Read by a human? Are you sure??

What would have made Bleak House better?

A human that can speak with inflection and passion and doesn't sound like Adobe Acrobat voice reader. The story is fantastic, one of my favourite Dickens novels, but the naration is driving me mad!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Bleak House?

I love it all, there are so many! Also I don't want to spoil it for anyone who doesn't know the story. Krook's demise is particularly good!

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Jim Killavey?

Anybody else, but Simon Callow would have been excellent.....

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

Definitely disappointment, I'm currenlty looking for an alternative naration of it.

Any additional comments?

Having a narrator that can pronounce the words as they are meant to be pronounced and not literally as they are written, would be a start!

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Bleak House Review

Although this is a stunning book by Dickens. The reading of the book is a very poor one. Dickens has a name for writing paragraph long sentences. These are then quite hard to read first time over. I feel that the orator does a huge violence to the meaning of the story in the way it is read.

If you just want to hear the story because it is a fair size book, then go ahead and buy this. If, however you are familiar with this particular story and look forward to hearing it rather than reading it again, please save yourself the bother. You will almost certainly be disappointed!

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