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Excellent narrator

Revisado: 12-05-21

I’m very picky about narrators, especially when I haven’t read the book before. And in this case, it’s a book that had been on my “to read” list for a long while. But the performance is excellence, there’s no exaggeration to try to give every character a different voice, but characters do have different voices that bring them to life. And Massey adds to the text, instead of detracting or adding nothing like too many readers. The writing is fantastic but her reading brings it to life - this is one of those rare recording where there are literary motifs and styles that I don’t think would have come across so strongly for me had I been reading. If you’ve been meaning to read Rebecca but haven’t gotten around to it, and aren’t sure about an audio book being your introduction to this classic - hesitate no longer.

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The perfect series for comfort reading

Revisado: 09-03-21

The year is 2021. A plague devastates the countryside. My healthiest coping mechanism is spending as much time as possible in the town of Shrewbury in the 1100s - particularly in the herbarium at the monastery of St Peter and St Paul. Patrick Tull is a great narrator for the Brother Cadfael books, and Brother Cadfael books are the perfect mystery series for when the world feels like it’s falling apart. Good wins, the bad are treated with fairness and gentleness, and every storyline wraps up as tidily as you can hope for. Each story manages to be engaging, but with the comfort of a mystery series where you can start to predict and guess. You don’t have to listen in order, but I recommend it.

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Fantastic reading

Revisado: 07-08-21

The translation is excellent and lively, but Wallis truly brings it to life. Both text and reader keep true to the spirit of the original but in a way that keeps it alive - nothing stuffy and droning here. I’ve read Sir Gawain other times and in other translations and have appreciated it but never wanted to start over as soon as I was done, which is what I did with this. The performance alone makes it worth a second listen, but the translation deserves close attention too

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Fantastic reading

Revisado: 02-07-21

If you love Dickens, this recording will be an absolute delight and a reminder of all the things you love about his writings. If you’re impartial to his work, Margolyes’ performance may just make you fall in love. And if you could never get into his work, or Bleak House in particular, she does all the hard lifting for you. Often when readers give different characters voices it’s annoying and distracting, but Margolyes skills bring them all to life in their fullest and highlights the delightful mannerisms and particularities that makes Dickens’ characters so memorable. The only reason the book ending isn’t upsetting is because I’ve found Richard Armitage’s reading of David Copperfield - a novel which I’m not sure I would have thought to look for if Margolyes hadn’t reminded me of how delightful Dickens can be on long winter evenings.

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