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Why? Why? Why?

Revisado: 03-30-06

This biography by Nigel Nicolson affords readers an intimate look at Virginia Woolf. Due to the writer's proximity to Woolf when he was a child, some new and useful information has been added to the portrait that the many Woolf biographers have painted. While I personally disagree with some of the conclusions drawn by the author regarding Woolf's response to childhood abuse and others items, these are certainly subjects that are endlessly debatable and not cause for concern to listeners wanting to purchase the audiobook.

The primary reason the audiobook suffers and should give consumers a moment to pause before purchasing is the audiobook narrator. If the speaker's American accent is not enough to damage the recording irreparably, then certainly the narrator's come-hither purr does.
The reader is not poor per se, just completely inappropriate for the subject matter.

Also, several words are mispronounced on several occasions throughout the work and in one case the narrator is allowed, presumably by the audio editors, to read the same sentence twice pronouncing the dancer Lydia Lopokova's name differently in each version.

I can't image what the developers of the audiobook were thinking.

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