Janet R. Covington

Odd choice of narrator

Revisado: 11-04-21

This book concerns the discovery of DNA by Watson, Crick and the other scientists who worked on the problem. Because all of the events take place in England I was quite surprised that the narrator was an American. On the whole he reads well, but the mispronunciations are jarring. There are certainly oddities in British pronunciation, but either he or an editor should check. When speaking of Grosvenor Square he pronounces it as it looks like it should be pronounced rather than the correct “Grovner”. The same happens with Caius College, which is properly pronounced “keys”. But the strangest of all is his pronunciation of “deoxyribonucleic”, where an “s” is added in the middle of the word . This happens at least twice, but later in the book this word is pronounced correctly. This should have been corrected, since either he or an editor noted the error. This may sound like nit-picking, but these errors interrupted my focus. It’s an interesting book but as an audiobook could have been so much better.

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