Clearly, these haven't bothered other listeners, but this one found that they severely impeded his ability to suspend disbelief. In addition, every time I was getting into it, I found myself shaken out by jarring inaccuracies of language or geographical detail. The pace is leisurely and while the depiction of the pettiness of academic life is mildly amusing, the early parts of the story failed to grip.
The story itself takes a while to get going but, if you stick with it, finally becomes both memorable and painfully moving. There's also a passage of a few paragraphs which gets repeated in the first section of the download, an indication of a lower standard of audio production than in most recent Audible recordings. This listener found Jenny Sterlin's voice flat and uninteresting, which was a drawback for such a long book.
0 kommentar(er)
