Worst. Narrator. Ever.

Purrlease, Audible! Why would anyone who had ever heard an English accent, or an Australian accent, or a woman's voice, contract Mr Snyder to read this apparently interesting book? Seriously, I truly believe I could have done a better job myself. Since when did Britain's royalty speak in Estuary English?
This will be the first book I've ever tried to return as unlistenable. Truly atrocious!

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What a dreadful narrator!!!

I've been waiting for years for these books to come on the audio market, the story is a real boys own adventure, but why have they got this narrator, when he's doing an American character it's ok but when he try's a female one
It's laughable, a female British voice is dreadful, a female Australian voice OMG talk about Dick Van Dyke in Mary poppins.
It's a real shame they've really missed a trick here.
I still bought the trilogy through as I love JB's work.

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How to ruin a good story

The book of this is very good, in fact it's probably the strongest of the trilogy. The story is still there in this audio book but it's too difficult to listen to.

I'm sure Jay Snyder is a nice person, but maybe needs to find something other than bad voices to do in a performance. I really would have preferred a monotone rather than being snapped out of the story by an impression of an English female captain (Halabi) that is nothing short of terrible! No wonder he goes by at least 8 different names (wikipedia)!

Sorry but this is a must miss, unless there is an alternative version from 80 years ago..

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Mary Poppins at war ?

really enjoyed this as a book a few years ago. but the narrators attempts at both British & Australian accents nearly made me vomit ! somehow, a female Dick Van Dyke seems to have joined a British crew. as such it was rendered as unlistenable !

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Great story, absolutely awful narration.

I've read these books before and loved the story. Thought I'd give the audio book a listen.....big mistake. Imagine Dick Van Dyke's chimney sweep from Mary Poppins narrating and you're coming close to how appallingly, toe curlingly bad the narrator's accents are. Unlistenable, avoid.

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Good book spoiled by narrator

I've not taken much notice of reviews to date but oh do I wish I had. Good story but shocking narration. The female characters are poor, as are British and Australian accents - so poor that the book is unlistenable - apologies to author but it just doesn't work

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interesting concept but an awful narration

I genuinely believe I wasted my credit getting this.
the story is intriguing but when you listen, you realise that the characters are simply one dimensional.
if this isn't bad enough, the narration is awful. the narrators own accent is ok but when he tries any other than American, it's painful to listen too.
in short, I'm giving up on it and am going to try and get my credit back

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Good story, terrible performance

As others have said the accents are awful, the American performer Synder can only seem to do American accents.
His English accent tends to be as someone else has said, like Dick van Dyke, cringy bad.
His Scottish is awful too.
His Welsh is the worst impression ive ever heard is so bad its not even funny.
His Australian is really poor.
His German is ok but kind of makes me think of mustache-twirling villains whilst hes doing some of them.
The way he says Hawai is really irritating, i know its probably how its pronounced by the natives but I doubt Synder is from Hawai, not like we call Germany; Deutschland.

Why would they hire a person who cant do 50% of the accents is beyond me and have to take a lot of the blame for this, and to be honest the writers (Birmingham) take on how people from the UK speak is about 30 years out of date and taken from a sitcom or something.

Which is a shame because after listening to all of them I enjoyed the story quite a bit.
P.S. Julia Duffy is really annoying throughout and including John F. Kennedy I thought was shoehorned and stupid.

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Part of a yarn

I enjoyed the book. Good story well written and, considering the subject, believable.

it's well read but the accents made me smile. The British accent was like Dick Van Dyck in Mary Poppins. it didn't spoil it though.

It's part of a series so be ready for it to stop in the middle, leaving you bereft until you get he next book. Which I did, so take that as a recommendation.

Good time travel book

Would you consider the audio edition of Weapons of Choice to be better than the print version?

I have all three of the audio books in this series and got through the them in 1 week.Te way the story develops is well paced and you get a good feel for the story. The way the groups in the books play off against each other is well thought out and the action is exciting. The way the futuristic weapons are used and historical characters portrayed is believable.