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Excellent story, aweful recording

Revisado: 10-26-22

No podía con la mala calidad del audio. El lector tampoco es malo, sino la grabacion.

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I am primarily commenting on the narrator.

Revisado: 09-01-20

The readers diction is indeed precise and careful but a bit nauseating. Words like "deduce" and "produce" come out like "dediEWce" and "prodiEWce" and his character voices are very poor.
If you can get onboard with the reader then the book is worthwhile. Neither extreme review is a good reflection of the work.

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Great book, very poor Latin pronunciation.

Revisado: 11-01-19

This is one of my all time favorite books, and I have listened to it several times despite cringing a couple times a minute at the reader’s missteps over all Latin and some basic English pronunciations. As a bilingual listener familiar with Brazilian place names his accent sounds heavily Chicagoan and his botched Latin pronunciations are distracting, with a lot of mental dialogs like ‘oh he means Tapajós!’ happening throughout. If the reader was much worse I suspect I couldn’t listen at all. But hey, I have listened to this reading a couple times and I do love the book. I would pay a smokin grandy to hear Robertson Dean read this book.

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Disappointing.

Revisado: 12-22-18

While Robertson Dean is a fabulous narrator, this book is written so erratically that you can't follow the story. Then you realize you are following it just fine; it's that there is no story to follow. The author jumps all over the place, summarizes then conjectures, then explained, now backtracks. (Note the mid-sentence tense change? Annoying, right?)

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Patchy narration repairs.

Revisado: 08-13-18

This recording has the most conspicuous narration repairs I have heard in an audiobook. I am surprised this got published. The reader who's voice is patched over in random areas is either a different person or the same person with a bad cold and a low mood. I wanted to enjoy this book but I just couldn't. Go for Dr. Qing Li's original Forrest Bathing book instead.

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Slightly naive.

Revisado: 03-07-18

Would you try another book from Jennifer Ackerman and/or Margaret Strom?

Probably not.

What didn’t you like about Margaret Strom’s performance?

Odd, inconsistent pace. She will heavily enunciate a particular word then pause (05:48 'asked', 13:49 'hole') apparently to further emphasize the word. Unfortunately she will follow these pauses with a more normal cadence, so if you speed up the playback the pace becomes pretty jerky.

Any additional comments?

The author takes a scientific tone but unfortunately betrays an emotional motivation. In admonishing the reader to consider the possibility that birds may be more intelligent than we has assumed the author does not hesitate to assert other animal's stupidity as a forgone conclusion. Furthermore the author makes several bizarre inferences about the 'humanness' of a left-to-right numerical orientation that flatly ignores over six hundred million people who speak right-to-left languages.
Together these oddities make for a emotionally biased praise for birds - which is unfortunate since birds are fully capable of shining just as they are.

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Labored whispering

Revisado: 01-31-18

Would you try another book from Michael Crichton and/or Scott Brick?

I love Michael Crichton's work. But this narrator is awful. He sounds like he is insecure with his ability to read and doesn't want to be overheard by his mother in the other room.

Would you be willing to try another one of Scott Brick’s performances?

Curse the thought with the bone-searing fires of the nether hells.

Any additional comments?

Voice actors, please speak aloud. I can enjoy most voices that are spoken, but I cannot persevere through whispering.

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