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I now have been using my kindle for three weeks. I was initially impressed by the helpfulness of the kindle community, which is essential reading for a new owner.
The speed of delivery was impressive – four days from the USA to my door-step on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Initially, I found the page small by paperback standards. However, after purchasing a leather jacket and after an hour of reading I soon realised that the book reading pleasure in my later life is greatly enhanced. The convenience of print size, portabiulity and the excellent wireless connection and fast downloads from the Amazon store are outstanding achievements. I am particuilarly impressed by the free first chaper (- or more) sample of an enormous range of books. Prices from Amazon are fair and cheaper than most sites I have found and it is not too difficult to download and reformat other Ebooks, especially classics from the Guthenburg site.
As a life long reader, this is the most rewarding reading experience I have yet encountered. Now my wife wants one!
Canon EF 70 200mm
The book is already bad enough (not going to comment on that further) but the reader Illyana Kudushin’s voice acting did not make the book any better. She was a bad voice actor and put on a poor performance. The book is long-winded enough already and the audio book will make these flaws seem more obvious because the Illyana enunciates every word ever so slowly. She puts intonations and pauses in all the wrong places, pronounces some words funnily, and over all narrates the book (Bella’s voice) with an annoying tone of an immature angsty teen (imagine the tone of voice you would use to imitate a bratty teenage girl). Edward Cullen was suppose to have a sexy melodic voice, but since the reader does a crappy job and probably can’t deepen her voice, his dialog just ends up sounding ridiculous. The book was already tedious and unnecessarily verbose with Meyer’s excessive and ineffective use of “descriptive action words” and dictionary word. That with the bad voice acting made me want to cut off my ears by chapter three and punt a kitten (I like kittens but I was so frustrated). I wasn’t reading the book, so I couldn’t throw anything across the room (not my MP3 player!).
I highly suggest you either don’t read the books at all, but if you want to find out first hand just how bad the series is, at least don’t listen to the audio book. You’ll want to jump off a cliff after an hour of it.
Tamron AF 70 300mm | thinkpop