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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,745
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,079
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,076
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Gasping for Air
- De Jean Engle en 04-19-23
- The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
Narrator is too dramatic
Revisado: 05-10-23
It’s a compelling and interesting story, but the narrator’s continuously over-dramatic performance tends to backfire. He even attempts to make the chapter name and number sound ominous.
By dramatizing nearly every line in the book, the listener will have trouble discerning which lines deserve a bit more emphasis and which don’t. Why over-dramatize and attempt to make suspenseful, a phrase like, “Chapter Eleven”?
This over-dramatic cadence persists throughout nearly every line of the book, making the murder of a castaway seem no more important than the announcement of the next chapter.
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