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Doltish AI-written text

Revisado: 10-10-24

Not only is the narrator an AI creation, but so is the content. You’ll listen to long paragraphs in which nothing is actually communicated.

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Forster’s greatest

Revisado: 10-06-23

The narrator is brilliant, although I wish he didn’t feel the need to satirize Adela quite so much.

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As thoughtful as you would expect

Revisado: 09-24-23

It’s Forster, after all. Funny and self-deprecating, the author of what may be the finest English novel sifts through aspects of the genre. It’s sometimes revealing to consider what he says in relation to his own _A Passage to India_.

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Mr. McDonald channels George Will

Revisado: 12-12-20

I used to love these books as a kid, and this was the first I had read in decades. It turns out to be another dumb screed against academia. Mr. McDonald did some deep research -- that is, he read some culture-war screeds in the newspaper -- and is sorry to have to inform us that Universities are teaching our children nothing but relativism and a hatred of "white males."

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Buy it -- you won't be disappointed

Revisado: 04-18-17

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This is beautifully written and very hard to put down. You get hooked. I only wish the audio narrator were a little better. She seems to think that if a sentence contains the word "joy" then her voice must be in a rapture when she reads the word, or that she should growl when the subject of anger comes up. That may be a slight exaggeration, but she certainly should use less inflection and trust more in the writing and its ability to evoke the right emotion.In any case, the book is gripping and deep.

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Great performance

Revisado: 10-20-05

This isn't my favorite Lawrence novel, but this reader is absolutely the best I have encountered in an audiobook. She is a rare find: a reader who really understands what is and what is not important in a novel, and who is conscious at every moment of what the prose -- and especially the dialogue -- means.

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Get this edition -- not the Davidson version!

Revisado: 09-08-05

This is a good reading of one of English literature's most fascinating novels. Get this edition; Do not buy the Frederick Davidson reading, which absolutely the worst narration I've ever encountered.

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Terrible narrator -- Great novel

Revisado: 09-08-05

This is one of my favorite novels of all time; but this narrator is absolutely terrible. The passages in which Conrad's Marlow is clearly supposed to be speaking with a quiet, growling intensity are read by this narrator as if Marlow were a very bored and effete snob. He reads the entire novel this way. I bought this audiobook and couldn't possibly listen to more that ten minutes of it; so I got the Kandinsky reading instead (also available on audible.com), which is infinitely superior.

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