Although I hated most of the narrator's performance, let me give credit where credit is due: he does have an excellent French accent and mispronounces NONE of the French words in the book. If you can, more power to you if you can't, then pass on this one. If you think you want this book, listen to the audio sample to see if you can handle Caploe's peculiar and distracting reading style. I don't know if the peculiarities and irritations of this particular performance were his fault, or something he was instructed to do by a misguided producer. Noooooooooo! Am I clear?Well, maybe I would, but only if I heard a sample of his work in a particular (other) performance in which he speaks as a normal audiobook narrator does for a scientific book. Would you be willing to try another one of Andy Caploe’s performances? (Normally I would expect this to be very interesting.) Most interesting: the underlying subject of sleep research.Least interesting: the author's recounting of his own sleepwalking, which goes nowhere. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? You DON'T have (pause) to (falling tone) EMPhasize every (pause rising tone) sinGLE WORD in the book.
My knowledge that my iPhone was not at fault was the only thing keeping me from throwing it out the window (grin).(2) Knock off the use of overly emphatic and flowery intonation in regular passages. Only my interest in the underlying scientific content kept me from asking for a refund. I hated this audiobook's narrator in every chapter without exception, in the majority of paragraphs. It is not Harry Potter, where different voices help you keep the different characters straight. This is not a studio performance of a play. This was INCREDIBLY IRRITATING in a non-fiction book. Or telling the actual narrator to:(1) Knock off the use of different "voices" (Freud speaking in a German accent Brits speaking in a variety of different British accents, some of which are appropriate for the social standing of the person being quoted and some of which are not). What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?Ī completely different narrator. |a Examines the complex world of sleep and discusses whether or not women sleep differently than men and if killing someone while sleepwalking would count as murder. |a Includes bibliographical references (p.
|a The adventures in the strange science of sleep.
|a Dreamland : |b adventures in the strange science of sleep / |c David K.
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