There is also too much time explaining the relationships between other characters in the book that are not related to the main characters. I really got the feeling that either of these characters could have gone off with anyone else. The author never really gives you an understanding of why these two characters are reallly together other than to keep each other company through life's journey. What would have made Baltasar and Blimunda better?

I consider this narrator as owing ME for having ruined this experience for me, and NOT entitled to 20%. Is there any way I can use ZERO stars, or do I have to settle for ONE.

Failing that, she should NOT be allowed to do ANY dialogue. I'd like it done in its entirety by another narrator. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Baltasar and Blimunda? Why in the world was this narrator chosen? Is this book so infrequently ordered that not much effort was put into selecting her? It made me sad to lose the story because of her really inadequate and silly attempts. Since I liked the story, I kept convincing myself that she was not as bad as I remembered. I could not listen for more than 10 mins before shutting off. Saramago's prose is considered rather good, don't you think? 3. This kind of phony drama was totally unnecessary. Male and female switches were cringe-making. Her attempt to simulate character voices destroyed the flow of the story. What didn’t you like about Tamir’s performance?ġ. I have many many books in mind for listening. I have several in my library to which I have not yet listened. What do you think your next listen will be? OL7922578W Page_number_confidence 93.54 Pages 358 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210527205621 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 998 Scandate 20210527030957 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0345356764 Tts_version 4.What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? Urn:lcp:baltasarblimunda0000sara:epub:7a14a1fd-b248-4dcc-8d2f-703977fb7e68 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier baltasarblimunda0000sara Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9097hv6b Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9677 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0000836 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:05:15 Boxid IA40125118 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago