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Title: White Seed
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Author: Paul Clayton
Narrator: Lee Harpster
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-21-13
Publisher: Paul Clayton
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 31 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A fully-realized historical thriller in the tradition of James Clavell's Shogun and Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
One of the most haunting mysteries in American history - The Lost Colony of Roanoke - comes roaring back to life in White Seed, with a compelling cast of characters, including Maggie Hagger, indentured Irish serving girl, a victim of rape and intimidation; Manteo, Croatoan interpreter for the English, inhabitant of two worlds, belonging to neither; John White, ineffective Governor, painter, dreamer, father and grandfather; Captain Stafford, brave and disciplined, but cruel soldier; and Powhatan, shrewd Tidewater warlord who wages a stealthy war against the colonists.
Members Reviews:
An interesting piece of history
This is not brilliant writing but it's a good story and told well enough. The questions of what happened in Roanoke has always fascinated me. of course it's speculative, but it's interesting.
Can't get past the narration
The mystery of Roanoke is fascinating and I was excited when I saw the description of this book.
Not sure if it is a good book or not. I simply can not get past the narration! It is read with all the inflection and drama you might hear at the library any Saturday morning when it is story time for the kiddies. Irritating. The frequent mispronunciation of common words is jarring. I'm 8 hours into it, ashamed that I have wasted this much time and giving it up.
If you really want to explore this - get the paper book, not this audible.
This is THE WORST narrator I've ever listened to
Would you try another book from Paul Clayton and/or Lee Harpster?
I might try another book from Paul Clayton but would not ever again listen to another audio book narrated by Lee Harpster
Would you be willing to try another book from Paul Clayton? Why or why not?
I would possibly try another book, but while it was interesting to read the historical account of Roanoke, the characters were so one dimensional. There were so many points where I thought the writer would delve further into a character's background, but he really only ever scratched the surface. I might have enjoyed this book more were it not for the narration.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
It's an absolute shame how terrible this narrator's performance was. I should have returned this book, but I kept with it because I was really interested in how the story turned out. Throughout out the book, he routinely mispronounced so many words (striated, anemic, gaol, raucous, mottled, tallow, cupboard, inexplicably, among many, many other words), that you could almost make a game out of it. It actually even started to be kind of funny, to a certain point, when I wasn't cringing inside. How an editor could have let this be published as an audiobook like this is a complete mystery. Aside from the hundreds of pronunciation errors, the stye of narration was terrible. Every woman sounded like a shrew! The narrator used such a shrill voice that he made every single female character unlikeable. Regardless of what they were saying, he made them really sound like women on the verge of hysteria.
