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Title: What's a Ghoul to Do?
Subtitle: A Ghost Hunter Mystery
Author: Victoria Laurie
Narrator: Eileen Stevens
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-05-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 734 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. will have to quell the clamor-and listen for a voice with the answers...
Keep chilled: listen to another
.
©2007 Victoria Laurie; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
Members Reviews:
This was a hard listen.
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I think it is hard to hear a woman perform a man's voice (and vice versa) when that man is the main character. It would be worth it to have a man read also.
Would you recommend What's a Ghoul to Do? to your friends? Why or why not?
In this instance I think it would be a better read than a listen. The narator was whiney and I think her best character was the voice she used for the parrot. The other three main characters didn't come off believable for me.
What didnt you like about Eileen Stevenss performance?
As mentioned above, I think her best character was the bird's voice.
Was What's a Ghoul to Do? worth the listening time?
Not really. I think I would have preferred to read this book.
How A Narrator Can Ruin A Story 101
I fully realize that I run the risk of receiving "Unhelpful" votes from those who loved this book/series, so here goes. I purchased this book when it was on sale. If I had paid more, or used a credit to buy it, I would be seriously disappointed right now. I finished the book only because something inside me made me do it. I bought it mainly because it seemed a little different from much current paranormal lit. I had just finished "Nice Girls Don't Live Forever" and admittedly I was going through a bit of withdrawal; however, it is grossly unfair of me to compare this book to anything written by Molly Harper and performed by Amanda Ronconi; a more talented author/narrator team you will not find!
After finishing the book, I'm still uncertain whether or not this might be a good book to actually _read_, but I think more than likely it would not. The storyline was, as I said, a bit different than other books I've read; however, included in it are tons of cliches and phrases that the English language is better off without like "all that and a bag of chips". MJ, the main character regularly refers to herself as a "ghostbuster". Puh-lease. And I quickly grew tired of Stephen's colorful use of English, frequently confusing similar-sounding words and being constantly corrected by MJ or Gilly. The author exaggerated that caricature to death.
I can describe Eileen Stevens' "performance" in one word: inconsistent. At times her reading sounded quite good, but at other times it became halting, as if she was momentarily distracted or perhaps hadn't read that particular passage prior to recording. She would pause in unusual places and put the emphasis on the wrong words in a sentence. And I cringed at her mispronunciation of words like mischievous, pronouncing it "mis-CHEEV-i-ous (ugh!). The story is told in the first person so I had no doubt that M.J., the main character, was speaking when she used the words "I said".
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Title: What's a Ghoul to Do?
Subtitle: A Ghost Hunter Mystery
Author: Victoria Laurie
Narrator: Eileen Stevens
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-05-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 734 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. will have to quell the clamor-and listen for a voice with the answers...
Keep chilled: listen to another
.
©2007 Victoria Laurie; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
Members Reviews:
This was a hard listen.
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I think it is hard to hear a woman perform a man's voice (and vice versa) when that man is the main character. It would be worth it to have a man read also.
Would you recommend What's a Ghoul to Do? to your friends? Why or why not?
In this instance I think it would be a better read than a listen. The narator was whiney and I think her best character was the voice she used for the parrot. The other three main characters didn't come off believable for me.
What didnt you like about Eileen Stevenss performance?
As mentioned above, I think her best character was the bird's voice.
Was What's a Ghoul to Do? worth the listening time?
Not really. I think I would have preferred to read this book.
How A Narrator Can Ruin A Story 101
I fully realize that I run the risk of receiving "Unhelpful" votes from those who loved this book/series, so here goes. I purchased this book when it was on sale. If I had paid more, or used a credit to buy it, I would be seriously disappointed right now. I finished the book only because something inside me made me do it. I bought it mainly because it seemed a little different from much current paranormal lit. I had just finished "Nice Girls Don't Live Forever" and admittedly I was going through a bit of withdrawal; however, it is grossly unfair of me to compare this book to anything written by Molly Harper and performed by Amanda Ronconi; a more talented author/narrator team you will not find!
After finishing the book, I'm still uncertain whether or not this might be a good book to actually _read_, but I think more than likely it would not. The storyline was, as I said, a bit different than other books I've read; however, included in it are tons of cliches and phrases that the English language is better off without like "all that and a bag of chips". MJ, the main character regularly refers to herself as a "ghostbuster". Puh-lease. And I quickly grew tired of Stephen's colorful use of English, frequently confusing similar-sounding words and being constantly corrected by MJ or Gilly. The author exaggerated that caricature to death.
I can describe Eileen Stevens' "performance" in one word: inconsistent. At times her reading sounded quite good, but at other times it became halting, as if she was momentarily distracted or perhaps hadn't read that particular passage prior to recording. She would pause in unusual places and put the emphasis on the wrong words in a sentence. And I cringed at her mispronunciation of words like mischievous, pronouncing it "mis-CHEEV-i-ous (ugh!). The story is told in the first person so I had no doubt that M.J., the main character, was speaking when she used the words "I said".