So I'm back on an audiobook thing! I don't know why, but I have been listening to some on Spotify and enjoying them. I started with a couple of shorter pieces just to see mostly if I could concentrate on audiobooks again. I really only use Spotify when I'm driving, and I don't do a lot of that by myself any more, so I tend to just choose some music to listen to. But I was fed up of listening to the same old playlists, so I thought some books might be good. The first one I reviewed recently, the Ernest Hemingway short story.
Then this one popped up. I've heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button because of the film, but I haven't seen it and I don't really know the story so I was intrigued. I also couldn't have told you that F Scott Fitzgerald wrote this book if my life had depended on it. I haven't ever read anything by him so that was a plus point for this book.
Plus the narrator on Spotify was really good! I really liked him and thought he brought a lot to the story. A good narrator can really made or break an audiobook for me.
So, Roger Button is a successful businessman, and married (albeit to a wife who has very little to do in the whole book, which I did find a bit odd), and their first child is born. When Roger visits him in the nursery he finds a seventy year old man in the bassinet, with his feet hanging over the edges.
Roger and his wife at first try to hide Benjamin's age by making him dye his hair and they try to pass him off as a five year old. As he gets 'older', he finds he cannot go to Harvard because staff think he is his own father and is trying to play the system. He gets married and has a son himself, and soon finds himself getting younger and younger, surpassing his wife in years. I knew the story vaguely but the way it was described was really good.
I liked this a lot and I also really liked the narrator which is good as that really adds to an audio book. I'm giving this four out of five!
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