Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway · 2006
🎙 Narrated by John Slattery (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2006)
82/100
👍 Worth It
Hemingway's spare, aching war-and-love story holds up beautifully in audio, and John Slattery's narration is genuinely praised for convincing, versatile accent work across the cast. It ends tragically — an unmarried couple, wartime death, a stillbirth — so know that going in, but it's a classic for good reason and the reading does it justice.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Depicts an unmarried, sexually active couple (non-graphic) and ends with a stillbirth and the female lead's death — worth knowing going in, though handled with restraint.. We still scored it 82; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: excellent John Slattery is widely praised for versatile, convincing accent work across American, English, and Italian characters and both genders.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety65
Substance / usefulness88
Craft & writing88
Originality85
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit78
Human-eye read85
Penny’s verdict82
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