Kevin Donville

Unintelligible, Boring, Narrator Ruins Book

Revisado: 02-04-25

The narrator speaks in an odd fashion that is sort of lime a monotone dirge with oddly mispronounced vowels that make this book a deary mess. It's as if a poorly designed AI voiced the AI but has no concept of inflection, pacing, or diction is reading it. The experience is so bad I'm just going to buy the book and read it manually. Shameful that Dr. Tyson's work is so depressingly and unimaginatively presented.

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dark and a little far fetched.

Revisado: 07-07-24

not the best of Clancy's work but enjoyable. formulate and predictable. at times the characters are unassuming and unnecessary. the entire US based manhunt is boring.

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I hate this series

Revisado: 02-18-23

I know I am in the minority, but I hate these books. I've done the first three and only (marginally) enjoyed "Dune", the first book. It is unrelentingly and unnecessarily complicated with opaque language that is incomprehensible in its poetic format and pseudo-metaphysical double-speak.

Don't waste your time. This book, and the preceding "Children of Dune" is an agonizing exercise in complex themes for their own sake and an embracing of depressing themes in order to mask a totally unenjoyable story.

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Gibberish. Incomprehensible. Pretentious.

Revisado: 12-09-22

Herbert's book is hard enough to enjoy but listening to this painfully inept attempt to bring it to life is excruciating. As much as I deeply wanted to love it, I was frustrated by the editing choices, the inconsistent characterizations, and the stilted language that feels more affective than effective.

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A Train-wreck of Merged Recordings and Actors

Revisado: 10-30-22

Who edited this monstrosity? Different actors doing the same part with different accents.

Horrible

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Out standing

Revisado: 05-15-20

Classic novel so much wit and intelligence. I listen to this hoping it would be as enjoyable as reading the book. I was not disappointed. The narrator was one of the voices from the original BBC production on television. He understood the new aunts, timing, and comedic intent perfectly.

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Almost flawless - better than the films at times

Revisado: 02-20-20

Exceptional. A brilliant adaptation that remains remarkably true to the original texts while creating a vivid oration filled with action and suspense.

I also have this on a CD box set, which I prefer as it doesn't use the flashback narration. Hearing Frodo speaking from present day detracts from the story, I feel, as it reminds you how it all turns out in the end, negating the hard fought suspense and emotional buy-in the cast had only moments before, achieved.

There is also a bit too much exposition from time to time; burying the listener is painfully complex dialogue with terms in Elvish, Dwarvish and Orcish but never translated. While the texts did this as well, it doesn't translate as smoothly to an audio book as it does a manuscript.

Ian Holm is outstanding as Frodo and brings a maturity to the character that existed in the original texts, but I feel was lost in the (otherwise stellar) motion pictures.

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