2 readings
James Langton
We hold 2 readings in this voice, on 18,902 ratings of the narration. 1 of the 2 are rated by enough listeners for us to say where the reading stands; the rest are named and not scored. 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 James Langton.
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 James Langton 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.
Pierce Brown · Dark Age · with Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk and 1 more voice
The reading we judged the book on · 18,869 ratings · Read by 5 voices
- The performance
- 4.74Audible’s performance score, on 18,869 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.71Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 2.0%377 of 18,913 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the run is Listen to it, decided with this reading in front of us.
Hermann Hesse
An alternative reading we hold · 33 ratings
- Rated by too few people to place
- 3333 ratings of the narration, short of our published bar of 250. So we name the reading and print no figures for it.
Our verdict on the book is Either. Don't overthink it, decided on a different recording, not on James Langton’s.