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Moby Dick

The Whale

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Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: Alan Munro
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Moby-Dick is widely considered to be the Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story details the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whale ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale: Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. And Ahab intends to take revenge.

Public Domain (P)2013 Trout Lake Media
Classics

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Would you try another book written by Herman Melville or narrated by Alan Munro?

Alan Munro comes very close to managing to spoil this exceptional novel. I actually came on to double check the narrator was a real person and not a computer program. Clearly he is reading the book for the first time as he narrates but even so his failure to use intonation correctly is spectacular! He repeatedly places emphasis on the wrong part of the sentence which mangles meaning and utterly spoils the experience by jarring with the listener. Like all audible narrators he also feels obliged to employ a series of terrible accents for characters. Do read this wonderful book but don't let Alan Munro read it to you.

What didn’t you like about Alan Munro’s performance?

All of it. He places intonation in the wrong place consistently and as such distorts the authors intent. Truly the worst narrator I have ever heard.

Did Moby Dick inspire you to do anything?

Yes I went whaling afterwards, what do you think?

AVOID!

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No emotion in the narration. Made a great book seem boring which was a shame.

Classic tale, but narrator was poor, lacked emotio

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would have been much better if the reader hadn't tried to do accents during dialogue. These were cringeworthy at best and some were terribly stereotypical

generally good - good value

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Poorly read. EmPHASis all wrong. Such a crazy good book deserves more effort. Did the narrator read the book before recording?

Poorly read.

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The story of course is a classic. But this narrator has the oddest style, pausing constantly at random points in a sentence as though he understands the words but not the meaning. I downloaded a different version and it is far superior.

Gave up after one chapter

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