The Silent House
Written by Fergus Hume
Narrated by LibriVox Community
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted.
In the first half of the audiobook, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the audiobook, however, is filled with plot twists and mistaken identities and thus complicates the mystery much more.
Summary by cherly
Fergus Hume
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer and critic, best known for his innovation in the biographical genre. After starting his career by writing reviews and critical articles for periodicals, Strachey reached his first great success and crowning achievement with the publication of Eminent Victorians, which defied the conventional standards of biographical work. Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsburg Group, a club of English artists, writers, intellectuals and philosophers. Growing very close to some of the members, Strachey participated in an open three-way relationship with Dora Carrington, a painter, and Ralph Partridge. Stachey published a total of fourteen major works, eight of which were publish posthumously.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The plot was entirely too "convenient", but mostly the narration was awful almost to the point of being unlistenable at times. I understand that Librevox is volunteer and amateur based, but some of these narrators seemed like they were just jacking around.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Story was charming and interesting in terms of plot twists, despite being obviously old fashioned. Narration was all over the place. It started out good and just as you become invested in the story, it switches up and is all over the place throughout the middle. There were a couple of people who I had to speed up to make it bearable. Aside from that, the story was enjoyable. 3.5 stars
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good story. Lots of twists and surprises.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Couldn’t finish the book. The narrator(s) were really bad—monotoned and either unable or unwilling to inject any inflection or emotion into their voices. It sadly felt at times as though the narrator was reading the book to me while reading it him/herself for the first time, and didn’t know when the inflection should occur. It made for a boring listening expert which I eventually abandoned about halfway through.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very awesome book. Would listen to it again. Wow great.