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Good book, marred by mispronunciations

Revisado: 12-24-16

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This is an engaging book that provides a wide-ranging introduction to the problems of water in South Asia (and I very much appreciate that by "South Asia," the author does not only mean India!) However, the listening experience is marred by the fact that the narrator has no idea how to pronounce names of people and places included in the text. Pronunciations are inconsistent, awkward, and sometimes laughably bad. Audible should have hired someone familiar with South Asian languages to coach the narrator or perhaps gone with a different narrator altogether.

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A great book, but the music is annoying

Revisado: 02-11-15

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I really love this book. In the audio version, the use of multiple narrators works well to communicate the different characters' viewpoints. My one complaint is about the hymns of the God's Gardeners cult (there are 8 or 10 of them included throughout the story). The music to which they've been set is very cheesy and doesn't reflect the mood of the Gardeners very well, in my opinion. I would have preferred if the hymns had just been spoken rather than set to music. Anyway, that's a small complaint, and others may not find it to be so jarring. And the story is definitely worth a listen!

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Annoying music

Revisado: 07-18-13

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I'm not planning to listen to this again. I've read the book before and like the story very much, but it was interrupted by strange music at inopportune moments. A great book, but not a very good listening experience.

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