L Lester

Jane Goodall is a World Treasure

Revisado: 10-08-24

The story Jane tells and her message of hope are inspiring and compelling. Her sweet and gently energetic voice convey both her wisdom and depth. Jarring, however, is the interviewer, who interrupts this beautiful narrative with interjections of his own uninteresting opinions. Worse, however, is his voice. I double checked the description at first because he sounds just like AI. No kidding. Mechanical and impersonal voice; and almost as an insult, he interrupts sweet Jane's stories with a loud "she said" truly in the middle of her sentences. That may have worked on paper, but on audio it is truly horrible. Worth a read maybe but skip the audio unless you can figure out how to only hear Jane Goodall. She is a world treasure.

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Yawwwwwwnnnnn

Revisado: 08-15-24

Ill brave through most literature, but wow! This was just incredibly boring and trite. And the reader's clipped and sardonic whilst being saccharin sweet, style made it unbearable. Almost made it to the end, but then i said "life is too short and there are too many great books to suffer through this".

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Lovely but boring

Revisado: 03-19-24

The performed partially redeemed a very weak plot. The characters were less than interesting and by the end you wish they would all just disappear. The book lead June likes something big going to happen but it never does.

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Decent story but tedious

Revisado: 03-02-24

Started out interesting, but became tedious and tiresome the longer it went. Kind of depressing. Reader was pretty good. Wish I could get my credit back.

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A great Victorian novel

Revisado: 09-04-23

This is a great novel by a wonderful author. I enjoyed it immensely, mainly because of the excellent performance by Juliet Stevenson. I have started selecting audiobooks with her name in the Search rather than an author, as I know they will be enjoyable to hear.

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Exemplary Performance!

Revisado: 08-17-23

The performance of an audiobook is so important. Recently, I have listened to some wonderful stories unfortunately performed by readers who seemed very disengaged and uninterested. Let me contrast that with the narration of Juliet Stevenson. Her voice, accents, nuances, and engagement in this story left me feeling as though I had just witnessed a play with many different actors. You begin to recognize a character the moment she begins speaking, forgetting totally that it is one person. And, of course, this story, North and South, has all of the pastoral drama of any of Jane Austen’s most popular works. Elizabeth Gaskell was an incredibly gifted author, who shared glimpses of 1850’s industrial England with the gratuitous clash of the classes, yet personal and heartfelt, and engaging. Highly recommend

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Poor narration

Revisado: 08-10-23

This is a newly discovered Thomas Hardy book, as I thought I had read them all. It is not Hardy at his best, but is a very nice story. However, the narration is truly awful. At first, I stopped listening, because I thought it was some kind of computer reading the story. Later, I picked it back up and got into the story enough to make it through to the end. But truly, this reader ruined it. How do people like that get these jobs?

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Wait, no murder?

Revisado: 08-01-23

Like many people, I am a Joan Crawford fan and have watched this movie many times. I also watched the Kate Winslet version, not nearly as good. Just now listened to the original story, which was truly enjoyable. No wonder it’s a classic. However, I kept wondering when the murder would happen. It never did! I guess it’s creative license… anyway, the reader does an excellent job. I’m pretty picky about this, but Christine Williams does an excellent job of portraying many characters, and also the mood for each scene. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Always a good read

Revisado: 02-10-23

The Patrick O’Brien novels are pure joy to read. This audiobook read by Patrick Tull was so enjoyable. I’m in the process of reading all of them, by that I mean listening to the Audiobooks, and I always make sure that Patrick Tull is the reader.

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Discouraging

Revisado: 02-05-23

I found this book, while no doubt well researched and skillfully written, discouraging from a Christian point of view. I don’t want to know why every single detail of the history of Israel and of Jesus isn’t plausible or even probable. I get it. Detail by detail is gleefully disputed. But it can’t possibly be encouraging to Christians or Jews. it may be endorsing to non believers. I listened to the entire book and the reader us great. Just felt it was discouraging to my faith and belief system.

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