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Title: The Dark Vineyard
Author: Martin Walker
Narrator: Bill Wallis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-01-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Captain Bruno Courrèges is roused from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis. Bruno, the only policeman in the small Périgord town, follows the fire engines towards the site of a large barn, now engulfed in flames, the surrounding fields ablaze. Everything points to arson.
A Californian wine maker is planning to buy up half the valley to create a huge wine-producing operation. But opinions are divided. When another outrage follows the crop burning, it appears that someone is determined to stop the scheme and is prepared to go to any lengths including murder to do so.
Members Reviews:
Brilliant !
Great entertaining writin from Martin Walker with absolutely fabulous narration from Bill Wallis.
You actually feel like you are there, great characters with a cracking story line, you know when you've picked a good one when you actually feel like you're there !
Really looking forward to the next one !
An unfortunate mismatch
Would you consider the audio edition of The Dark Vineyard to be better than the print version?
Martin Walker's books adapt well to audio, but in this case the print version is far superior.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Bruno is a thoroughly endearing character, with interesting hints of a difficult start in life but a deep devotion to the part of France where he now makes his home. The book is set in France, and Martin Walker brings to life the traditions and pleasures that really are still there after the tourists have gone home. But the picture of the friendly, familiar local copper also draws on a long and esteemed tradition including Dixon of Dock Green, Barnaby and Lewis---although the British-type nature of the character only occurred to me when I heard this reading.
Would you be willing to try another one of Bill Walliss performances?
Bill Wallis reads well, with good pace and clear diction, but he is an unhappy choice for this particular character. Bruno is meant to be a youngish (40-ish) French policeman; Bill Wallis makes him sound very much like Wexford--an elderly Englishman. Regional accents too draw on various unidentified bits of the UK; and the ladies' voices all sound like querulous old women. Finally, his French pronunciation can be quite distracting: Perigueux, the capital city of the Perigord, is pronounced with 3 syllables ---per-i-gueux, not 4--- per-i-fu-eux. The second 'u' is not pronounced, its only purpose being to harden the 'g'.Bill Wallis is an accomplished reader, and in something like Dickens or Trollope he would be magnificent. He is just an unfortunate mismatch for this particular book.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
This is a gentle detective story, without lots of violence and gore, but with an original plot that draws on Martin Walker's knowledge of this specific and very beautiful part of France.
Bruno, our underestimated hero
Narration by Bill Wallis much appreciated. The first book's reader made pronunciation errors and didn't seem to understand French culture, but the later books suffer even more, from a narrator who adopts comic French (and Scots) voices for most characters. The cocacolonisation of the French wine industry is at the centre of the plot, mass production, plus, possibly, maybe, some insecure jobs.
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Title: The Dark Vineyard
Author: Martin Walker
Narrator: Bill Wallis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-01-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Captain Bruno Courrèges is roused from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis. Bruno, the only policeman in the small Périgord town, follows the fire engines towards the site of a large barn, now engulfed in flames, the surrounding fields ablaze. Everything points to arson.
A Californian wine maker is planning to buy up half the valley to create a huge wine-producing operation. But opinions are divided. When another outrage follows the crop burning, it appears that someone is determined to stop the scheme and is prepared to go to any lengths including murder to do so.
Members Reviews:
Brilliant !
Great entertaining writin from Martin Walker with absolutely fabulous narration from Bill Wallis.
You actually feel like you are there, great characters with a cracking story line, you know when you've picked a good one when you actually feel like you're there !
Really looking forward to the next one !
An unfortunate mismatch
Would you consider the audio edition of The Dark Vineyard to be better than the print version?
Martin Walker's books adapt well to audio, but in this case the print version is far superior.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Bruno is a thoroughly endearing character, with interesting hints of a difficult start in life but a deep devotion to the part of France where he now makes his home. The book is set in France, and Martin Walker brings to life the traditions and pleasures that really are still there after the tourists have gone home. But the picture of the friendly, familiar local copper also draws on a long and esteemed tradition including Dixon of Dock Green, Barnaby and Lewis---although the British-type nature of the character only occurred to me when I heard this reading.
Would you be willing to try another one of Bill Walliss performances?
Bill Wallis reads well, with good pace and clear diction, but he is an unhappy choice for this particular character. Bruno is meant to be a youngish (40-ish) French policeman; Bill Wallis makes him sound very much like Wexford--an elderly Englishman. Regional accents too draw on various unidentified bits of the UK; and the ladies' voices all sound like querulous old women. Finally, his French pronunciation can be quite distracting: Perigueux, the capital city of the Perigord, is pronounced with 3 syllables ---per-i-gueux, not 4--- per-i-fu-eux. The second 'u' is not pronounced, its only purpose being to harden the 'g'.Bill Wallis is an accomplished reader, and in something like Dickens or Trollope he would be magnificent. He is just an unfortunate mismatch for this particular book.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
This is a gentle detective story, without lots of violence and gore, but with an original plot that draws on Martin Walker's knowledge of this specific and very beautiful part of France.
Bruno, our underestimated hero
Narration by Bill Wallis much appreciated. The first book's reader made pronunciation errors and didn't seem to understand French culture, but the later books suffer even more, from a narrator who adopts comic French (and Scots) voices for most characters. The cocacolonisation of the French wine industry is at the centre of the plot, mass production, plus, possibly, maybe, some insecure jobs.