Dimitri

The narrator’s pacing was great. It felt like a recitation.

Revisado: 04-01-25

I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. As a student of mythology, the narrator’s tone was wonderful as it did not get in the way of the imagery presented in the text. It felt more like a recitation. Evenly paced, great characterization without ever feeling over done.

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Great collection with some odd pronunciations and word choices

Revisado: 12-14-24

It’s nice to have this as a starting point for exploration of global mythology. I was occasionally distracted by poor word choices (the most recent being “genuflect” instead of “reflect” in one of the last stories in the Egyptian mythology section) and the admirable effort at Chinese pronunciation for the Chinese mythology set which just did not work.
So yeah - a great starting point.

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Good fun - including a tired sounding page turn!

Revisado: 12-06-22

A wonderful performance that includes a rather honest sounding page turn somewhere in the last part of the book.

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Wonderful

Revisado: 09-30-22

Hearing a voice deliver this material makes it so much more alive than it feels on paper.

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Audio quality is secretly lacking

Revisado: 08-13-22

The content is wonderful! Hillman is always insightful and incredibly engaging… the audio on the other hand is a major impediment to the enjoyment of this presentation. With audio technology and processing it MUST be possible to create a better offering than this!

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A fearless performance of a fearful work

Revisado: 06-17-22

Brilliant! The classic comes alive in this wonderful reading! It is hard to imagine it in any other voice.

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Insightful, but oh... the pronunciation

Revisado: 02-21-20

This is a wonderful translation of the Tao Te Ching. The narrator does a wonderful job but I wish more attention was paid to the pronunciation of the Chinese words and names.

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Utterly superb

Revisado: 11-24-19

One of my favorite stories of all time, here performed by a the author and a perfect cast of voice actors.

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0 research went into performing a fantastic text

Revisado: 08-26-19

I’m not sure how anyone who is not interested in the source material could read all this, nor how anyone interested in it could permit themselves to so brutally massacre the pronunciations of even the simplest names or characters and places. The content is great - the reading, not so much.

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Beautiful and strange but not easy to listen to for long stretches

Revisado: 06-06-19

The content is, of course, brilliant and illuminating. The performance by the reedy-voices main narrator made it difficult for me to focus for long stretches of time. The narrator’s voice is not unpleasant, rather, it sounds rather as if he rendered the entire book as a long poem. For me, this rendered the already abstract content even more abstract and I found myself listen to sections again and again to deconstruct the phrasing. It is beautifully read, to be sure, but perhaps a less poetic reading would have made the content more readily digestible.

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