This is my 3rd listen since I discovered this a few years ago. I lived in Denver at the time of Columbine. My brother lived 5 blocks from Columbine. After finishing his shift as a West Metro firefighter, he was returning home when the shooting was taking place. His children were too young to attend this school, but had neighbors who did. He went to the school as a caring parent, not as a first responder. This story tries to answer the questions everyone asked. Who's responsible? Who takes the blame? And why?? I could not fall asleep listening to this story. It's now 4:30am. I'm once again, sad. This story and production is exceptional in all facets of human nature and the need to connect. Exceptional!
I'm sorry to hear such a sad story. I've always admired Lionel Shriver's boldness in how she approached her treatment of events of this kind - including the possibility, I think, that as much as we might want there to be some way in which terrible events 'make sense' within themselves, it may be that they never will. I hope you find something to alleviate your sadness - there are many other less strikingly serious tales on this channel which may help...
This is beautiful!! Thank you! Eva’s character traits/flaws are fascinating - one detail is her body issues and her critical focus on the bodies of others and her very troubling s*xualized viewing of her incarcerated son’s maturing body contrasted with his potty problems and s*xual aggression etc as a child - and her memory of the strange SA-ish assault on Violetta that Kevin perpetrates and her *very* disturbing response to it. And, of course, there is her memory about the scar and her memory of what she did to Kevin to causenthe scar. Eva also she makes very critical remarks about other women’s bodies (such as her nasty remark re: the waitress’ birthmark, which is ironic as she is despairing that Kevin has remarked on it looking like “poop”). She languishes in privilege (her fetish-like treatment of her international traveling souvenirs, expensive furniture, “expensive Armenian rugs,” and decor in an expensive house). Eva also has a fat phobia throughout and flashes of racism and these are signs that Mom isn’t quite the person she imagines herself to be - (in the film also Kevin calls her out for it when they are at the restaurant when she’s attempting to bond with him unsuccessfully). In this context she’s writing to her (deceased) husband - yet she still displays a class arrogance and body consciousness that reveal more about how flawed she is truly…underneath it all - and how this reveals a great deal about Kevin and why he made be the way he is…
I feel like I owe your intelligent comments a proper response, but I fear that I wouldn't do them justice. I can only say that I'm pleased to have 'connected you' with this dramatisation as you're obviously so in tune with the kind of nuance and subtlety that Lionel Shriver wanted to achieve.
I read the book when it came out, I've seen the film a couple of times. Its intimacy suits a radio adaptation. The story shocks me every time, and Shriver is a masterful storyteller.
The audiobook is one of most excellent works of radio plays I have ever come to listen to.
This is my 3rd listen since I discovered this a few years ago. I lived in Denver at the time of Columbine. My brother lived 5 blocks from Columbine. After finishing his shift as a West Metro firefighter, he was returning home when the shooting was taking place. His children were too young to attend this school, but had neighbors who did. He went to the school as a caring parent, not as a first responder. This story tries to answer the questions everyone asked. Who's responsible? Who takes the blame? And why?? I could not fall asleep listening to this story. It's now 4:30am. I'm once again, sad. This story and production is exceptional in all facets of human nature and the need to connect. Exceptional!
I'm sorry to hear such a sad story. I've always admired Lionel Shriver's boldness in how she approached her treatment of events of this kind - including the possibility, I think, that as much as we might want there to be some way in which terrible events 'make sense' within themselves, it may be that they never will. I hope you find something to alleviate your sadness - there are many other less strikingly serious tales on this channel which may help...
The best reading I've ever listen. Great book. Wonderful voice.
Thank you for the upload
This is beautiful!! Thank you! Eva’s character traits/flaws are fascinating - one detail is her body issues and her critical focus on the bodies of others and her very troubling s*xualized viewing of her incarcerated son’s maturing body contrasted with his potty problems and s*xual aggression etc as a child - and her memory of the strange SA-ish assault on Violetta that Kevin perpetrates and her *very* disturbing response to it. And, of course, there is her memory about the scar and her memory of what she did to Kevin to causenthe scar.
Eva also she makes very critical remarks about other women’s bodies (such as her nasty remark re: the waitress’ birthmark, which is ironic as she is despairing that Kevin has remarked on it looking like “poop”). She languishes in privilege (her fetish-like treatment of her international traveling souvenirs, expensive furniture, “expensive Armenian rugs,” and decor in an expensive house). Eva also has a fat phobia throughout and flashes of racism and these are signs that Mom isn’t quite the person she imagines herself to be - (in the film also Kevin calls her out for it when they are at the restaurant when she’s attempting to bond with him unsuccessfully). In this context she’s writing to her (deceased) husband - yet she still displays a class arrogance and body consciousness that reveal more about how flawed she is truly…underneath it all - and how this reveals a great deal about Kevin and why he made be the way he is…
I feel like I owe your intelligent comments a proper response, but I fear that I wouldn't do them justice. I can only say that I'm pleased to have 'connected you' with this dramatisation as you're obviously so in tune with the kind of nuance and subtlety that Lionel Shriver wanted to achieve.
Your production quality is amazing
Thank you but it's definitely not mine - this is a BBC radio series I recorded when it was broadcast years back.
Very good thanks from CMC.
I read the book when it came out, I've seen the film a couple of times. Its intimacy suits a radio adaptation. The story shocks me every time, and Shriver is a masterful storyteller.
Thank you for uploading this.
Beautiful work by your channel! I have read this book and watched the movie too. Thank you for such a great work.
Thank you very much!
@@mysteriousmagpie Keep at it and you’re welcome! 🌸
Thankyou for the upload xxx.
Five years is a little low for a homicide like that, isn't it? Amazing reading, though! Really liked it, thank you!
It sounds astonishingly low - but Lionel Shriver's a very considered author so perhaps she based it on a real example of sentencing...
Is this the whole book
It's a dramatisation, rather than a reading.
@@mysteriousmagpiethank you!!
Woooooow the ending
No words
Have you watched the movie yet
who's the voice for kevin ?
Hear and understand EVERYONE bar the reader ...Anita... a pity.