William White

A delight to listen to. Not read aloud, but told

Revisado: 11-29-20

I have read the Water Margin in writing (English). It is a great story and transports you to a different Era and Place.

But finally there is now a spoken version.
And what a great job was done in 80 podcasts.

No, it does not follow the book letter for letter. Yes, it is amusing and nicely told. It is told as you would expect one to tell you an old story. Small interruptions to clarify things add to this cozy way of having a story told to you. And that is how it probably mostly was done in the old days from generation to generation.
For me this is a great way of rediscover this ancient tale.
Mr. Zhu, combine it to one audiobook and I be your first buyer>

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Very good base story

Revisado: 07-26-19

The underlying base i liked very much...but, yes there is a but, is that for me the story should have been told in half the time, not referring to the performer. Holmes (like)stories should be imho more clean, not the while time hinting on what has yet to cone, especially as the head person in the book tells the story from first perspective and presents herself as a kind of heir of Sherlockian ways. But as said the base was good, so maybe I will try another book from this writer.

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Just too much

Revisado: 09-09-18

Let me start to say I wouldn't be able to write any tale, let alone such a great epic. My remarks are thus mere the ones from a reader than from someone pretending to know about writing.

I didn't write a review earlier although I have read many books. This was the first book ever I didn't finish listening and the sad part is that it is not because it is a bad tale.

From the beginning, the feel of the book is familiar (not strange as I read lots of Fantasy). Much is a common mixture of all the masters. It is the underlying thread of something big and strong that kept me from reading on. The trouble starts quite early then. From zero to a hundred in 3 secs is too much. It becomes ongoing use of words like, never, never before, never after, ever, forever and all superlatives that are to be found. For an epic ending, it can work, but not over and over and over again (See even three times annoys). Basically, it makes the story unbalanced and feels like watching Dragon Ball Z. Amounts used in the book of troops leave the logistics being impossible and that makes it unbelievable. Readers of fiction know that even fiction must in itself have some logic.
I have thought long about how to describe my feelings. The best way I can come up with is "The Hobbit". That beautifully written story compared to the movie it became. Godsland is like the movie, in itself over the top with loads of climaxes, but you know that beneath that is that sublime story. In small parts, I am in that story, but then Peter Jackson takes over again. After 4,5 hours I couldn't go any further. I hate myself for that, I want to know how it ends....maybe just listen the last hour? I don't know.
And the performance? For me it feels likes the narrator had the same feeling at some point. How to express the next ever before? For Darts how to say 240 after 180 and the 300?
But he does his utmost and has a good voice.
Again, not to bash an author that is better in one page then I can deliver in 1000. Maybe to inspire him to make the underlying tale anew and let the diamond shine on its own power.

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a delight

Revisado: 09-30-14

If there is one small negative to say it would be the speed of the narrater. I needed some time to adjust to that. But after that it is a s said in the title a delight to hear him read the story. And what a story it is. Without spoiling to much its fair to say that none are beyond faults, doubts and in risk of dying. It is for sure not an all good people are save story

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