![]() A range of complex characters developed through the context of the war they were part of. Where does The Best of Our Spies rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? It passed the time and I recommend it to more tolerant and easy-going listeners who just want a good spy yarn. ![]() I'm just tensed for the next fumbled sentence so I can yell at the narrator or the writer like some sad old git shouting at the telly. But for me these things get in the way to such an extent that in the end I'm not even listening to the story. And if the story's good perhaps I shouldn't care about these minor points of style. ![]() Does anyone else get as irritated as I do by repetitions of the same adjective in a sentence, people who are sat or stood - not sitting or standing, armchairs only ever slumped into? Probably not. His mispronunciation of French words also manages to give one of the resistance fighters a sex change (from Françoise to François.) But it's not just the reader, the writing is quite flat too. Perhaps it's just the flatness of the narrator who gives the German and French characters virtually interchangeable accents (which doesn't do a lot for dramatic impact ) and whose frequent emphasis on wrong words in sentences gives the impression he's discovering the book for the first time. ![]() The story is a surprising new take on an old theme, the research impressive but all the same I wasn't drawn in. ![]()
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