Hansi

Highly Recommended for Glossophiles!

Revisado: 05-14-22

As a teacher myself, I'm envious of McWhorter's lecturing skills. He manages what to turn what could be dry as dust into a gripping and often hilarious story.

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A decent reader, poorly prepared

Revisado: 03-01-18

Phil Gigante is a great reader, but couldn't some producer have advised him on the pronunciation of Hindustani words? The consistent mispronunciation of Anglo-Indian spellings (e.g. "duffadar") is quite annoying.

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A marvellous collection, beautifully read.

Revisado: 08-21-16

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
My Heart Leaps Up
To a Butterfly
Alice Fell, or Poverty
Lucy Grey, or Solitude
We Are Seven
To HC, 6 yrs. old
Elegiac Stanzas
The Lucy Poems
- Strange fits of passion have I known
- She dwelt among the untrodden ways
- I travelled among unknown men
- Three years she grew in sun and shower
- A slumber did my spirit seal
The Green Linnet
To the Small Celandine
The Seven Sisters
To the Cuckoo
Nutting
She was a Phantom of delight
The Daffodils
The Reverie of Poor Susan
Tintern Abbey
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
To a Young Lady, who had been reproached…
Vernal Ode
Humming Bee
It is a beauteous evening
The world is too much with us
Scorn not the Sonnet
With how sad steps, o Moon
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
Milton
To the Men of Kent
The Solitary Reaper
Yarrow Unvisited
Yarrow Visited
Yarrow Revisited
Lines Written in Early Spring
Ode to Duty
Character of the Happy Warrior
Ode, Composed on May Morning
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Michael
To a Skylark
Selections form the Prelude:
1. Childhood
2. Residence at Cambridge
3. Residence in London
4. Retrospect
5. Imagination and Taste
6. Conclusion
French Revolution
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
Surprised by Joy
Fragment: Redundance
Great men have been among us

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Charming stories, fantastic reader!

Revisado: 02-18-15

For lovers of Bond's gentle humor, this is a delightful collection, the enjoyment of which is further enhanced by Chippy Gangjee's beautiful narration. Rarely is a narrator so audibly amused by his text as Gangjee, who frequently laughs out loud.

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A strange book, an ill-prepared reader

Revisado: 04-22-14

PKD's odd little alternate history reads like a precursor to Pullman's HDM trilogy. Unfortunately, the narrator, in spite of having a German last name, is woefully incompetent at pronouncing even the most obvious words (e.g. "Partei") or names (e.g. Goebbels). The least you could expect from a professional production is for some intern to do five minutes' research to look up the proper pronunciation of a dozen unfamiliar words and names.

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Hammy narrator works hard to enliven dry hard SF.

Revisado: 12-07-13

Chris Patton narrates his heart out in an attempt to breathe some life into Stephen Baxter's mostly dry prose. In consequence, the accents are hilariously over the top -- every Scottish character sounds like Begbie from Trainspotting, and you can practically see Patton wear yellowface when performing the Chinese rocket scientist.

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Interesting but older version of the book

Revisado: 05-08-13

This seems to be a recording of an early edition (entitled "Why England Lose"), so it doesn't include the revisions and additional chapters of more recent versions. Still, it's an interesting book, and the narrator does a great job at imitating foreign accents. Ultimately, the number-crunching may be a bit much for English majors -- those might want to wait for an audiobook version of Franklin Foer's "How Soccer Explains the World."

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In Defence of a Glorious Narrator

Revisado: 06-03-12

What made the experience of listening to The Origin of Species the most enjoyable?

While some of the other reviews show that the narrator is not universally popular, I could listen to David Case (aka Frederick Davidson) read the London phone book. Darwin's prose is notoriously dry, but read by this narrator listening to the Origin of Species is not only intellectually exciting but an aural delight.

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Decent reader, disappointing preparation.

Revisado: 03-20-12

Any additional comments?

It's fair to call Lahiri an American writer; therefore there's nothing wrong with having a non-South Asian American as a narrator. However, I do wish Ms. Novak had done a little more research about the pronunciation of Indian words (Dixit, Laxmi, Lucknow, etc.).

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