Read with love and enthusiasm

This is by far the best Ulysses audio book I have seen. The listener feels that it is read with love and enthusiasm. Absolutely wonderful.

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Very good, but Whispersync.... Sehr gut, aber ...

German below.

Norton's effort is outstanding, this is a joy to listen to.
Unfortunately, I also bought an e-book on Kindle to take advantage of the Whispersync function. That did not work. Having then understood that you cannot just add any two Whispersync articles with one another, it was ultimately impossible to find the e-book corresponding with this Audiobook.

The Whispersync function ought therefore not be considered when deciding for this audio, the sheer quality of Norton's work, however, should.

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Norton trägt genial vor, das Audiobook ist großartig. Leider habe ich dann auf Kindle eine e-book Version gekauft, um sie mit Whispersync zu verbinden. Hat nicht geklappt. Nachdem ich dann verstanden hatte, dass offenbar nur bestimmte Artikel jeweils miteinander verbindbar sind, war es nicht möglich, dem System zu entkitzeln, welches e-book zu diesem Audiobook gehört. Die Whispersync Funktion sollte hier also kein Kaufargument sein, das Audiobook selbst aber auf jeden Fall.

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Very Enjoyable

"Ulysses" has a repuation for being a difficult - and while that repuation is not quite undeserved, it is very hard to see where it is coming from when listening to this audio book.

Jim Norton reads the novel with such obvious enthusiasm and does such a wonderful job at making Joyce's Dublin come alive and giving all of his characters a unique voice that he carries the listeners along with him, making them forget that all of this is supposed to be difficult and turning it into several hours of pure enjoyment.

Strongly recommended!

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Demanding classic brought to life

Joyce’s Ulysses is a truly demanding and lengthy classic. I admit to having failed reading the book through - despite several attempts. But Jim Norton’s amazing versatility and depth of characterization kept me listening “from cover to cover”. The story is set in Dublin, the characters are Irish (with divers backgrounds) -to listen to their voices in their own accents and “language melody” provides a deep, almost corporeal understanding. Some passages made me a bit impatient though, but that’s rather because of the author’s unrelenting verbal playfulness. Also a great thanks to Marcella Riordan’s sensuous Molly

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Too loud or too quiet - terrible audio

this is not only hard to understand for non native English speaker but also the narrator switches from super low reading tone to jelling in an Instant.. enthusiasm when reading is good but there is a limit. If the listener needs to keep the hand on the volume control you went too far.

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Volume range way too big

The whispers are very quiet and the shouting extremely loud. Because this is James Joyce there is a lot of unpredictable switching between whispers and shouts. Also because this is James Joyce the shouts are often about piss or whatever. So trying to listen to this in a public setting is a nightmare. You turn the volume up to hear whispers then suddenly - piss themed shouting blows your headphones up and everyone is looking at you.
This is the only audio book I have this issue with.
Let me clamp audio amazon please.
Otherwise I love the book, love the reader too.

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