2 readings
Michael Maloney
We hold 2 readings in this voice, on 2,286 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 Michael Maloney.
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 Maloney 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.
Louis de Bernières
The reading we judged the book on · 1,378 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
- 4.74Audible’s performance score, on 1,378 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
- 2.8%39 of 1,389 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Either. Don't overthink it, decided with this reading in front of us.
John Boyne
The reading we judged the book on · 908 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
- 4.74Audible’s performance score, on 908 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.72Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 1.5%14 of 909 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.