Atlantis


Read by Margaret Espaillat

(4.5 stars; 11 reviews)

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a whim he boards the the same steamship the dancer is on bound for New York. Hauptmann was heralded as a seer for his description of what happens to their steamship mid-ocean, and what in reality happened to the Titanic only months later. (Summary by Margaret) (13 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Section 1 16:21 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 2 20:35 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 3 21:15 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 4 14:45 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 5 22:47 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 6 24:39 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 7 24:04 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 8 20:43 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 9 17:14 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 10 21:45 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 11 26:52 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 12 21:55 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 13 28:17 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 14 27:31 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 15 20:58 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 16 22:36 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 17 22:43 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 18 20:43 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 19 24:03 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 20 22:44 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 21 22:56 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 22 13:29 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 23 16:40 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 24 23:21 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 25 21:52 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 26 19:47 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 27 24:43 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 28 26:05 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 29 29:21 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 30 13:29 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 31 22:58 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 32 17:54 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 33 19:36 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 34 25:20 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 35 17:24 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 36 23:08 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 37 23:26 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 38 19:45 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Section 39 15:28 Read by Margaret Espaillat

Reviews

Super reader; slow story


(4 stars)

The reader was fantastic. I will have to look up more of Margaret's recordings. Sound quality was great. The storyline itself was good, but the text is full of description of non-essentials and full of philosophical thoughts. Do we really need a minute description of every painting in a New York City pub, for example? I can understand some of the philosophy being in there, but there was a LOT of it. Things like these slowed down the story to a crawl; it could have been told in 1/3 less time and have been vastly improved (IMHO) by the editing. I understand how the description of the book talks of parallels to the Titanic - a ship from Southampton to NYC goes down in mid-ocean, few people survive, and those that do are mostly from the upper classes rather than the steerage passengers. But I don't herald the author as a seer; there were too many differences. The reason for the shipwreck was different; also, this ship wasn't considered unsinkable.

Admiralble feat


(5 stars)

Reader consequently keeps her tube, her distinct pronunciation while representing the characters with individual and well positioned voices. Should I wish for anything would that be a single second pause after text end until "end of..." is announced.

Meh...


(3 stars)

Great reader, good translation as far as I can tell, but for me the book dragged. I ended up skipping parts or all of chapters and don't feel I missed much