Read by the Marlboro Man

I've been listening to this whole series, and now in book four, I'm still finding it pretty repetitive, as much of the book is a rehash of the previous books. I mean... who starts a 12 book series on book 4, really? Apart from that it's an excellent story though.

This book series is is a really interesting one to listen to, very thought provoking and at times scary. It makes me feel closer to the Bible and to God. But as a British person, I find the grainy-voiced American narrator a little irritating. He sounds like the Marlboro man back in the cowboy days.
Ok... I totally get that this is on me for wanting to listen to it in the first place, knowing it has American authors and an American narrator. Yup, the whole thing is 100% American. But I still want to listen to the story. The narrator has such a broad accent that his pronunciation really grates on my British ears. Even as he reads out clear directions like "the rabbi said in his thick Israeli accent" he still makes the Israeli guy sound American. Even when the text states that a character is "crying so hard she could hardly speak" he just carries on rolling calmly along with no trace of tears in his voice.
Murderer is pronounced "mrrdrrr" and endured is "indoored". Prerequisite turns into "perk-wizit". Shone becomes "shined" (surely grammatically incorrect?)
A "medioorr" falls on the earth, everyone runs out of "waddurr" in the "volladul" situation, and the right "canniduts" for the job are needed to do all the "coleayding" of the "lidderaydoorr". I have to say that this causes constant irritation and distraction from the actual content of the story. Sorry but I am a very British Brit. Still this would be bearable if he just varied his voice a little bit between characters. but no, everybody - men, women, Israelis, Hebrews, all have the same exact gravelly US voice. All he does is raise the pitch slightly for a woman.
The actual story is great however. It's a really good realistic depiction of the end times and the events of the Bible. I just would really prefer, if not a British narrator, at least a New York accent which is a little less intense to listen to!

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Makes you wonder

Knowing what the Bible says will happen in the last days it encourages you to think whether that's what will occur. As a story it does engage you. The narrator does a brilliant job to make you want more.

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Absolutely Love My God!!!!

Absolutely Fantastic books!!!!
Just hope that it will get The world to read Revelations!
Thank you for such awesome work

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Gripping and suspenseful!

This is a great story and I am listening to the whole 12 volumes for probably the 3rd time, being a student of Bible prophecy. The actual story is absolutely fascinating and really helps to bring the Biblical end times to life.

The heavily exaggerated American accent of Richard Ferrone unfortunately grates heavily on my ears. Listening to him mispronuncing FRENCH words the American way (Maitre d' turns into "Mayderr dee" and Naivete becomes "nyeevtay") as well as hearing about all the "missals" and "harrr" of the "volladel" times, and mangling (to my British ears) words like "monitored" as "maanidrrrrd" just gives me one long continuous cringe! He also gives every character an almost identical voice - he pitches it slightly higher for the female characters, that's all. Even though all the textual clues point to how the characters should sound (eg a "heavy Hebrew accent") and a lot of the characters are multinational, so ought to have many different accents (never mind different American regional accents) he just uses his same heavy American drawl for everyone. I don't know what his accent is, being English myself, but it's really exaggerated. So I can't give this 5 stars for narration. Although his voice is pretty expressive, he just doesn't vary the tone.

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Man, does this series move slooooooow

1/4 of this book series is padding and repeating things that happened before isn't it?

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