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The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Grahame Stevens
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Publisher's summary

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. The best of the Holmes novels!

Public Domain (P)2013 Trout Lake Media

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Great story, unfortunate narrator

Very hard to distinguish some characters, and Holmes has an obnoxious, lilting falsetto.

The store was adequate, but surprisingly predictable and straightforward.

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  • JC
  • 03-21-19

slight problem

The narrator read clearly and the different character voices were good but throughout the reading words and phrases were skipped or the wrong name was read. made it slightly confusing when reading along with the book

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Great mystery

I really enjoyed this Sherlock Holmes mystery i like mysteries and the narrator did a great job

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Very nice

I was very pleased to find this, since I have having immersive difficulty reading the book myself and I have to have read it for school the only thing keeping it shy of 5 stars is the occasional stray from the book. A word changed here and there, or a word omitted. Once even a few lines omitted. And right before chapter thirteen, the narrator paused in the text to say “chapter thirteen” even though for my text, the chapter didn’t start for another page and a half. It is possible that my book is off compared to Conan-Doyle’s original text, but my copy is marked as complete and unabridged. Other than that, no complaints!

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Voices Off

I have always loved this story but voice that Mr. Stevens chose for Sherlock was too falsetto. It kept taking me out of the story because it was so irritating.

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Terrible choice of narrator

Would you try another book from Arthur Conan Doyle and/or Grahame Stevens?

This isn't Conan Doyle's best work to begin with and needs a good narrator to lift it up. Unfortunately, this narrator is terrible and drags it down. Way down. Apparently he's a comedian by trade (not a bad thing in itself) and seems to think it's his job to make the prose sound ridiculous with an ironic attitude. He also didn't seem to know the story before he started to narrate...e.g. one character is described as having an odd lisping speech, which we discover is a clue that she's a native Spanish speaker, but Stevens plays it as a preposterous speech impediment.

If you’ve listened to books by Arthur Conan Doyle before, how does this one compare?

Worst narration by far of any of them. By far. In its own league.

How could the performance have been better?

It could have been a different person. Ralph Cosham, say. But really, anybody.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It's fun if well-narrated. Kind of thin for Doyle--he didn't have a novel's worth of plot but was apparently determined to make it a novel--but with a lot of great moments. The descriptions of the moor are pretty wonderful if read well. Not in this version.

Any additional comments?

If you haven't read any Holmes stories, I wouldn't start with this. Try The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or A Study in Scarlet. If you want to listen to Baskerville, there are much better narrations of it on Audible. Hurry to those.

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Hoped for a better audio but it came short.

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Better narrator.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Not another one from Arthur Conan Doyle. This was boring and slow paced. I'm sure that during the time period it was written it was awesome but we have better writers now.

What didn’t you like about Grahame Stevens’s performance?

British thing

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Hound of the Baskervilles?

I would add sound effects and music

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Excellently narrated version of the classic novel

I have listened to many versions of this classic Sherlock Holmes story, read by many voice actors. Graham Stevens does a superb job narrating, even better than some more well-known actors. I highly recommend this audiobook.

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Good.

A treasure of all of Doyle’s stories. The eerie night of fog on the Moreland, as Sherlock and Watson take a night ride. Is the creature real or not. The suspense of the plot was well done by the narrator. Given audio for my. Voluntary review

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Slow start with a strong finish

Hang in there! This one gets better and better and lives up to its reputation.

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