James Joyce Audiobooks

Pucker Factor 10: a first-hand memoir with hundreds of listener verdicts behind it

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.3/5 average

756 listener ratings

Who is James Joyce?

Names repeat, and this one repeats loudly. Set any expectation of Dublin and modernism aside, because the book on this page belongs to an entirely different shelf. Pucker Factor 10 is filed with us under biography and memoir, alongside classics and heritage and science and engineering, and the phrase in the title comes from a world of instruments and nerve rather than from the library.

What our catalogue can state with confidence is that this is first-hand material. The memoir shelving is the clearest signal we have, and the cross-listing under science and engineering points towards a life spent around machinery.

The listener numbers are the other notable fact. Many hundreds of verdicts is uncommon for a personal account of this kind, and it usually means a readership found the book and passed it along.

James Joyce in audiobooks

Traber Burns narrates across roughly eight and a half hours, a length that gives a personal account room to breathe without letting it turn into an archive. The score is solid and, more to the point, it rests on a substantial number of ratings, which is what makes an average worth quoting at all.

There is no sequence and no reading order to consider. This is a self-contained listen.

If first-person accounts of high-pressure work hold your attention, this is a well-supported place to spend an evening or two. The listing is below.