Don't Stop the Carnival

By: Herman Wouk

Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto

It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster - of a sort peculiar to the tropics - ensue.)

It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and best-selling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving.

©1965, 1993, 1999 Herman Wouk (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Wouk was a master of human relationships.

An easy listen that follows the misadventures of New Yorker, Norman Paperman, who tries to follow his dream and run a Caribbean resort. Caos and a cast of crazy characters keep the story moving along. A good book from a great author.

Throughly enjoyable!

Well written. Well narrated. An often overlooked Wouk masterpiece. Even more entertaining than my other favorite Wouk classic City Boy.

Tropical Masterpiece

Wasn’t sure what to expect having grown up a nearly religious fan of Jimmy Buffett and familiar with the soundtrack to the musical. Finally having time to hear the full story, I found truly amazing characterization and tales almost too crazy not to originate in someone’s truth. Timeless! I wish I had been able to see the musical adaptation in its’ time.

Don't expect The Caine Mutiny

The main character was impulsive and foolish to the very end. Very frustrating to read if you admire people who think through decisions and make logical decisions. Everything that could go wrong goes wrong, but it's not humorous antics. And just when it goes right, it ends.

Mista Papah

Life changing, makes me want to become an ad man in New York. Glad it’s finally on Audible.