Title: Review of Abridged Audio Book
Product review: Please note, this is not a review of the original book, which is one of my favorites, but only of this particular audio recording.The audio book gets a point for the reader, he did well with the various voices of the characters, and it gets a point for, well it's "Venetia", albeit a really rather butchered "Venetia".It loses 3 points for the unbelievable amount of abridgment. Not just "descriptions of every blade of grass" to (mis?)quote SE Hinton, but huge pertintent parts of Damerel and Venetia's growing relationship are just left out. The bit at the end where she arrives and tells him she understands that she in ineligible because of her mother and he forcefully rebuts her statements - so lovely, and so missing from this recording along with so many other important stages in their relationship. Really, if one is going to cut out so many romantic and funny bits, why bother to record the other parts of the story?
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