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The Last Dingo Summer
- The Matilda Saga, Book 8
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-01-2024
is it REALLY read by...a human?
I love the Matilda series. even with its predictability and slight outlandishness, but I weep over the 'reading' of this book, and question if it was produced through a text to speech app.
Whatever the method, it lowered the quality, disappointingly so. Gibber voiced as Gobber, friend as fiend, Bo Peep as Poop, just to name a few. Not impressive
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