The Reef

(3 stars)

MF

With all due respect and appreciation to LibriVox for providing such a great service and to the volunteers who give of their time, I say this with only the hopes of improving the experience ... please try harder LibriVox to make sure readers do a better job especially on literary gems like this book. The reader of the first chapter (I couldn’t get beyond the first) simply cannot be understood. I wish there could be a way to get readers to understand that when they read too fast and fail to annunciate carefully it can totally ruin the experience. I realize criticizing here is like looking a gift horse in mouth. However, LibriVox provides too good a service for poor reading to take away from the experience. I can’t help but wonder if some of these readers even go back and listen to their efforts. Or, if anyone is contacting them within the framework of Librvox to gently detail how they can improve, or when necessary, let them know their reading is not acceptable. Often it is as simple as they need to read slower, pause at commas and periods and annunciate more carefully. With all my complaining being said, thanks to all who do such a great job as so many do. Five star book, very poor reading by first narrator, yet she has s lovely voice. I’d like to encourage her to redo her part implementing my suggestions to improve above.

love this book...

(1 stars)

jbrown

...but cannot understand the first narrator. She has a very pleasant voice but the recorded volume is low and indistinguishable. The accent may be surmountable but not as recorded. Hopefully the book may be recorded again as Edith Wharton is well worth the excellent effort of the narrators.

The narrator is extremely hard to understand

(1 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

I tried to listen to this book 3 times but I just cannot understand the narrator at the first chapters. I have absolutely no idea what she's saying. Could you get someone to re-read those chapters so I can listen to this book?

The Reef

(4 stars)

E.Bekker

UNDOUBTABLY Edith Wharton's best novel, yes even more gripping than The Age of Innocence! The reader of the first three chapters however, read so badly one could not understand a single word and I often gave up listening and therefor I shall never know Anna's background.

Good story

(2 stars)

Lynette

sounds like a good story. but hard to get through first few chapters. reader very hard to understand and sorry but not very pleasant to listen to. trying to keep going hoping she doesn't read the whole book. will rate again if the readers improve.

(2.5 stars)

Kitsrain

Great story but some of the recordings are hard to understand. If you follow along with the book though this doesn’t cause much of an issue.

The Reef

(0.5 stars)

Vintage Girl

Love LibriVox; however, I am not accustomed to the dialect of reader. Her sound is delightful, if only I could understand the words.

(5 stars)

Julie leech

Wharton at her finest. BUT I could not understand ELLI at all, so the first 6 chapters were lost