Todd Mclaren reads THE IMMORTALISTS

As stated earlier, I intend to seek out the work of Todd Mclaren. His work performing ALTERED CARBON and BROKEN ANGELS was so stellar, I want to discover if Mclaren can elevate other books as he did those favorites of mine by Richard K. Morgan. The book THE IMMORTALISTS by David M. Friedman is a dual biography of Dr. Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindberg and is indeed made interesting by Mclaren's reading. As with the fiction books Mclaren again employs character accents for every quote. Each person gets his own voice. I cannot emphasize too strongly how much this enhances the listening experience.

This book is a revelation of a side of Charles Lindberg, of which I had no idea. Far more than the adventurer of his historical persona, Lindberg was a scientist studying the external animation of internal organs and political activist that was once enamoured with Nazi Germany, thinking it the salvation of Western Civilization. He later fought against the Third Reich, and came to see the West as the bane of human survival. He, too, came to have an understanding of mortality as superior to immortality. Nobel prize-winning, Dr. Alexis Carrel is included in the story because of his fundamental influence upon Lindberg, but the book primarilly concerns Lindberg.

I can recommend this book for its wide-ranging depiction of the famous Charles Lindberg and for Todd Mclaren's excellent reading.