A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Uneven but entertaining.

(4 stars)

robcat2075

Verne often introduces interesting elements (like the giants they see from a distance) then drops them with little development. None-the-less a great adventure story and I see many notes of humor in it that I did not detect when I read this many years ago as a boy. Of the many readers who contributed to this audio edition, I preferred the first one, "the soon-to-be-famous Vinnie Bove" for his theatrical flair for voices and I wish he had recorded the whole book.

(4 stars)

Tekla

Fun book, if Verne's least scientific, though he makes fun of that himself. The changing of readers was a bit uneven, but none were a chore to listen to and a couple were quite excellent!

Amaze

(5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

I love reading books but I don't always have time to read, this way I can do more than one thing at a time! and amaze book

quite listenable yet quite far from perfect

(4 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

All the readers have in their ways pleasant voices and pronounciation. The changes in reading style make the reading as a whole a bit uneven. Even more so do the variations in technical recording quality in between the chapters reaching from an actually decent experience to slightly disturbing noise levels over heavily audible compression artifacts down to chapters adding noise levels about as loud as the readers voice. This criticism is to be understood as a helpful guide for potential listeners and shall not devalue the honorable and mostly enjoyable effort of the readers.

multiple readers

(4 stars)

K

all of the readers for this book were excellent, but I found it a bit distracting that there was a different reader for each chapter

(5 stars)

Brittany D.

enjoyed the story, all readers spoke clearly, plus this is the original Verne copy and not a translation with added chapters

Vinny Bove is a pretty good reader!

(4 stars)

tauntonlake

I was put off by Vinny Bove's shameless self-promotion in his introductory blurb before starting the first chapter .. but once he started actually reading, I was pleasantly surprised. He has a very good narrative voice, clear, and keeps the narration moving along nicely, good pacing .. If you've ever listened to the Dexter books, narrated excellently by Nick Landrum - Vinny sounds almost exacly like him. I kind of wish he had read the entire book. :)

changing narrators

(4 stars)

Anthony

overall not a bad reading and a great book but the constant changing of narrators and each chapter starting with the "librivox recording in the public domain, to volunteer go to such and such, my name is blank and here is my website" was really distracted and jarring to the overall narrative of the book.