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The Turning
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower, Caroline Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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- Katy
- 27-06-2023
Performance made the story better
Look, in general, I actually don't love Tim Winton's writing. But I was teaching this book to a bunch of senior English students, and I really did get behind it. I like these vignettes. I think I liked the first story the most. I can appreciate the subtly in how these human experiences are portrayed. And every now and then, there was a really great string of words.
The narration is one of the better experiences I've had with audiobooks – sometimes soothing in tone, and always well-paced. I would listen to this while washing the dishes and feel at peace.
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- Rachel Scott
- 12-07-2020
Brilliant stories, dreadful audio editing
These wonderful stories are ruined in the telling buy some really thoughtless audio editing. The chapter divisions mean nothing — new stories usually start two seconds after old ones have finished, mid ‘chapter’, leaving no time to adjust. Sometimes there is a musical interlude, usually not. It would’ve been so easy to get this right. One chapter, one story. Not rocket science.
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- Amanda
- 01-09-2015
Enjoyable...great human characters.
Wonderfully narrated..saw the movie first, reading the book made me appreciate it so much more.
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- peter
- 01-12-2022
Great book, not so good narration
Amazing book. But the narrating was average, and the production was hopeless. Several times a story would finish and another start within a few seconds. Stories don’t start at the beginning of new tracks/chapters. There’s music between some stories but not others, and even then they manage to cut the music off before it’s finished. Like I said, great book, amazing writing. But they really screwed up transferring this to Audible.
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- Benjamin Bradford
- 12-01-2023
Amazing book and performance ruined by bad editing
the chapter run into each other with no rhyme or reason where the skip points are. it could be made perfect with maby a good hour of work that was probably already done when it was put onto cd.
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- Joseph Di Stefano
- 06-12-2015
A real feast from Winton
There is something here which Winton has not been able to capture in his later books. That sense of loss, longing, of regret that somehow life has gone its own path when you thought you owned it all.
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- Shane
- 04-08-2018
confused
it may of just been me. but I've listened to it 3 times and I'm not to sure what its about or who is who or what Is going on.
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- Veronica Germann
- 05-06-2018
Language put me off
Could not finish it! Blasphemy is not a necessary addition to the story. Swearing also!
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- Kindle Customer
- 19-08-2018
boring as bats**t
impossible to get through, performers were brilliant considering their nausea-inducing material, well done to them for keeping me listening for the first 4 hours. BRAVO
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