Babbitt

De: Sinclair Lewis

Narrado por: John Michaels

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out, he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response.

Male menopause wasn’t a pre-Great Depression term, but you could say George has all the symptoms. At a pudgy, balding 46, he looks at his life, wife, family, and business. He sees himself as a pretty successful business man, but when Tanis, the lonely widow, has a leaky roof, he sees an opportunity for perhaps a more fulfilling relationship then he has at home. Add to Tanis a foray into radical politics, and we are about to witness an emotional and financial train wreck with Babbitt at the throttle.

Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti

LOL so many mistakes

The reader has a great voice and love his style, but the audiobook is totally littered with either wrongly pronounced words or the wrong word entirely. That said, it's still very enjpyable.

muddled narration

I have loved Babbitt since I first read it in junior high school. It's one of two books that I re-read nearly every year. Why it pleases me so, why it entices me to read it again and again, I cant answer; but it does.

To say I was disappointed with this narration is a GROSS understatement. I won't take issue with the timbre or quality of the voice, but I take GREAT issue with the stumbling mispronunciations of common words. After a few chapters, it became a little mind game for me as I listened - what on earth had the narrator just said? Stop, repeat, listen; stop, repeat, listen once more. In the context of a sentence, I was usually able to figure out what word or phrase the reader was attempting, but I confess, there were several occasions when I was completely stumped. Twice, I went to the physical book to play hide and seek with a sentence. Does no one ever listen to the recordings before they're released? Is there no such entity as a proof-listener?

Cutting to the chase - I couldn't finish listening. Great story; lousy reader. If you want to give Babbitt a try, buy the book!