2 readings
Timothy West
We hold 2 readings in this voice, on 2,814 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 Timothy West.
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 Timothy West 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien · with Samuel West
The reading we judged the book on · 1,263 ratings · Two voices
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 11%In the top 11% 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
- 4.81Audible’s performance score, on 1,263 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.64Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 0.6%8 of 1,266 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien · with Samuel West
The reading we judged the book on · 1,551 ratings · Two voices
- The reading sits toward the top of our shelf
- 26%In the top 26% 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
- 4.77Audible’s performance score, on 1,551 ratings of the narration in every shop we count.
- The book as told
- 4.64Audible’s story score for the same recording: the book, as this recording tells it.
- How often it goes badly
- 1.2%18 of 1,557 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.