Andy Boissonneau

Worst sound editing on audible.

Reviewed: 10-26-23

The performance is actually fine, but it sounds like no one did an edit of the recording afterwards. Mouse clicks, presumably from promoter software, are prevalent and distracting and there are random long pauses. I’m sure if these were eliminated by a few hours work the entire books could have been shortened by an hour or more.

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Fawning and uncritical

Reviewed: 09-11-23

The author, an employee of the Tailhook Association, knows where his bread is buttered. This is a book for the crowd that wants to hear how everything was better back in the old days. Completely glosses over the fact this man ran for president on a segregationist ticket. I also learned more about this man ham radio hobby than his wife and daughter.

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Interesting accent choices

Reviewed: 02-10-22

So the main authors/editors of this collection are both American, however the narrator speaks with a British accent EXCEPT when he is quoting a historical figure who happens to be from the states when he switches into a very convincing American accent. Hearing this it just raises interesting questions why he renders the author’s words as British if he can do a convincing American accent.

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Awful recording

Reviewed: 08-15-21

This sounds like it was recorded in one take in a gas station men’s room.

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Worst performance ever

Reviewed: 05-20-20

This is the worst, most distracting reading of a book I have encountered on audible. I felt like a paid for a libravox recording. Narrator appears to not have pre-read anything. He Mispronounces both common and technical words, emphasizes the wrong part of sentences, laughs at the authors jokes. Sometimes after making an error in reading a sentences he will repeat the entire sentence, sometimes he doesn’t even bother doing that. Turning pages are clearly audible. For a book written by a disabled person I find it shocking that such a haphazard recording would be made rendering it almost inaccessible to the vision impaired.

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Worst performance ever

Reviewed: 05-20-20

This is the worst, most distracting reading of a book I have encountered on audible. I felt like a paid for a libravox recording. Narrator appears to not have pre-read anything. He Mispronounces both common and technical words, emphasizes the wrong part of sentences, laughs at the authors jokes. Sometimes after making an error in reading a sentences he will repeat the entire sentence, sometimes he doesn’t even bother doing that. Turning pages are clearly audible. For a book written by a disabled person I find it shocking that such a haphazard recording would be made rendering it almost inaccessible to the vision impaired.

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A funny, South African take on Grit Lit

Reviewed: 01-14-17

A funny, South African take on Grit Lit but with a somewhat happy ending. It is refreshing to hear a autobiographical triumph-over-adversity story that fully recognizes the role luck and charity played in the author's success. As he describes the obvious injustices of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, it is hard not to see troubling parallels with our own country. Noah's own narration is excellent, and considering there are a half dozen South African languages in the book I doubt there are many others who could effectively match the performance. It also contains the most adorable story involving a kid named Hitler you will ever read.

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