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Tinny echo in recording ruins classic mystery

Revisado: 11-11-23

As a longtime Lord Peter Wimsey fan, I enjoyed this story, but there is a poor quality, tinny echo in the recording that is very grating on the ear.

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Terrible narration of a great story

Revisado: 10-01-23

I read the book years ago and decided to listen to this version, unfortunately, the narrator is A real distraction. Not only is she flat in intonation, much of her French pronunciation is truly awful and even her English pronunciation frequently messes up the correct syllable emphasis. Furthermore, I don’t hear the main characters voice inside my head as congruent at all with the narrator’s voice tone, so listening was a pretty dismal experience.
The story itself is great, possibly one of my favorite of Judith Merkle, Riley’s books (I have read them all).

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Recording is missing a chapter!!

Revisado: 02-07-19

This is a fabulous story and series, and I was so thrilled to read/listen to this new novel, but tragically, when I got to chapter 68 the recording skipped and I missed a whole chapter!! The labeling is at fault here, since the file labeled "chapter 1" is actually the prologue, and then the file labeled "chapter 2" is actually chapter one, and so the numbering of the file is off by 1 from the actual chapter number, all the way up through chapter 68-so-labeled (which is actually chapter 67). Then the file labeled chapter 69 actually is the real chapter 69 - so the recording is missing a critical chapter (the real 68) which contains crucial information in the middle of the story.
There is a way to solve this by downloading the book in sections rather than as a whole (which the tech people walked me through), but that didn't stop me from getting spoilers and having a really confusing time until I figured out what had happened. This is a bug that NEEDS FIXING!! Readers, beware!

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Fabulous books

Revisado: 02-14-12

If you could sum up The Good Husband of Zebra Drive in three words, what would they be?

Entertaining, encouraging, delightful.
Also, very well read/performed.

What about Lisette Lecat’s performance did you like?

Her accents are terrific. And it's nice to know how to pronounce these names which are not familiar to the general American audience.

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Great reading of an intellectual masterpiece

Revisado: 10-24-10

Thought-provoking, image-rich and intricately plotted. This series has had a prized place on my bookshelf for years and I was thrilled to see it available as an audiobook. Even better, Jonathan Davis as narrator has a moderately slow (but not too slow) pace, great voice characterization, and handles the author's challenging and singular vocabular with ease.
Wolfe is subtle, profound writer and demands close attention from his readers/ listeners; this is not a surf-along novel. If your attention is distracted for a minute, you could miss something vital, and need to rewind -- I sometimes have had to do that as I listen. But most of the time I am completely engrossed. This is one of the best finds I've made, ever.
I hope to see more Wolfe audiobooks- beginning with this series' sequel/ continuance, "The Urth of the New Sun".

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Humor on half speed

Revisado: 02-15-09

I love this book; I have a hard copy and have read it four or five times. This reading, however, is so slow that when I turned my iPod to 'fast' play it almost sounded normal! The deliberate, plodding pace completely wrecked all of the humor I so love in this book. I hope audible gets a new reading of this, one a bit more lively.

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Gaiman at his best

Revisado: 11-03-08

I have mixed feelings about Neil Gaiman's children/young adult fiction, but "Graveyard" was a winner. "Coraline" was charming and creepy, but I found "Stardust's" sex scenes plain inappropriate, especially for that genre. (Gaiman's occasional sliding into graphic coarseness is the reason why I avoid his adult fiction altogether.) He is a skilful storyteller, though, and I took a chance on "The Graveyard Book." I was very pleased by both the smoothness of the plot, the enjoyable characterization, and some well paced surprises (one of which at least did take me completely by surprise). And it was genuinely older kid/young adult friendly with no inappropriate scenes in my opinion; the scary bits were handled with tact and discreet detail hinted but not spelled out whenever something violent or scary was occuring. Gaiman's own reading style is one I find delightful and so "Graveyard" is a risk that paid off in full for me.

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"Lives" is well read

Revisado: 11-03-08

I am a fan of Diana Wynne Jones, and I like most of her books. This is vintage Jones at her peak, a charming child/young adult book that I have liked in the print version for a long time. The voice reading in this strikes me as just right- a nice plummy British voice that pronounces things correctly and does not read too slow or too fast for my taste. I am hooked; I want to get more of her books read by Gerard Doyle. (I only hope that they add others that are not in the Chrestomanci series, such as "Howl's Moving Castle," which is my absolute favorite Jones book.)

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