2 readings
Michael York
We hold 2 readings in this voice, on 33,277 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 York.
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 York 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.
Aldous Huxley
The reading we judged the book on · 32,105 ratings
- The reading sits toward the bottom of our shelf
- 18%In the bottom 18% 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
- 4.30Audible’s performance score, on 32,105 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.10Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 6.5%2,102 of 32,113 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our verdict on the book is Read it, decided with this reading in front of us.
C.S. Lewis
The reading we judged the book on · 1,172 ratings
- The reading sits toward the bottom of our shelf
- 2%In the bottom 2% 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
- 4.48Audible’s performance score, on 1,172 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.68Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 4.8%56 of 1,174 listeners gave the performance one or two stars.
Our own arithmetic calls this recording the weak half of a good book. Our Hall of Shame sets out the working behind that, and what it does not claim.
Our verdict on the book is Read it, decided with this reading in front of us.