Kylie

The main character was an idiotic 16 year old boy

Revisado: 07-17-24

This one could have been excellent if the main character had been a bit older and a bit less stupid. As it is, it makes absolutely no sense that the old detective inspector decides to recruit a 16 year old boy to help him interview suspects and solve the crime. And the 16 year old boy gets everything completely wrong, constantly accuses the wrong people, but then at the end gets praised by everyone for doing his best. It was hugely frustrating. I would have enjoyed the setting and the story if the main character had been anyone else. As it is there’s no way I’m going to read any more of the series.

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Boring and terrible narrator

Revisado: 05-15-23

I generally love Victorian ghost stories, but whether it was that this collection was generally dull, or just that the narrator made them dull, I listened to this on double speed just to get through it.

The narrator said everything in exactly the same tone of voice throughout, so that I struggled to pay attention and was thoroughly bored. I would make a point to never buy a book with this same narrator again.

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Can’t tell if I didn’t like the book as much or if it was just the terrible narration

Revisado: 03-08-23

The last two books in this series have been narrated by Lesley Manville, who was brilliant. For some reason this book was narrated by Fiona Shaw, who was dreadful. Why was she whispering half the time??? Why did all the characters sound exactly the same??? The narration was so bad that it coloured the whole book for me. I couldn’t tell if I didn’t enjoy the book as much or if it was just the narrator ruining it. I sincerely hope they get Lesley Manville back for book 4. If it’s Fiona Shaw again I won’t be buying it.

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OK story but terrible narrator

Revisado: 05-23-22

The early Discworld novels were still finding their feet, and Equal Rites falls into this category. It's a meandering story that loses its point a little, but is still full of fantastic characters and Pratchett's signature brand of creativity and fun.

But where this really fell apart for me was in having Indira Varma as the narrator. I have been eagerly awaiting the re-release of all the Discworld audiobooks, but I was so so disappointed with this. Indira Varma does not, in any way, differentiate between the voices of all the different characters, or even the voices of the characters and the voice of the narrator. I was regularly unsure of whether it was a character or the narrator talking because she read them all in exactly the same way.

The key to a fantastic audiobook is finding a narrator who can give each character an individual voice, so you can tell who is talking without being told. Indira Varma's way of acting Esk was to say all of her lines in a flat monotone. It was so boring to listen to that I ended up speeding it up to double speed to get it over and done with. I will not be buying any of the other books narrated by her. I am so disappointed.

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Good story but poor narration

Revisado: 01-03-22

I really like an audiobook to be performed, rather than just read aloud. Sian Clifford had a good storytelling voice, but a lot of the characters sounded the same and it was a very nursery read along voice, rather than a performance.

I liked Peter Serafinowicz as Death, but the weird jingling noise for the footnotes was really jarring and didn’t work at all. I like that they’ve kept the footnotes in, but there needs to be a better way of putting them in the story.

This is the first of Penguin’s re-recording of the Discworld series, and I was really looking forward to it. This was a disappointing start, especially as they have replaced the Nigel Planer recording so it’s this or nothing. I think I’ll get the Nigel Planer versions just in case. Hopefully the next instalment is better performed.

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Great story, good voice acting

Revisado: 05-10-21

I loved this story - Agatha Christie at her best. The characters were what made this story - I forgot how genuinely laugh out loud funny her writing is, and this story is a classic of village life with such brilliant characters and biting observational wit.

The voice acting was pretty good - he didn’t do a good job of women’s voices, so the old ladies sounded more like gruff old men, but he did at least differentiate between all the different voices and that was the important thing.

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Disappointingly bad and never funny

Revisado: 05-16-19

I love Kate McKinnon and I was really hoping this would be as funny and satirical as it was promoted to be.
Spoiler - it wasn’t. I’ll admit, it probably isn’t my kind of humour, but even so I thought Heads Will Roll was poor.
The humour throughout was entirely based on two things: toilet humour (ie fart jokes) and anachronisms (isn’t it so hilarious that this is set in the Middle Ages but we’re talking about memory foam mattresses!!!).
There was no sophistication about the humour - most people grew out of toilet humour after second grade. And the anachronistic humour is an obvious gag that can get a laugh once or twice but doesn’t sustain over 10 episodes. It’s just the same joke over and over again. The humour is never clever, and the language was irritatingly tacky throughout. The characters, like, totally talked, like, you know, the most stereotypical, you know, and annoying, like, teenagers ever, you know, you guys?
I was so disappointed with this - it was immature, it constantly took the easy and obvious way out and never tried to live up to its potential.

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Great performance from full cast, not a great story

Revisado: 07-15-15

Gemma narrated the story really well, and there was a great cast of characters. However the actual story was not all that interesting. Audrey's character had good potential, and the authors descriptions of what it is like to suffer from anxiety and depression were accurate, but that made Audrey's sudden and abrupt recovery as soon as she meets Linus all the more unrealistic. It made the reality of what Audrey suffered very trivial, and that was disappointing. There wasn't a lot of conflict and ultimately the story felt contrived and unbelievable.

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Good period drama

Revisado: 07-11-15

I enjoyed the various characters and the treasure hunt with letters. It was a very fanciful historic romance, but a good read (listen) and Tracy Rees was a good narrator. Good comfort reading!

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Great story, perfectly narrated

Revisado: 07-08-15

I can't recommend this highly enough. A beautiful story about the relationships between white families and their help in the 60s in Mississippi. Beautifully narrated by a wonderful cast. You won't regret buying this.

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