The Moon and Sixpence

In an American Voice

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

A parallel story to the life of Paul Gauguin leaving everything for Tahiti and his separation from the rest of the world, with remarkable portraits of those along the way, narrated in an American voice.

Public Domain (P)2021 Deaver Brown

worse narration ever

I did my best to like this book, because I planned to listen to it on a long drive ... but I don't think I got past a chapter or two, because the narration is so awful. I've never heard worse. In addition, the background music -, why was it even necessary to have background music - was too loud. The narrator stumbles over words that are not difficult to pronounce, it sounds like there was no practice or effort prior to recording... that it's a cold read. Narration makes it extremely difficult to understand the story. I wanted to return it and get my money back but I couldn't figure out how to do it. So I'll suck this up as a lesson learned to never get this narrator again.