The Last Chance Saloon
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Narrated by:
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Juanita McMahon
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By:
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Marian Keyes
About this listen
Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for 10 years. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism? Sure, Tara's got a boyfriend - but only because she's terrified of spending five minutes alone. Katherine, on the other hand, has a neatness fetish that won't let anyone too close to mess up her life. And Fintan? Well, he has everything. Until he learns that without your health, you've got nothing....
All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you....
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"Plenty of heart, lots of laughs, and a fantastic twist in the tail." (Cosmopolitan)
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Lizzy
- 10-04-15
Enjoyed this book
Enjoyed the story, took a while to get going and the Irish accent is not good but a nice and funny story
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- LeeB
- 05-06-19
Had to return this one
I’ve read this book so know how great it is. I had to return the audio book as I couldn’t get past the reader’s awful Irish accent. Not sure why they didn’t have an Irish person reading it. Love Marian Keyes though.
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- AFroggatt
- 30-12-19
Didn’t think I would like this but it was great
Loved the characters, very real. The reader is great, very good with the character differences and the lovely Irish accent, it’s not a page turner as such but I wanted to know what was happening to the characters. Good listen
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- S. Maguire
- 12-09-15
Narration ruins this
Is there anything you would change about this book?
Narration is horrendous, this is one of my favourite Marian Keyes books, I had forgotten about it until I saw it as a title in a recent BOGOF promo on Audible, now I know why it was free.
What did you like best about this story?
Great story
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Juanita McMahon?
Anyone, it would have done fine with any natural accent, it was the appalling attempt at an Irish accent that killed it.
Was The Last Chance Saloon worth the listening time?
Not in this incarnation
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 08-08-21
Awful Irish accent
I could not get past the first half hour of this book due to the awful Irish accent. I love these books and was so looking forward to loosing myself in the story so please get this narrated by someone else. The story seems good but the accent grated on me and I could not bring myself to listen any further.
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- sacha kelly
- 17-06-19
terrible accent renders unlistenable
this Is decent story. the only reason I know this is because I read it many years ago..
the performance of the Audio version is awful. very poor Irish accent that border on south west English accents. for that reason I stopped listening 1 chapter in.
that said I do love Marian Keyes and wouldnt stop me listening to other audio books
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- K. Hickman
- 02-10-22
narration so bad I had to stop
I know and love this book but couldn't get past 2nd chapter because of painfully bad accents by the narrator. Sounds like some kind of West Country farmer stereotype from a 1980s soap opera. I had to stop listening before whole book was ruined for me
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- SueG
- 31-10-19
I nearly gave up
It took quite a few chapters before this got interesting. I normally love Marian Keyes but it was fairly predictable. The narration was ok but it must be difficult for one person to cover so many voices. They were quite similar. Sorry - I miss the Walsh family stories.
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- JF
- 15-02-20
Narration ruined by TERRIBLE Irish accent!
I have read this book- along with all of the author's novels- so I knew the story, and it is pleasantly entertaining, with well written, engaging, (if somewhat exaggerated,) characters.
I took advantage of a sale to buy this, along with several others, and as I was getting a bargain I did not take the trouble to listen to the preview, as I typically would.
To quote a favourite film; Big mistake. Big. Huge.
One would have thought, with the name McMahon, that the narrator was, if not Irish, then perhaps at least of Irish origin.
Sadly this seems not to be the case. In fact it seems as if she has never even HEARD an Irish accent.
I can overlook the mispronunciation of certain common words and names, but what she does to the voices of the Irish protagonists is awful to the point of being a distraction from the story. She also attempts a brief flirtation with what I assume is supposed to be a Scottish accent which is equally as awful.
I'm struggling, I have to say. It's hard to focus on the plot when one keeps wincing at the voice!
Notwithstanding the inherent 'Irishness' of the characters, I think it would actually have been better if she had read them in her native accent. For me that would have been less distracting and annoying.
Sadly Ms McMahon is also the narrator of at least one more of the Marian Keyes books I bought in the sale :(
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- Emily
- 09-08-17
Awful reading ruined great story
This was the first Marian Keyes book I ever read 14 years ago. In my head, the Irish characters had Irish accents, but according to the woman who read this they actually sounded like drunks doing a racist accent whilst chewing on cotton wool.
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