Silver on the Tree
Book 5 of The Dark Is Rising Sequence
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Alex Jennings
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By:
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Susan Cooper
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"[Alex Jennings] is a master of dialogue, slipping effortlessly into the cadences of children's voices and characterizing accents from around the British Isles and beyond. This is a satisfying conclusion to the series." (AudioFile)
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- Jon Buckeridge
- 11-10-23
Great story, awful recording
The sound quality on this recording is not good at all, and it sounds tinny and rough compared to the rest of the series. Add to that, the Welsh accents and pronunciations are shocking. Given that the book before has several sections where the character of Bran explains to Will how to pronounce all of these words and locations, you'd figure the production team could have grabbed the information they needed pretty easily.
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- Penni Bestic
- 27-04-21
Very bad use Welsh
I have been fond of Susan Cooper’s books for a long time. I just had fun listening to the dark is rising but when I heard the Silver on the tree I could not under the crass stupidity in having a narrator whose grasp of Welsh was simply appalling. I don’t know if he realised that Wales is a country of many dialects, both English and Welsh. The narrator of the Grey King was brilliant and understood to the subtlety of colloquial welsh. I think you need to re-,record the book as soon as possible.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-02-17
Wonderful story
A wonderful epic story! Highly recommend it! This book brings the stories in the previous books together.
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- Dorothy
- 03-10-12
Final part of one of my favourite sequences
Love this but please can't you get 'Over sea, under stone' and 'The dark is rising'?
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- Morag Sutherland
- 07-08-23
Frustrating listen if you speak Welsh
Love this series, and the 4th book was read by someone who was excellent at pronouncing all the Welsh. This reader wasn't at all good. This made for a disappointing and annoying listen as a Welsh speaker, particularly as the correct pronunciation is carefully explained by one of the characters to another during the 4th book !
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-06-18
great ending to the sequence
I love these stories and they have been beautifully narrated - the only criticism I can make of Silver on the Tree is the appalling Welsh pronunciation throughout.
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- Fiona298
- 28-01-22
Terrible Accents!
Alex Jennings is a great actor, but he really shouldn’t have read this book. His Welsh accent and pronunciation are dreadful. “Dyfi” as “diffy”, for example. Was there nobody to advise him?
There was a different narrator for The Grey King, whose accents and pronunciation were perfect. He should have done this one too.
Jennings’ voicing of the English characters was good, and the story is good, but the Welsh ones were terrible, and very off-putting.
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- Dreow
- 12-04-17
Has to be one of the best tales ever.
Replayed over and over. A book I will never tire of. Thank you for the dreaming.
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- Miss M Lewis
- 04-01-19
Almost excellent
I love all these books and this is almost an excellent rendition...it's such a shame that the little research it would have taken to get the Welsh pronunciation correct was not done. The, otherwise, engaging performance is however marred by the garbled approximation of the Welsh.
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- David Tunstall
- 16-09-17
A thoughtful end to a magnificent series.
rereading (listening to) this volume makes me remember how much ground the series covers. much folklore and myth is brought into this series of linked books.
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