Henry V

Welp, that was painful

Revisado: 08-16-23

Hard to listen to this collection of feeble skits. The whole thing is like bad Monty Python... or like the average sitcom. Broad, cheesy humor. I'm surprised the book has so many fans.

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More like You’re Not Broken!

Revisado: 02-28-23

Please make more like the most recent episode! You’re Not Broken is a very sexy listen.

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You can’t account for taste…

Revisado: 11-27-22

I have loved this book for years, and I assumed most readers recognized it as a landmark achievement in fantasy, on the level of The Lord of the Rings. So I’m very surprised to see the negative reviews. Ok, sure, it’s a slow story, but it’s rich. It’s full of comedy and adventure and fun characters. But I guess some people just don’t jive with it. Alas for them! They are missing out!

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Not as good as Mythos

Revisado: 09-20-22

Heroes is not as good as its predecessor. But that’s not Stephen Fry’s fault. The stories of the heroes are monotonous. They face monster after monster, then they suffer horribly. Again and again. Fry’s charm and wit can only do so much. They can’t make the monotony less monotonous.

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A mixed bag

Revisado: 05-21-22

The story had a great beginning and ending, but the middle was a slog. The narrator at first felt corny, but his voice was right for the story. He did a good job.

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Format is absurd

Revisado: 04-13-22

The audiobook bunches the stories up into artificial chapters. No titles, no help whatsoever to find the story you want. It’s very silly. But I’m sure it saved the audio engineer some time…

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A wonderful story during Covid

Revisado: 05-01-21

I listened to this last year at the height of Covid, isolated in my house. It was marvelous. The first half is better than the second half (mostly because Dantes has to be noble and not REALLY get revenge). But still... the chill you get up your spine when you know what the villains do not: that they are in the company of their victim, and he is entrapping them. Oof. So good.

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Second-best deal on Audible

Revisado: 03-22-21

The stories are wonderful, as always, and these classic recordings are icing on the cake. My favorite is The Horse and His Boy, as thrilling an adventure story as you will find in this world or any other.

P.S. The first-best deal is Stephen Fry reading all of Sherlock Holmes.

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But the way he speaks?

Revisado: 03-18-21

It’s full of inspiring stories and pearls of wisdom. But we are only hearing about successes. We would learn even more if Guy Raz looked at failures too.

But my bigger complaint? Is the way the author speaks. When he goes up on every other sentence? It’s very annoying. I’m sure he is a nice guy? So I don’t mean to be harsh. But after a while? You want to hurt him.

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Narrator gets worse and worse

Revisado: 03-11-21

At first I wondered what all the negative reviews we’re talking about. The narrator seemed fine to me. As the book went on, something strange happened to his voice. It was like he stopped taking in the meaning of the words and was just reading the words on autopilot. It became very difficult to understand because the emphasis was constantly in the wrong place, pauses were oddly robotic... yeah, that’s a good word overall. Robotic. The guy started to sound like a robot.

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