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emmalthompson85's review against another edition
3.0
As commented on several times already, the major problem with their work for me is the vocal track. I found it to be flat, and lack energy. I've not come across Turgenev before and I have to say that after this audio reading I would be hesitant to do so again. There's not excitment or joy in it, no variation or tone or interest in the voice, it sounds like someone reading a very boring text they'd rther not be reading and when the reader is board how can I help but feel the same? The accent is also quite strange and I spent a long time trying to work out if it was an English person affecting a Russia accent or a Russian person trying to affect an English accent. The fact that I was contemplating this as he was reading should give you some idea of how much his voice engaged me with the text.
That said, once you get used to the tone "The hunting sketches" do seem interesting and worth investigating on teir own, I just certainly wouldn't recoment this audio reading for a beginner like myself.
I'd say the other thing I found disapointing was that the entire book ran at about an hour, which had I payed for this I would find disapointing, though I do suppose that depends on the price. Still, at this is labeled as volume 1, one can't help but think they'd have done better to combine them all and have one volume of a decent length.
That said, once you get used to the tone "The hunting sketches" do seem interesting and worth investigating on teir own, I just certainly wouldn't recoment this audio reading for a beginner like myself.
I'd say the other thing I found disapointing was that the entire book ran at about an hour, which had I payed for this I would find disapointing, though I do suppose that depends on the price. Still, at this is labeled as volume 1, one can't help but think they'd have done better to combine them all and have one volume of a decent length.
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