Tennis Apprentice

Brilliantly told story

Revisado: 02-21-25

Outstanding narration of a brilliantly written story. One of my favourite audiobooks yet…if you like adventure and survival yarns…this one is for you!

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An incredible story, well told

Revisado: 12-07-24

First the story. Inspiring and astonishing as many have said. The writing is strong and even the interwoven stories of the writer and the main character Eugene Moran are handled well. I found the writer relatable and he handled the subject matter with sensitivity. Then the narrator; the positives are that he has good intonation and conveys emotions well. He has a pleasant voice and can moderate it all for different characters. Unfortunately, as many have said he really needs to work on his pronunciation and elocution. All sorts of words get mangled and it is puzzling given he is so accomplished in the other areas. One could understand exotic place names being mispronounced, but even a word like “plagued” becomes something that sounds like “plugged”. He seems to be a good voiceover artist so with some attention to this he could be more polished.

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Outstanding…our world needs a spine

Revisado: 02-18-23

Listening to Chuck’s story I couldn’t help lamenting what a pathetic generation I live in. People like Chuck and his contemporaries - men and women alike - endured so much hardship and still found it in themselves to have a ball, and here we are in the most spoilt and Molly coddled living environment ever and people are at outraged and at each other’s throats for the most trivial and absurd reasons. Frankly, people are bored. What an exciting life Yeager lived and I found he was human and modest enough to admit that he had a whole lot of good fortune to go with his incredible pilot expertise. A fantastic way to spend a few hours…thank you!

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Brilliant narration and fabulous anecdotes

Revisado: 07-29-21

Having listened to a lot of audio books I have suffered through some good content badly narrated. This is not one of those, the narrator does an exceptional job in my opinion, his pronunciation of non English names is outstanding, his cadence and intonation really do the text justice.

As to the text, it is substantial, and very well structured. I didn’t always appreciate the obvious obsession with evolutionary principles, almost to a doctrinal level, it seemed a bit over the top - almost like a fundamentalist preacher about evolution and atheism. However I think the author handles the subject of mastery very adeptly, and for anyone intent on mastering their craft, this is well worth a listen. For the richness of the biographical accounts alone, it is time very well spent.

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Odd narration practice

Revisado: 05-17-21

I am enjoying the content of this book and it seems to be valuable and on point. However the narrator’s practice of altering her voice to sound deeper and gruffer when quoting men is really distracting. Imagine if a male narrator put on a higher pitched voice to indicate he was quoting a woman…he’d be labelled sexist! It detracts from the quotes themselves.

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