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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: How bad could a reading of Metamorphoses be?
Review: I've read two translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and enjoyed them so much I wanted to hear them read out loud. The first shock was just how abridged this reading was, it fits on only one cassette. But the second shock is how beyond painful it was to listen to the narration which was less about Ovid's (or Boer's) words, and more about the overacting of the reader. It's the worst thing I've ever listened to, and if this stops even one person from buying the tape, I'll rest easier. Waste of money. Waste of beautiful poetry.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ovid's Metamorphoses is wonderful
Review: Ovid's Metamorphoses is wonderful, essential reading and gets 5 stars easily.. I like Mandelbaum's translation best.. However here I am reviewing the audio tape reading of the Boer translation with Noah Pikes as narrator. The quality of the recording is horrible, but even worse is the "performance" of the narrator. Because of the extreme histrionics (to put it mildly), poor diction, it is impossible to understand 90% of the words. and the reading is stilted and sounds like Tonto (yes, of the Lone Ranger) reading. It is only a few selections from the Metamorphoses, poorly choosen at that.. easily the worst puchase I've made at Amazon (of over 1500 items so far). 1 Star is too high a rating.. I threw in it the trash..


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