Atlantis


Lu par Margaret Espaillat

(4.3 stars; 13 reviews)

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a whim he boards the the same steamship the dancer is on bound for New York. Hauptmann was heralded as a seer for his description of what happens to their steamship mid-ocean, and what in reality happened to the Titanic only months later. (Summary by Margaret) (13 hr 59 min)

Chapitres

Section 1 16:21 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 2 20:35 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 3 21:15 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 4 14:45 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 5 22:47 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 6 24:39 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 7 24:04 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 8 20:43 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 9 17:14 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 10 21:45 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 11 26:52 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 12 21:55 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 13 28:17 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 14 27:31 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 15 20:58 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 16 22:36 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 17 22:43 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 18 20:43 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 19 24:03 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 20 22:44 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 21 22:56 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 22 13:29 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 23 16:40 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 24 23:21 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 25 21:52 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 26 19:47 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 27 24:43 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 28 26:05 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 29 29:21 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 30 13:29 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 31 22:58 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 32 17:54 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 33 19:36 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 34 25:20 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 35 17:24 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 36 23:08 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 37 23:26 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 38 19:45 Lu par Margaret Espaillat
Section 39 15:28 Lu par Margaret Espaillat

Critiques

Super reader; slow story


(4 stars)

The reader was fantastic. I will have to look up more of Margaret's recordings. Sound quality was great. The storyline itself was good, but the text is full of description of non-essentials and full of philosophical thoughts. Do we really need a minute description of every painting in a New York City pub, for example? I can understand some of the philosophy being in there, but there was a LOT of it. Things like these slowed down the story to a crawl; it could have been told in 1/3 less time and have been vastly improved (IMHO) by the editing. I understand how the description of the book talks of parallels to the Titanic - a ship from Southampton to NYC goes down in mid-ocean, few people survive, and those that do are mostly from the upper classes rather than the steerage passengers. But I don't herald the author as a seer; there were too many differences. The reason for the shipwreck was different; also, this ship wasn't considered unsinkable.

Mediocre book, insufferable protagonist


(2 stars)

Honestly, I have read a lot but I have possibly never come across a protagonist who was so vain, self centered and plainly annoying. The failed doctor with a 'streak of genius' keeps on moralizing and judging all the world while being in the process of abandoning his sick wife and young children to run after a teenage girl half his age. Then he proceeds to vilify said teenager for not being the innocent angel he imagined her to be while knowing nothing about her except her looks. 'I threw it all away for nothing', he keeps moaning. We'll, maybe have a few conversations with a person before deciding you can't live without them. One is used to put up with a good deal of misogyny and bigotry in novels from this era but this was too much at some point and there was not enough literary quality to make up for it. Two stars for good reading.

Admiralble feat


(5 stars)

Reader consequently keeps her tube, her distinct pronunciation while representing the characters with individual and well positioned voices. Should I wish for anything would that be a single second pause after text end until "end of..." is announced.

Meh...


(3 stars)

Great reader, good translation as far as I can tell, but for me the book dragged. I ended up skipping parts or all of chapters and don't feel I missed much