We hold 2 readings in this voice, and 56 ratings of the narration across all of them, short of our published bar, and 250 is where we start letting a judgement about a reading move a verdict. So this page is a credits list: what Michael A. Smith has read that we hold, and nothing about how well.
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 Michael A. Smith 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.
Hermann Hesse
An alternative reading we hold · 43 ratings
Our verdict on the book is Read it, decided on a different recording, not on Michael A. Smith’s.
Hermann Hesse
An alternative reading we hold · 13 ratings
Our verdict on the book is Either. Don't overthink it, decided on a different recording, not on Michael A. Smith’s.
Alphabetically, and none of these is the reading we judged its book on. Not a ranking: nothing on this page is ordered by a figure. Change the evidence and the page changes with it.