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What Cannot Be Said
- Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries, Book 19
- De: C. S. Harris
- Narrado por: Amy Scanlon
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
A seemingly idyllic picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The new reader is a welcome change
- De Hoosiermama en 05-30-24
- What Cannot Be Said
- Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries, Book 19
- De: C. S. Harris
- Narrado por: Amy Scanlon
Returned because of the narration
Revisado: 07-21-24
This has long been one of my favorite Audible series, so I was delighted to see that a new title had been released. I hadn't realized that the narrator was new.
Changing narrators in a series is always risky, though it can work. Unfortunately, this wasn't one of those times. Amy Scanlon has a lovely voice, but it does not have the variation to carry different characters, especially male characters, and her delivery is much too slow. I tried different speeds and found that a custom 1.12 playback worked well for voices, but not for descriptions. In the end, I concluded that the narration itself was too distracting. I returned the audiobook and downloaded the Kindle version -- which I believe a few others have done as well.
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The Tomb of the Chatelaine
- A 1920s Country House Murder Mystery (Heathcliff Lennox, Book 6)
- De: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrado por: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,585
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,427
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,423
A suspicious accident, a dead man's gun and a lost tomb. Strange events disturb the peace of Lanscombe Park, the magnificent country seat of Lord Godolphin Sinclair....
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5 out of 5 stars
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My prediction: Karen Baugh Menuhin’s work will become a classic mystery series
- De JAJ en 09-23-21
- The Tomb of the Chatelaine
- A 1920s Country House Murder Mystery (Heathcliff Lennox, Book 6)
- De: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrado por: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
Fun series, superb narrator
Revisado: 04-17-22
I've run straight through this series -- it's good fun. I don't know what the experience of reading the books would be, but Sam Dewhurst-Phillips is far and away one of the best narrators I've found on Audible. Each voice is distinct, and what is so remarkable is his ability to convey non-verbal cues so well -- sighs, sniffs, throat-clearing, chuckles, even the sound of someone speaking while eating.
I came to Audible just now to tee up the next book in the series (Mystery of Montague Morgan) and am so disappointed that the Audible version is not available, even tho' the print/Kindle version has been out for 5 months. Now I have to scramble to find another series!
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Two Years Before the Mast
- De: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles that affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway), and being something of a nonconformist, left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Historical Account
- De Matt en 05-26-11
- Two Years Before the Mast
- De: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
A wonderful surprise
Revisado: 06-29-21
I have been telling everyone who will listen how much I loved this audiobook.
Two Years is one of those classics I never got around to reading. It is exactly the sort of book that benefits from a first-rate narrator who makes the listening experience perhaps even better than the reading experience. And that's saying a lot for a masterwork that was a bestseller in its time. There are, predictably, some sections that get caught up in the arcana of ship rigging. But Heyborne's voice and acting skill somehow power through them as he conveys the larger emotional experience (e.g. the terror of a storm) and pulls the listener along.
On a whim, I tried a sample by another narrator with a dreadful, pompous, uninflected English accent. Incredibly off-putting. I then happened to click on a sample of Heyborne's narration. His voice is appealing -- an energetic, animated young American, perhaps close to the age of Dana himself when he wrote his masterpiece, who clearly has acting talent. Dana was a Harvard student from a prominent Boston family when he developed vision issues, and determined that a couple of years at sea ("before the mast" meant as an ordinary working sailor) might ease his malady. Amazingly, it worked. He left Boston in 1834 on a voyage around Cape Horn to the California coast, where his ship was involved in the cattle hide trade.
The book is an extraordinary window into the maritime trade and the experience of the sailors themselves (as opposed to captains and shipowners). An unexpected bonus was the epilogue -- the last few chapters recounting Dana's return 25 years later to the same coast. In just over two decades, the relatively barren California coast had exploded, due to the Gold Rush. San Francisco was a thriving city of 150,000. Steam ships connected coastal towns in 2 hours, as opposed to 2 days. Astonishing.
If the subject matter is of any interest, give it a shot! Hats off to Kirby Heyborne.
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