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The following are 5's: George Guidall
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I know I've listened to something by Guidall as the name definitely rings a bell, but at the moment I can't remember what it was or what I thought of his narration.
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Finally ... we need to talk about Flo Gibson. I give her a 4, but she's definitely an "acquired taste"!
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She's fresh in my mind so I have a lot to say! I just listened to her on The American Senator in the last month, and had listened to her a few years ago on Tom Sawyer when still new to audiobooks. Unfortunately I have to give her a 2. Without having any idea about her, I chose her for the Twain out of many options because I thought her somehow old-fashioned sounding elderly American voice distinctly suited narrating an old Americana classic. While her voice did suit, she reads very different sentences with the same cadence regardless of context. It's not monotone, but since she uses this same cadence all the time it's along the same lines of monotonous. What I can say in favour of this is that eventually as I listen I get used to the sameness and forget about the narration.
Her narration of the Twain alone I would've probably gave a 3 but she mangled up the Trollope more. She was the only narration option I could find for it. I can say she gave a try to doing the voices and accents, and well, she gave a try.
Seeing she was the only option for the Trollope had me research her and so I found she spent decades recording unabridged narrations for books which many otherwise had no narrations before, and some such as The American Senator are still that way. So for that I commend her. I now realise she has a huge catalogue and I usually see a version from her anytime I search for a classic audiobook.