2 readings
Humphrey Bower
We hold 2 readings in this voice, on 9,438 ratings of the narration. Every one of them is rated by enough listeners for us to say where the reading stands. What follows is a record of recordings and not a verdict on a narrator. The stamp belongs to the book, the standing belongs to the reading, and neither of them belongs to Humphrey Bower.
Earmark judges books and recordings, never narrators. A verdict says which format deserves your one and only first encounter with a book, so it belongs to the book; where a reading stands is a claim about one recording, measured against every other book on our shelf, and it belongs to that recording. Neither of those is a claim about a working life, so there is no score here for Humphrey Bower and there is not going to be one. We also say nothing at all about a reading fewer than 250 people have rated. That bar is published on House Rules, and it is the same bar whether we would be praising a recording or criticising it.
Gregory David Roberts
The reading we judged the book on · 5,268 ratings
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 13%In the top 13% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.84Audible’s performance score, on 5,268 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.70Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 1.0%53 of 5,270 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The reading we judged the book on · 4,170 ratings
- The reading sits in the middle of our shelf
- 40%In the middle 40% of our shelf of books, on the gap between a reading and the book it is reading. The same figure the book’s own page prints for this recording, after allowing for how many people rated it.
- The performance
- 4.68Audible’s performance score, on 4,170 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.63Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 2.0%82 of 4,170 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.