Anne of Green Gables

Complete 8-Book Box Set

By: Lucy maud montgomery

Narrated by: Annie Stewart

The only complete Anne of Green Gables box set! Makes a great gift and is a must-have for any longtime reader or fan of the Netflix series Anne with an E. Favourites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets. Includes the following beloved eight titles: - Anne of Green Gables: Anne ages 11-16. Track 1 to 38 - Anne of Avonlea: Anne ages 16-18. Track 39 to 68 - Anne of the Island: Anne ages 18-22. Track 69 to 109 - Anne of Windy Poplars: Anne ages 22-25 Track 110 to 153 - Anne's House of Dreams: Anne ages 25-27. Track 154 to 193 - Anne of Ingleside: Anne ages 34-40. Track 194-234 - Rainbow Valley: Anne age 41. Track 235 to 269 - Rilla of Ingleside: Anne age 49-53. Track 270 to 304©2024 Public domain (P)2024 NTMC

Great storey, poor narration

I absolutely love Anne series. I grew up with a full set of the books and would have loved to read it again. However as an adult, I just don't have the time. Enter Audiobooks. I found this version with all 8 books and thrilled! Then I started listening. I am so sad that the narrator sounds like she is AI. I wouldn't mind so much if someone had gone through and listened and edited before posting. Her emphasis is misplaced, easy words mispronounced - such as will was "Wha I I'll." I was so confused when I heard that. At times she's monotone when Anne is being emphatic. Mariella was excited when we all know she is mostly calm and collected. This reading just takes me out of the story. On top of that, there's no space between chapters or books. You hear either a number out of the blue or a title that you think is a sentence at first. If you can get past the AI feel of the reader, the series is still very delightful.

Favorite classic story with unprofessional narrator

I overall love this classic series. Anne is my favorite character. I bought this set to own all books in one but the narrator mispronounced some words and there were several odd glitches/sounds or cut off words like the recording stopped and started up again in the middle of a word. Is this AI or an unprofessional recording? The cover obviously is AI, but since I like the story I tolerated the narrator. The voice was pleasant enough but had little expression.

Best books, poor narration

I love the books themselves and the Librivox recordings by Karen Savage are by far the very very best. The only problem, there is not a recording of Anne of Windy Poplars in that flavor, so I ended up getting this set. The English accent is really too much for Anne of that era, but could be tolerated except there are many broken places in the reading where her inflections stop a sentence, then start again and truly end the sentence, but it leaves a broken feeling to it and can be hard to follow. Also, the books are not separated, the entire thing runs together up to nearly 300 chapters, so if you want to read a certain book it can take a few minutes to find it. And the other thing is there is no pause between chapters. Such as when chapter 4 is being read of a book it says something like ….and that was the last time five things happened five Anne was so wanting to find …. Etc - the word “five” the second time was to indicate the beginning of chapter five, but it is said so quickly and without pause before or aft that you feel it is part of the sentence and you get discombobulated. Anne read badly is of course better than no Anne at all, but it really does affect how the characters are built and played out. And by all means, please do not watch Anne with an E - such a totally bash of the beautiful storyline that Lucy Maude Montgomery gifted to us! The Sullivan movies will give you the correct vibe with all the good morals, and even though they condense and change the story lines, they stay TRUE to the characters.

I refuse to believe this isn't AI narration

Same as every other review. I love L.M. Montgomery, but this is awful. What ISN'T wrong with this narration? Run on sentences. Stutters and onomatopoeia mispronounced as if the characters said the names of vowels. Two letter words spelled out. Marilla is never pronounced the same way twice, much less properly. Randomly inserting chapter numbers into two sentences as if both ending and beginning sentences were the same. Monotone dialogues interspersed with the wrong emotional delivery. It's not like these are understandable human mistakes, but uniquely obvious as artificial intelligence doing text to speech. Computers can't narrate and you shouldn't be lying to your customers as if we won't notice. After all, we're actually listening to the audio.

Good series/bad audio

I purchased this because it had all of the books, but the audio is absolutely terrible.