The horribly boring voice of Russell Bentley

Story was very interesting idea but not Ken Follett’s best. Mind you it was written many years ago

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This book needs to be a film.

Amazing story. Read it a year ago, listened to it recently because I’ve become so interested in Ken Follett and his interest in Cathedrals! There is so much in this story. The plane itself would make an amazing backdrop to any story. But the way the author strings the characters together is fantastic. Please make this in to a film!

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Great story, good character development

i loved all the characters.
it felt like dipping into a bygone age of luxury as it encounters the rougher edges of life.

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excellent

So many twists and turns Excellent plot, narrator was excellent and brought the characters to life, pure escapism.

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Good story diabolical narration

This was infuriating. The story and characters are a lot of fun - sort of orient express meets downton abbey beneath the shadow of war; romance and gangsters; might ‘die tomorrow so may as well sex’ in confined spaces.... But the awful narration was an insult to both listener and the poor author: like a cross between Thomas the tank engine and some awful vicar reading the bible; almost ever sentence read with a gap, then downward inflection (a full drop at the end as I came to think of it). Example of how little attention this lazy man gave to what he was actually reading was someone remarking ‘tonelessly’ with great animation and I could swear the characters were swapping accents. I ended up surviving the experience by mentally following the narration in my head and reinterpreting it as the words would have appeared on the page. Really do not know how anyone let this through the net. My advice - read the book and avoid this reader like the plague. (Oh and the characters, as depicted, were like cartoons - wildly ott accents that shredded the dialogue - so, maybe Thomas the tank meets chipper cartoon Americans and posh English people).

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Great story

Really enjoyed the story but found the stilted reading style quite irritating. His accents were good though and a lot of readers can't do them.

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More gratuitous sex!

Unnecessary and overly explicit sex scene. Why does Ken Follett feel the need to be so graphic? It’s like he’s been denied it for years and has spent his time reading smutty magazines! Other than that the story was great with a fabulous twist at the end.

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Clever Plot

Range of interesting characters whose lives become surprisingly entwined. Ken Follet never fails to deliver.

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Great job Mr Follett!

I thought that the narration was excellent. I couldn't fault it. I didn't want to put the book down. I couldn't wait to see how the story unfolded.

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decent story, awful narrator

Narrator's voice dropped octave at the end of every single sentence. Very distracting. Otherwise the story was ok.

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