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Okay continuation Sherlock

Revisado: 12-29-24

Nothing special continuation Sherlock Holmes story with a hint of steampunk. Find as a free included book, would not pay credit for it.

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A legal classic

Revisado: 07-18-24

A great collection of stories. A wonderful introduction to the great Rumpole. They define his character.

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Good in parts.

Revisado: 07-08-24

The first story is a real slog, I almost returned the book several times during the first 45 minutes. Only the fact I was driving stopped me. If you can make it to the one hour mark, things start to pick up. The end result feels somehow unsatisfying as a murder mystery.

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Incredibly bad Scottish accents, but I persevered.

Revisado: 03-07-23

I am really not sure how they decided to use this narrator. Considering how much of the book is set in Scotland and has Scottish characters, it would seem an obvious choice to choose a narrator who can do a Scottish accent. Unfortunately, Luke Daniels really cannot. While Irish, I have lived in Scotland for the last 30 years and have no idea what his attempts were meant to sound like.

Honestly, considering the main character makes so much use of a text to speech app, you could possibly have produced a more listenable book with a good selection of computer generated voices.

I did persist with the book however, as the actual story is entertaining, well paced, and makes generally good use of Scottish words. (Though I did have to go and check what an ascot was, that seems to be an American word for what we call a cravat in Britain.) I did enjoyed the novel itself a great deal.

I often get added enjoyment from a well narrated book, but situations like this make me sad I can no longer read paper books for health reasons.

I am dismayed to see the same narrator has been chosen for the second book in the series.

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An interesting short story.

Revisado: 01-30-22

This is an interesting short story in his typical style.

It’s worth a listen to while away an hour.

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Let down at the very end

Revisado: 12-15-19

I got all excited by the description of the Mac n Cheese given by KWAME ONWUACHI near the end of the podcast so downloaded the pdf. The published recipe used different ingredients and a different method. Can we have the recipe for the one he describes using the eggs & carnation milk with the one hour covered oven cook? Did the person putting together the PDF not listen to the book?

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Heavy handed Christian message

Revisado: 07-13-14

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I think the strong Christian nature of this book should have been mentioned in the description.

What could G.P. Taylor have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The story telling style got very monotonous.

What about Garrett Cornelius’s performance did you like?

Good range of voices. I think it was only his reading that made me finish this book.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Annoyance. Boredom.

Any additional comments?

I began to wonder if the Rev Taylor had written the book using words like Jesus and Devil, then searched and replaced for his character names at the end.

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Bad quality audio

Revisado: 05-02-13

Any additional comments?

This recording need to be replaced. It is very poor quality. The story and performance might be fine but it was hard to hear.

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Good book, but bad female voices

Revisado: 05-29-12

How did the narrator detract from the book?

This is a good story but the narration is not good, all the young female characters sound like startled leprechauns.

Any additional comments?

If you enjoyed the other honourverse books I would recommend it though, despite the narrator.

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Not a good book to abridge

Revisado: 01-04-11

The original is a long book so this abridged version does not work very well. I liked the setting and would like to read the full version but it just felt like you were leaping from point to point in this version to get the key plot covered.

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