Les Misérables, Volume 5

(4 stars)

Ronald Newcombe

The text lives up to its fame. A beautiful and epic tale. The reading ranges from excellent to dismal. Audio quality varies considerably. Not every volunteer has adequate equipment or understands how to make a good recording. Considering that these are the sincere and best efforts of volunteers, the listener must be grateful. Just know that some readers abilities are excellent. Many are not. My recommendation to the volunteers is to at least learn the correct pronunciation of the words, character names and non-english phrases. This alone would compensate a great deal for an inability to vary pitch, pace and power. I would still recommend this reading and am thankful to all the volunteers.

A Remarkable Story

(5 stars)

Monsieur Marius

I first saw the 2012 movie and was interested in reading/listening to the book. Never (NEVER) through the whole book, was I confused, or lost. I will admit that the French pronunciation was a little off at times. But hey, nothing's going to be perfect! The movie was not far off from the book. And the singing defiantly adds...something extra to the story and meaning of the characters. But the book is defiantly just as good.

(3.5 stars)

pacejohnm of Delta, Utah

Some of the readers are detestable the way they butcher pronunciations, but Victor Hugo's Les Miserables...?..."A MASTERPIECE"!!!

overall the story of Les Miserables is a good one. give it a shot.

(3.5 stars)

Secretspy42

The reading of most readers is excellent, and the story is great. I’m glad I have listened all the way through. However, I’m sorry but the places where there is an entire book dedicated to very detailed history or poetry or such are very boring to me so I must admit to doing a bit of fast forwarding.

awesome awesome awesome

(5 stars)

jaded_grl

volume 5 was excellent. the readers did great, except one whose volume went up & down & microphone would squeal. the writer did not go off track much so it kept the story flowing in good detail. very emotion conclusion of anger and sadness happiness. very good story. differs n minor details from musical, but the book is better & makes u appreciate the musical more.

Roy Thomas

(3.5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

We'll read by the volunteers. Kudos! Two suggestions however; 1) some French text was never translated into English by the readers. 2) variations in pronunciation of French words made it difficult to keep up without having the text before me. Thank you volunteers for your time and efforts.

(5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

At first, I was not sure about this book with so much history written...however, after listening to all 5 volumes..I can now say that I am a fan of this book! I will look for more books written by Hugo now. AWESOME

(3.5 stars)

lynhed

This book was good, but required much persistence to wade through. Many of the readers had horrible French accents, difficult to understand. But continue on listeners, you will learn much of French history, and enjoy a long and exciting story!