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Intellectual Action!

Revisado: 06-25-23

This book is full of thinking, wondering, figuring out, much more thrilling to read than people killing one another. The Narrator, Daniel Thomas May, is superb and makes the thinking even more interesting and exciting.

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Better read than listened to

Revisado: 01-30-23

The Chief and Jean-Guy go to an isolated monastery to solve a murder. The 24 (well, now 23) monks are devoted to Gregorian Chant and the story is full of how divinely beautiful their music is. However, the narrator has the opposite of a divine voice: he drones, and drones, and drones. Some attempt at accent, no attempt at conveying the story with nuanced reading. So read the book and hear it in your imagination.

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.Andy Serkis reads well, sings terribly

Revisado: 09-25-21

Rob Inglis, the old Recorded Books LOTR reader, sings very nicely the many songs in the text, enhancing the listener’s enjoyment.
For some reason, the producer of this new Recorded Books LOTR thought that Andy Serkis should sing the poems. He is a brilliant actor and reader, but his singing is painful to listen to and really detracts from my enjoyment of the recording.

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What stories!

Revisado: 08-31-21

Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien’s son and literary executor, has spent years compiling the history of Middle Earth from his father’s pages and pages of manuscripts. With academic precision, Christopher has assembled the stories in this book that complement the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion. And Samuel West as the stories’ narrator is superb, as sensitive a reader as Tolkien pater was a story teller. The producer, to amuse us, has Samuel’s father Timothy reading Christopher’s editorial notes, making this audio production a double father/son affair.

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Couldn’t finish

Revisado: 03-14-21

The protagonist is so stupid and weak that it is painful for me to listen. I’m disappointed because Kobna Holdbrook-Smith does a very good reading and Adjoa Andoh, my favorite, reads books 2 and 3. Oh well

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good story if you can tolerate the reader

Revisado: 03-09-21

The reader does not perform with comprehension nor is she a good actress. The story is good, but reading the book rather than listening would be better.

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Be patient, like the stone

Revisado: 03-08-21

This book has a long, long development to a satisfying conclusion. The various narratives interplay effectively. The story is not sappy.

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OMG. Andy Serkis!

Revisado: 12-25-20

Andy channelling Richard Armitage makes this recording worthwhile by itself, but Andy reads with utter understanding and enthusiasm. The Rob Inglis recording is already excellent, but this one is the best.

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Wish a different company made the recording

Revisado: 07-20-19

I enjoy the story, having read it several times. It deserves a much better reader.

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One of my favorites

Revisado: 09-26-17

The Chanur books by C J Cherryh are ones I have read more than a few times. I thought I would enjoy listening to them, and indeed the stories are as interesting, the characters as well developed as I remember, but the narrator leaves much to be desired. She lacks preparation, her characterization voices are much the same for different characters within species or with stereotypical earthly accents for aliens, and she mispronounces words, most egregiously the name Skkukuk, which she turns into a confusing homonym with Sikkukkut, two different characters. I suggest listening to these books only after reading them because of this narrator’s performance.

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