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H. Rider HaggardShe (February 14, 2008)

LibriVox recording of She, by H Rider Haggard.

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and Horace discover the strange history of Leo's ancestors. Leo and his adoptive father Horace must travel all the way to Africa in order to uncover the solve his family's strange history.
- Written by Lizzie Driver

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This audio is part of the collection: LibriVox

Artist/Composer: H. Rider Haggard
Date: 2008-02-14
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: fiction; haggard; adventure; librivox; audiobook

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Albert Schlef - - September 23, 2008
Subject: She
The novel is fascinating. The end is very moving, and remember that I'm no woman. It's a very engaging story.

However, I agree with what the previous reviewer said: the recodings here aren't good. They lack "character". The voices aren't "real". It's as if they're reading the phone directory!

I was fortunate not to stumble upon the recordings here before I picked up this book. They would have ruined my experience.

But I *did* listen to recordings, that are available at http://www.audiobooksforfree.com. They are in extremely poor sound quality (because I didn't pay for a better sound quality), but the reader, Robert Donald, seems to be a very talented reader. I owe him my enjoyment of this novel.

Reviewer: FNH - - May 10, 2008
Subject: Free Audio, Review
I've listened to "King Solomons Mines" by the same author so followed the authors name to this story. Sadly I was disapointed. KSM had been a real adventure, but this story was like a lost forlorn love story with a bit of "darkest africa" thrown in.

The story itself started alright with a mystery, but then wondered off in to boring realms. The characters were well done but the story was just lacking as far as I was concerned. Not enough happened.

Sadly the recording also suffered. The story was read by various people taking various chapters, which is not normally a problem for me, but in this case as the story itself was not so engaging I found myself being jarred by the change in reader, and the readers styles changed dramaticly. Not a problem with any reader, but because the story was not engaging enough

Reading = 1/3
Production = 2/3
Story = 1/3

Total = 4/9

More of my reviews at http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com