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Note: this review is specific to the edition of the book I listened to. It introduces itself as a public domain audiobook. I'm not sure how that works.
The translation is very flat and dead. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it destroys the movement that the book actually has.
There's also an inconsistent mix of Latin and Greek names. Also not necessarily bad, but it distracts from the story. The version I read this summer was alive and easy to focus on (I think it was the Barnes and Noble signature classics). This one is not.
To exacerbate the problem, the narrator has a stilted, awkward reading style. His inflection is terrible and every sentence he reads seems to be a struggle.
I'm quitting this audiobook to look for a better audio version of The Iliad.
The translation is very flat and dead. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it destroys the movement that the book actually has.
There's also an inconsistent mix of Latin and Greek names. Also not necessarily bad, but it distracts from the story. The version I read this summer was alive and easy to focus on (I think it was the Barnes and Noble signature classics). This one is not.
To exacerbate the problem, the narrator has a stilted, awkward reading style. His inflection is terrible and every sentence he reads seems to be a struggle.
I'm quitting this audiobook to look for a better audio version of The Iliad.