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Suits me!

If you like a female and British voice for your recorded books, this is perfect. Needless to say, HoD is a major masterpiece, so it hardly requires my approval. A text every reasonably well -read person ought to know.

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This is a review of the narration, very well done

Nicky Whichelow's narration of this book is superb and very fitting for this book. I don't understand why this doesn't have more ratings. I suppose it's pretty hard to compete with the Kenneth Branagh narration, which in my opinion sounds like he is simply reading it for the first time and his pauses for breath are annoying and come at points where he shouldn't be pausing for breath.

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Fast

The book itself is very verbose. I had to slow it down from 100% reading speed to catch it. It's an otherwise very good performance and story.
If you have watched Apocalypse Now this book is its companion.

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  • Sherborn, MA, United States
  • 09-20-16

Its on the bucket list -- Not a fan

This book is on the bucket list. It makes many of the list of top 100 novels to read of all time. For my taste, I didn't care for it. I give it three stars for the descriptive writing. There are a couple of notable quotes, when you hear them you'll know which ones I mean. One thing I disliked was the prologue outlining the whole story! Talk about spoiler. It was like I was to dense to understand what the novel to be about. If you are going to do that, put it at the end.

The narration was choppy and obviously spliced together. Numerous times, the cadence shifted as well as her tone. It was obvious that she narrated this book in parts and over time. I didn't care for that. So, read it because its on the bucket list and its only 3 1/2 hours. If you are going to read it, try a different narrator.

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