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WORST EVER READER

Revisado: 02-18-15

Would you try another book from Robert Ellis and/or Jim McCance?

NEVER -- especially from the reader

What was most disappointing about Robert Ellis’s story?

MOST IMPROBABLE

How did the narrator detract from the book?

EVERY VOICE WAS BADLY DONE DIALECT OR TONE; DISTRACTING, IRRITATING; I had the sense that he lost steam towards the end of this very long tale, lost track of the voice he was attempting by the end of its lines

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Dead Room?

I didn't care enough to pay that much attention.

Any additional comments?

I've been a listener from the inception of the company, especially love mysteries, but this was a fairy tale with the absolutely worst reader, among only a few bad ones in my listening career. I ought to have returned the book before the investment of time.

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good author - bad narrator

Revisado: 01-01-14

What did you love best about The Two Hotel Francforts?

This is a well-written and well-told story. The overall novel was poorly narrated such that reading it would have been preferable.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The dog, who was the cohesive character, without having a voice to render.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Stephen Bel Davies?

Anyone else who knew how to pronounce properly the languages (French, Portuguese) used occasionally, other than English; any other voice actor would likely have done a better job in differentiating the characters from each other with use of a different voice.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I never listen to any book in one sitting.

Any additional comments?

I rarely write a review, but am moved to do so because of the poor performance of the narrator, whose agent ought to restrict him to books without foreign languages in them. Knowing a few of these languages caused the occasional cringe at his mispronunciation.

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my ears hurt from this

Revisado: 09-17-13

Would you try another book from Lee Child and/or Dick Hill?

no, I'm done: Child's formulaic and Hill is a mannered reader who I find annoying.

Would you ever listen to anything by Lee Child again?

probably not - I've outgrown them. I always figure out what's going to happen, Reacher is always the same.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He puts his own spin on the words that makes me wonder if those inflections are in the text, doesn't modulate his voices and his female ones are awful, not consistent voices either, but consistently awful.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

A bit of anger but a huge helping of disappointment.

Any additional comments?

Why didn't I return it? I'm so grateful that Amazon has enabled doing so; in the past I bought scores of books that I never listened to.

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Easy to Listen To

Revisado: 02-10-09

a little bit of hashed prose, but fun

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impossible to follow

Revisado: 02-10-09

a hodge podge, very annoying

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