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The narration could have been satisfying… However.

Revisado: 07-08-24

The narration could have been very satisfying. Simply reading this Dickens novel would have been wonderful, because the narrator, Jonathan Price, a great actor, has an excellent voice. However, like far too many narrators, he was directed to force a “characterization” on each of the individuals. In each voice there emitted the same shrill voice, the voice of an individual in the throes of passing painful kidney stones. Novels were written as novels, they were written to be read as one reads any novel, not to be performed like a hapless vaudeville stage comedy… Jonathan shame on you. Perhaps visit an urologist.

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The overall story is good . . . But the narration.

Revisado: 01-05-24

The overall story is good . . . But the narration is badly disrupted by the narrator imitating the accents of the various members of Shackleton’s crew. I found this habit very annoying. Subsequently, I found this purchase to be a waste of one credit.

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A reaonaby good story

Revisado: 01-16-23

The overall story is fairly good, but I’m wondering about this writer’s ethics. In chapter 14 he recounts with glee advising a pilot to vacation in Africa, but purposely sending the poor man on an arduous nightmare. And again he did the same, sending newlyweds to an agonizing trip to India. The writer seems to luxuriate in describing his rather pointlessly spiteful sense of humor for no purpose.

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Robert Garland is a Superb Narrator

Revisado: 11-21-22

Robert Garland is a Superb Narrator of his book - of all his books. As we listen, we pierce the general fog of all the disparate facts to which we’ve been a passing audience through our lives through grade school, high school, and college. A terrific historian and narrator.

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A wonderfully narrated classic.

Revisado: 10-30-22

One of the very few Audible English classic novels intelligently narrated. The narration of this Jane Eyre is unmarked by the foolish approximations of “voicing” marring most of the Audible recordings. Audible renders most classics, British, American, European, or otherwise, with a myriad of absurd, miserable accents. Audible has forgotten that each author of the many classics was intended to be read, not play-acted, as though on stage. These fine classics should be read and only read by each narrator. Not acted with characterizations of each character’s supposed accent, most of which are ruined by narrators who sound like they are passing kidney stones. But they don’t learn, do they . . .

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An Absurdly Overblown Analysis

Revisado: 09-14-22

The subject topic has always been fascinating. Yet, this writer has an overblown, wordy style - his intention is to fill page after page with words well beyond their need. A waste of time. A bloated piece of garbage.

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The Evil CCP . . .

Revisado: 07-29-22

Peter Navarro writes a superb, clear overview of what China is and intends for the current and future of our entire globe - Total Dominance. Readers will understand the vicious, bleak reality of what the CCP intends for all of America. We are to become China's slave labor camp . . .

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Very Badly Narrated

Revisado: 06-02-22

The culture of redefining the authors original work through excessive narrator interpretation is again at play here and in too many novels narrated these days. It is for the reader to make such interpretation - not the narrater.

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A Genuine Narration of Determination and Loss

Revisado: 05-16-22

Ryan O'Neal has narrated his story of family, determination, and loss. He survives the loss of his first and “third” wife. His determination to be a husband and father to his four children and loss of his third wife, Farrah Fawcett, through cancer is narrated with genuine feeling. Mr. O’Neal has done an excellent narration. We feel his exhaustion through the addictions of his children and his grief missing the life he lived with Farrah Fawcett. “Rest after toil; Death after life,” Joseph Conrad.

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Superb Historian and a Superb Narrator . . .

Revisado: 04-10-21

Robert Garland is a most interesting historian - and narrator. I deeply enjoyed his narration. His well-balanced conservative view of life is eloquently interspersed throughout this history.

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