Title: Bad audio quality
Review: We purchased this for a long road trip in the car so we could listen to The Hobbit. The story is an amazing story and this review is NOT about Tokien's writing...it is simply about the recording/audio quality.I am a fan of the concept of AUDIBLE.COM, but I avoided one of the options here on Amazon b/c of their (in my opinion) poor audio quality. Well, this one was worse than my past audible.com experiences. The volume and the clarity was inconsistent (at best) and at times, depending on the chapter and the character, it was very hard to hear their dialogue. We constantly had to change the volume to either hear the character or to turn it down so we didn't blow our ears out. AND the voices/characters were...cheesy, to say the least. I know there are 14 main characters and then tons of ancillary voices, but some of them just sounded like they were the other characters only whining. It was quite annoying.So - buy an audio version of this book - just not THIS audio version!
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