Many Waters

De: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee

A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land.

If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and time travel.

If only the Murry twins had noticed the note on the door of their mother's lab: Experiment In Progress. Please Keep Out.

But it's too late for regrets.

There's a strange-and very small-person approaching, with a miniature mammoth in tow...At last it's Sandy and Dennys's turn for an adventure-an adventure that turns serious when they discover that "many waters" are coming to flood the desert.

The twins must find a way back home soon, or they will drown. But how will they get back to their own time? Can they?

©2007 Madeleine L'Engle (P)2007 Listening Library

Loved the book, not the narrator

I love this series from Madeleine L'Engle and I've read Many Waters a number of times. In listening to it, I found that it is a better book read than heard. I'm not sure if that came from the narration or if the book really was more simplistically written than Wrinkle In Time series featuring Meg and Charles Wallace.

I have listened to the other older books in this series and found them to be as good as I remember the written novels. The narrator was wonderful with different voices for different characters and really drawing me into the book. I found the narrator for this book to be very hard to listen to. Her words were overly enunciated to the point of being distracting and there was very little nuance in her voice or how she spoke the characters or situations. It was clear to me that she was "reading a book" rather than "telling a story" which tends (for me) to be the best part of the audio book. I would actually go out of my way not to listen to a book with this narrator.

That being said, I love this story and was overall disappointed in the performance.

A Nice Surprise

I wasn't familiar with the store. I thoroughly enjoyed it. A good read, a comfort during these crazy times.

A new spin on an old Bible story

what would it be like to travel back through time to the days of Noah? An adventure that defies time and space. An interesting mixture of science and faith.

Crazy book

I don't like the narrator her voice is so weird , there's no difference in her voice but the book is good.

amazing

I must admit that when I read the synopsis of this book, I was skeptical. But it is so well done that the book takes a premise that I really thought would be rather silly, and makes it actually quite fun. Admittedly, the premise is still rather silly... but the writing is so good... that it actually works. The performance is unbelievably good. I highly recommend it.

Listened with my daughters

Ann Marie Lee did a fantastic job of changing her voice to mat h characters! Such a pleasant voice and a great story! It gave us something pleasant to listen to in the car for our long commute.

Best Story, Mediocre Recording

Of the first 4 Time Quintet books I've listened to, this one has the most elaborate and interesting story, but the quality of the recording is very poor. I wish they'd clean it up or redo it. it sounds like it was recorded on an old fashioned every day hand held tape recorder. (Do people even still have those anymore?) All the other books in this grouping have crisp, clean recordings that sound like they're dinne in a modern recording studio. including the next book, An Acceptable Time read by the same narrator as this.

Good book

I remember these books from when I was in elementary school. I enjoyed them then, but this narrator was not as enjoyable. I felt as though there was not a difference in her voice from character to character.

Amazing read!

I absolutely love the historical aspect twisted in with fiction. To be honest at first I was disappointed Charles Wallace wasn't in this one however it turned out to be very intriguing and well written!

Story was great but chapters are wrong

What did you love best about Many Waters?

I enjoyed the twist on the Biblical story of the flood.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked how the twins, Sandy and Dennis, finally had the spotlight on them after 3 books of them being just the twins. I liked the mix of the flood story as told in the Bible and science.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I wish that she had done different voices for Sandy and Dennis. Sometimes when they were talking to one another, I couldn't tell who said what because she didn't do anything different for their voices.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Science and the flood mix.

Any additional comments?

The audiobook said it was 7 chapters, but there would be 2 "book" chapters in one audiobook chapter. It was a pain to figure out how much longer there was left in a "book" chapter.