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E. Aguilar

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Good book, terrible reading

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
1 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-15-21

This is an example of how reliant audiobooks are on a competent performance. While i can forgive the narrator, Rainy Fields, for being tripped up by the many algonquin names, i found her generally halting and arduously enunciated reading difficult to listen to. Her frequent pauses, apparently neither for emphasis, nor for punctuation, made otherwise simple sentences difficult to follow. Every sentence sounded like she was reading it aloud for the very first time, and made me long for the printed page. I strongly suggest re-recording this with a more fluent reader.

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This audiobook was not edited for accuracy

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
1 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-20-20

This is an important and thought-provoking text that made me reevaluate my understanding of the 17th and 18th centuries in the New World European colonies. That is why it is all the more disappointing that the audiobook performance is so packed with verbal flubs and confident mispronunciations (e.g. “recalitrant” for recalcitrant, “epitet” for epithet, “deloozed” for deluged, etc.). I heard errors on almost every page, and thats not counting potential departures from the text that I would’ve been unaware of without a hard copy in hand. The sloppy reading does a lot of injury to the author’s eloquent writing. This audiobook recording does not seem to have been edited for quality and accuracy of the reading. I would suggest that the problem sections be re-recorded, but they are so numerous, I’m not sure if it’s practical. Probably best to just buy the physical book elsewhere.

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