Don Quixote - Vol. 1

great book, horrible reader

(2.5 stars)

Matt

this book is fantastic,deep, over the top, comical. Whatever your positive adjective, it applies to this book in one way or another. I dont want to rate the book too low because its as real work of art, but one reader kelly bescherer needs to have her chapters re-recorded. I just skipped chapters 33-40 because it was so unintelligible, she truly ruined the reading of this book.

One reader ruined it for me

(1 stars)

prat

I don't mean to be rude - and I tried hard to keep going on - but it was impossible for me to continue listening. All I can say is that all chapters read by Kelly Bescherer need to be re-read. I somehow managed to get past chapter 5, relieved that the reader was finally out of the project - but sadly she shows up again in chapter 16. The problem is if this was a solo project, I could have just not bothered listening - but this ruins the work of so many good readers who contributed. I guess there should have been some peer review - although too much to ask for something that's free, but it pains me to see a great work gone to waste.

I have to agree with reviewer "prat"

(4 stars)

cmih

It was great up until chapter 16. Chapter 16 reader is Kelly Bescherer. While I think it is generous when someone volunteers to read for Librivox, I also think there should be some quality standards. Ms. Bescherer reads VERY quickly. You could say she is a "speed reader". Her reading is exceedingly difficult to understand, even for someone whose first language is English. She often mumbles words or stumbles over them. In some places, the recording has been edited and a correction by a different reader has been inserted. So obviously someone reviewed this work and knew there was a problem. Why no one asked Ms. Bescherer to re-record her chapters I do not understand. Ms. Bescherer's reading reminds me of myself when I was learning how to type. My teacher repeatedly admonished me to slow down. I could type very, very quickly, but I made a ton of mistakes.

great except for one reader.

(4 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

you will know what i mean. being she speaks at such rapidity it is truly a wonder whether she is capable of breathing at all. as such, the whole joy of listening is lost in a blurr of barely enunciated monotony. other than her, it is rather great.

Someone get bgdavid!

(1 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

i love this story. I despise having it chopped up into separate readings, especially when the readers are terrible, especially that one who chews her words. Please get a solo copy done by a reader who knows how to enunciate without sounding like a whining fop:'(

started off well but the reader featherheadrop(??) dreadful. How to ruin a clas…

(0.5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

First time reading

(2 stars)

Christopher Mitchell

This has been my first reading of this classic, and although it’s been enjoyable, I have to agree with other reviews about the narrator featherheadfop. I continued listening through the chapters she read and can only surmise that she was doing this under compulsion. Reading too quickly to pronounce words correctly, stumbling over words and having to repeat them and gasping loudly periodically made a good portion of this aggravating to listen to. I don’t know how she made it through the review process.

awesome work of art!

(5 stars)

adam

Difficult readers aside, this is a wonderful and influential work that clearly affected everything that followed it and broke ground in terms of style, tone, flow of story, and use of humor. It is heroic and beautiful, and most importantly, it is hilarious! Also, one of the chapters has been re-recorded and several of the difficult understand portions have been fixed, which makes it more listenable, although those chapters are still somewhat difficult. It is totally worth it though!