Can You Forgive Her?

HOOKED FOR THE SERIES

(4.5 Sterne)

Avid Listener

Trollope knows how to build a story with interesting characters. Alice makes one want to shake some sense into her head, and Mr. Grey and Mr. Palliser are good supporting personages. But, you have to absolutely love Lady Glencora, especially when her part is read by Laura Koskinen. Laura, your voice and inflections are superlative. Thanks for your time.

Excellent book, so-so readers.

(2.5 Sterne)

Mary Lynn

the book itself is excellent! The readers are a mixed bag. A few are excellent, several mediocre, and one is almost unintelligible. I understand this is a volunteer organization, but I wish there was some curating of the readers.

(3 Sterne)

jcb

The story itself, as with all Trollope’s that I have heard heard thus far, deserves a full 5 stars, but the clipped, mechanical, almost monotonous style of the primary reader, to say nothing of her “Mac-LEE-odd” and full-stop commas, took 3 tries and increasing the recording speed to get through the first two chapters. Thankfully, the majority of the readers were far better, with some being what I would consider outstanding “natural readers”.

(5 Sterne)

A LibriVox Listener

I loved this story! I'm a big fan of Trollope - I've listened to almost every book. This one is my favorite so far. His books are almost formulary - there is a love union that you really want to happen but there are so many things to overcome... but this one had the right degree of tension for me. I knew John Grey would overcome!

Trolloppe is all over the place

(4 Sterne)

kk

I love Anthony Trollope's works, however he does tend to overlap too many stories. The main story lines in the book are great, the minor storylines distracting and irritating. Most of the volunteers are decent readers, some impossible to understand or annoying in the staccato.

Better than expected

(4 Sterne)

gooch12

There's always a risk in listening to a Librivox book recorded by a group of readers, as you never know what you're going to get. In that respect, this volume of Can You Forgive Her?, was actually much better than expected, considering that there are 80 chapters here and numerous readers. Most of the readers were very good, which made the recording as a whole fairly enjoyable to listen to. There were, however, a couple of notable exceptions that I feel compelled to warn you about. One reader was seemingly in a race against the clock to get her chapters in. She went so fast (barely even pausing for punctuation) that it was damn near impossible to follow the story. It didn't help that her chapters were juxtaposed with one of the slower, more deliberate readers of the group. Another reader was clearly not a native English speaker, and his accent and pronunciation problems were a bit distracting at times. Fortunately, he only read two or three chapters, so it wasn't that big a deal. Again, most of the readers were terrific (and one gentleman who read a couple of the middle chapters even sounded like a professional voice actor!), so this book is worthwhile even though it's a group project.

(3 Sterne)

Lynette

It was a good book and most of the narrators were good. The problem I have is the length, I felt it had too many subplots. For instance, mr. cheeseacre aunt greenow I felt was an unnecessary part of the story. And what in the world did both Alice and Kate see in George. He was a horrible person with no redeemable qualities. And then attempt to give all your money to him. Wow what a way to waste the independence Alice had. Glencoe and her husband was an interesting subplot but again she is pining over a good for nothing man vergo fritzgerald who at least was good looking but gad nothing else going for him over all. Mr. Pallid er was so clueless on how to make his wife happy but he did put an effort in. Yea for John Grey he was awesome throughout but man did he have to go through a lot. overall a good book but unnecessarily long.

(5 Sterne)

A LibriVox Listener

I appreciate the volunteer readers who clearly invest so much in these readings. I only wish that they would do enough research to ascertain the correct pronunciations of the names of people and places, not only to present them all correctly, but to prevent the distracting and annoying inconsistency among readers and from chapter to chapter.