The Egoist

Great book, disappointing readings

(2 stars)

Randall Curb

"The Egoist" is one of the great comic novels in English. Unfortunately, most of the chapters here are read by people for whom English is clearly not their first language, and they read without any irony, comic timing, or sense of the true nature of the novel. Only one, Martin Gieson, is atune to Meredith's intent. Some of the others mispronounce hundreds of words and read without inflection, in a monotonous cadence. Sadly, I had to give up about halfway through.

Too bad

(2 stars)

KAB

Would have been a good book but too many bad readers ruined it. The last one read like a typist!

(3 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

The novel was tough to get through, with so much narrative exposition and so little action or even actual dialogue. Meredith was actually a valuable mentor and critic of Gissing's early work, but I think that Gissing is the superior novelist.

Egoist

(3 stars)

WarrenJ

Great and sometimes very funny novel. Clara is an interesting character. Many different readers on this recording, so the standard is uneven, as some are very good and others don't catch the comic side of the story.