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Anne of Avonlea

By: L.M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Susan O'Malley
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Publisher's Summary

Five years have passed since the orphan girl Anne Shirley came to live in the childless home of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. She has returned to Avonlea to teach in the same village school where she herself was taught. Her earlier friends, Diana Barry, Jane Andrews, Priscilla Gray, and Gilbert Blyth, have also become teachers at neighboring village schools.

A mysterious new neighbor and his parrot named Ginger are now added to the original cast of characters. And there are the mischievious but darling Keith twins, Davy and Dora, whom Marilla has adopted.

Hear more stories in the Anne of Green Gables series.
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Critic Reviews

"With a brisk pace and pleasant, natural style, O'Malley's voice makes a good match for Anne's sweet-natured temperament and higher energy....O'Malley gives the many narrative passages, and Anne's parts, a lively quality, while setting an overall tone of nostalgia to match the story." (AudioFile)

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Wonderfully written

Terribly narrated! After listening to Rachel McAdams narrating AOGG, this was like listening to a robot. Please find a better narrator as this beautiful piece of writing deserves it.

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Love Anne

I love this story and revisiting the story. The narration is jerky and doesn’t flow nicely and occasionally the digital volume changes strangely.

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The narrator isn’t very good

Sadly the narrator reads the novel in a blocky weird way that ruins the fluidity. I listened to the Rachel McAdams version of the first novel but sadly she didn’t do anymore. This one and the rest with this narrator are free for now but I’d rather use a credit for a better narrator for the rest of the novels.

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Disappointing narration

I'm not an expert but the narrator speaks with such a droll tone and it lacks the vibrancy required for any book about Anne. It's even worse when Anne is speaking - some of the emphasises were very strange and ill fitting. Flat and unimaginative and it ruins the experience.

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Great book, bad narration

It was very difficult to get you head around the narration, the first 3 hours especially is so disjointed, and poorly read. The pauses where there shouldn’t be and reading style was very jarring and difficult to listen to.

The story it’s self was great though.

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terrible narration

I saw the reviews and thought how bad could the narration be? but honestly it sounds like I'm listening to a google narration. sorry to say, just very irritating.

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Please get a new narrator

I couldn’t get past the narrator who sounds like a robot reading this book. I was so looking forward to it.

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Some inconsistencies in the recording quality but overall a great audiobook. Not the best Anne story but still good.

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A lovely story

Love the Anne of Green Gables series. The narration was not as bad as some reviews suggest, however I would agree the narrator sounded robotic at times. Did enjoy Rachel McAdams narration

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Lovely story, hard to listen to

The quality of the audio is horrible, getting louder and quieter suddenly as if it was originally recorded by playing a cd and forgetting how far away the recording device was each time you went to set it back. Don't listen with headphones unless you want to hurt your ears.

A shame too, I love stories about Anne Shirley.

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