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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Bad reading of a brilliant book Brilliant book, dreadfully abridged, shamefully read.
I felt there was no need to abridge this brilliant book, but then the reading just adds insult to injury.
There are other unabridged versions available and substantially better well read...sorry, but don't touch it!
NOTE: One star is the lowest rate on this item...zero would have been a better choice!
the hobbit by rob inglis AFTER listening to the entire harry potter series narrated by jim dale on cd/ipod, i could not wait to hear the hobbit, by jim inglis!!! i was horribly disappointed by this narrator's rendition! his voice is annoying, and i can't stand when he makes up tunes for the songs in the book. and when he does, i can barely understand a word he's saying. it makes me wish i had the book in front of me. i find myself fast forwarding through the "songs" which of course, makes me miss some important dialog.
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Martin Shaw J.R.R. Tolkien really write well, and Martin Shaw reads amzingly. His readings are just as good as in the Silmarillion, and that was an achievement in itself, but this is a good buy because its about the only rendition of the Hobbit that can be enjoyed by both children and adults. His readings truly bring you into another world. And his voice truly belongs in Tolkien's world, as some of the other reviews say, he truly brings you into another world, and you enjoy every minute of it.
The well-read Hobbit Our teacher read The Hobbit to us over the course of a few of weeks when we were about seven. It's one of the few stories that stuck in my imagination from those early school days - four decades ago. Our teacher was good at reading stories. She could mesmerise us. I wouldn't expect Martin Shaw to be anywhere near as competent as that teacher. I would have been satisfied if he'd been half as good. Well, he was much better than I was expecting. He was good! The right reading style for this book is really a... more info
