Pre-numbered label used for registration.

A CD audiobook, but how could I resist? When I see this title and discover that it's about a victim of abuse and alienation?

Some minor issues with the physical discs. Tracks aren't every three minutes; but every 5 to 8 minutes. No big issue, really, but I think maybe thaty's why I could get it on eBay so cheap. A batch of mismarked CD books...

This tale's a much more violent version of A SEPERATE PEACE on some levels. But there's a weirdness dynamic and a brother dynamic the classic novel is missing. Oh, and let's not forget the hazing...

I kept expecting some male on male sexual tension, but it never quite surfaces. Unless you count dry-humping hazing, of course. Brad's very much a submissive and he seems almost to invite the trouble he gets. If only he could force himself to say NO to someone. To anyone.

RELEASE NOTES:

To Canada and back! I hope this finds a good home in the Great White North!

My Maple Leaf bookbox has returned home, and, MY, how it has grown! Unfortuneately, this didnt find a good home in Canada, so perhaps bookrelay.com can help...

Received in the mail from Brick, New Jersey, USA, for the Audiobooks Bookrelay. Unabridged on 6 CDs; approx. 6 hours, 15 minutes. Read by Nick Landrum. ISBN 1402573677. Reader's guide available at randomhouse.com. Read more at goatthebook.com.

From the back of the box
At turns shockingly fierce and surprisingly tender, Goat is a shattering memoir that graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men. Author Brad Land's story is one of heartbreak and loneliness, but also of bravery and hope in an increasingly brutal world.
Brad is driving two strangers home from a party when he realizes they are leading him to the middle of nowhere. Viciously beaten and left in the middle of the road, Brad survives. But as his physical injuries heal, his psychological wounds worsen. Desperate to belong, he follows his brother to Clemson University and pledges the same fraternity. What he finds is not brotherhood and support, but alienation and more violence.
An astonishing debut, Goat is a raw story of survival--all the more powerful for being true--that will linger in your memory forever.

*****
January 2006
This is the first memoir I've read/listened to since A Million Little Pieces, so I took it all with a grain of salt. Both the writing and the reading are flat, without affect, so it was hard to care about Brad or what was happening to him. Nor does he -- as Greyflank notes, Brad is way too passive. There's no real plot; if you read the box, you know everything that happens.

Mailed to Firegirl in Mesa, Arizona, USA, with Jump the Shark in trade for Under the Tuscan Sun, News from Lake Wobegon: Fall and News from Lake Wobegon: Winter.

Arrived today -- thanks so much!

I couldn't get into this, for some reason, so I'm sending it out in trade. Enjoy!

This arrived in PA and my husband will get to this soon.

Thanks!

My husband's cd player broke and he never listened to this. I passed it along to a friend.

Got this at a thriftstore three years ago and never had the time to listen to fully it. I started back then and just didn't hold my interest. Maybe someone else will like it.