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Bad Men

By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Hayward Morse
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Summary

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree.

But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.

©2003 John Connolly (P)2003 ISIS Publishing Ltd

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Where’s Jeff Harding??

I bought this some time ago, and while it’s what you’d expect from John Connolly- a great story, it’s completely ruined by the narrator. Why oh why isn’t it read by Jeff Harding so that it can actually be enjoyed?

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One of the best, but....

This is actually one of the best Connolly books but the narrator ruins the experience. Actually the narrator is quite good in his own voice but when he puts voices to the characters he makes them sound stupid goofy, like evil children and all the woman sounds like sleasy hookers or posh english woman. Not good but the story is great.

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Great book, terrible "performance"

This is one of my favourite John Connolly books. Great book, great story that I've read a number of times. While general naration is fine, the voices used by the narrator for the main character Joe and pretty much all the female characters ate terrible, really really terrible.

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Surprise

I did enjoy the story, I have read many from the Charlie Parker series. However I felt that some of the voices used by the reader were a little off line. Overall another well researched and well written story

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Bad narrator

Should be re-recorded by Jeff Harding
Good story narrator doesn’t do it justice overall good story even a pop in by Parker

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Horrendous Narrator

I’ve read this book before and was excited to listen to the audio book. What I wasn’t prepared for was the terrible narration. The characters accents weren’t even consistent, they changed. This book needs to be re-recorded with a proper narrator.

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Different…

Having read the numerous adverse reviews of the narrator of this book I braced myself… and it wasn’t great. Officer Dupree was made to sound like a village idiot, and Officer Macey given a slow semi-English accent that just didn’t gel with her personality. The rest of the cast (poor souls) suffered equal indignities.
But enough of that - the book was OK, complete with a passing reference to Charle Parker of course.
I do agree with others that it should be re-recorded with Jeff Harding as narrator in order to rescue the title.

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Great book, awful narration.

I Have listened to hundreds of audio books including many John Connolly novels and I can honestly say Hayward Morse is by far the worst voice actor I have ever come across. The plot is really good with well written characters, but the terrible character voices detract from the overall product. If it was re-recorded with a better narrator I’d probably re-buy.

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Embarrassingly bad narration put me off

I really enjoy John Connolly’s books and was looking forwards to this one. All the others I have heard on Audible have been narrated by the excellent Jeff Harding. I’m less than an hour into “Bad Men” and that’s enough for me. The accents are so bizarrely overdone and, in some cases undifferentiated between characters that they are actually comedic. It’s like a bad joke. This was a huge disappointment and a waste of money. It’s actually put me off reading the book because I won’t be able to get the risible voice characterisations out of my head. What was the publisher, let alone the author, thinking to let this go out?

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Disappointed John

I personally think that you are now bored of writing?
I loved your books, but now I get the impression that your heart isn't with it anymore?
And why pick on Penelope Cruise? that's very personal and I'm not impressed with the references.

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