted him to. Again when he negotiated with Soviets and the with CIA when he wanted priors.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

This is an historic event so I enjoyed the ingenuity shown by Donovan when dealing with bureaucrats.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Both.

Any additional comments?

This is a wonderful story with a bittersweet ending. The cold war made everyone a little crazy. No one except Donovan came off smelling of Roses.

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A long long listen

Having seen The Tom Hanks film, I was keen to download the audiobook. It's a long listen. Some of it can be related to the movie, lot's of it seems irrelevant to the story being told. The narrator is good, but it's a struggle to listen for long periods. In truth, large parts are boring. Shame, I expected better. In truth, the film plot is way more interesting than the book it is derived from.

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Captures the Cold War Era perfectly.

Would you listen to Bridge of Spies again? Why?

Yes, the narrative is great & the level of detail is superb.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Powers - a great insight into those finding themselves not only on the front line of the secret side of the Cold War but also thrust into the limelight.

What does Jonathan Keeble bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

He's a great narrator & his delivery is a please to listen to.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

A few raised eyebrow moments.

Any additional comments?

I only hope the film does justice to this production.

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Superb book full of details 👌

excellent narration this book has so many details regarding the events and the aftermath especially Paris

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Interesting, very good narrator. Good read

Well narrated. Interesting subject. In depth without being boring good read for any cold war fans

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Cracking cold war stuff

Any additional comments?

Exciting and pacy, this is an excellent cold war thriller, focusing on the personal stories that brought three people to that most quintessential spy moment - the exchange on the bridge.

The only slow moments are those which follow Frederic Pryor, the third person in the exchange. His story has to be included for completeness, but he comes across as a rather naive dilettante who got in over his head, and all we really care about is Gary Powers and Rudolf Abel.

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Tired

Please stop the readers of audible books trying to perform broken English accents,
Very annoying as most cannot do them .

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I was hoping this would be riveting like the film

I was hoping this would be riveting like the film. Sadly is was slow and very, very boring. Usually books are better than the film of the book but in this case I found the book poor and boring and didn't finish it.
I might try another book by the same author, but next time I will read the reviews first

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Beyond dull.

A lash up of basic Cold War history, any of which could be accessed from Wikipedia without taxing anyone's brain, and a few moronic conspiracy tropes chucked into the mix. The narration just about copes with the porridge like prose, but the Archangel Gabriel couldn't make this sound anything more than average. I watched the truly awful film and thought the source material couldn't possibly be worse, but I was wrong about that. Sententious, pretentious, infantile. A proper con job.

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Didn’t excite me

It started ok. But got boring really quickly and kept jumping from different years to people for no reason.

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