
The Shuttle
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Tabi That
About this listen
The narration is reasonable, but very fast (I had to slow it down to 0.8 playback speed to make it tolerable) and the narrator clearly has no understanding that ingenious and ingenuous are two completely different words with very different meanings. She consistently says ingenious when she should say ingenuous and this makes no sense whatsoever in the context. For instance, we are told in almost the same sentence that one of the characters is both slow witted and 'ingenious', when she is, in fact, slow witted and ingenuous. Therefore, when listening to this book I find myself mentally editing it, as unfortunately 'ingenuous' is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's favourite words.
I would really like to hear this book read by a better narrator (Juliet Stevenson would be my choice), but as, at the time of writing, this is currently the only version available on Audible, it is better than nothing.
The last point that needs to be mentioned is that the recording quality is very poor. At some point near the beginning voices can be heard mumbling in the background, and a few hours into the book birds can clearly be heard chirping in the background. This goes on for a long time. This book doesn't sound as if this was recorded in a studio but in someone's garden or summerhouse. It is not of a professional recording quality, so this too needs to be borne in mind when considering purchasing this audiobook.
Fast narration, recording quality low
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Enchanting
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The Shuttle
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