Madame Bovary (Version 2)

A Classic, but not sure why…

(5 stars)

Scott in Sandy Eggo

First, thank you to Peter Dann for his excellent reading and making this wonderful contribution to the LibriVox catalog. He is one of the very best readers. Tasked with reading this in high school, I returned to see if it held a similar fascination. While shocking for its time, the study of characters who are incapable of suspecting themselves or others of the obvious is perhaps now, and even then, somewhat improbable and less credible. But I suspect that there’s a moral in this story somewhere.

Magnificent

(5 stars)

Vivek

Peter Dann is fast displacing Bob Neufeld as my favourite reader on Librivox. His word-painting and rhythmic variations do the impossible, and make this perfect novel even better.

(4 stars)

calsun

Excellent reader. I always wanted to read this book. The style of writing I enjoyed wonderful descriptions and emotion. The story was a little dull however.

I love this book.

(5 stars)

Karen Bromberg

The reader is superb

Nothing wrong with the audiobook...

(3.5 stars)

Pauliina Tulenheimo

... but frankly, I am not a fan of the story. Sure, the narration has stylistic value, but to today's readers the style is already familiar and for me, to be quite honest, it was simply dull. It reads like a nature documentary and I found there was little tension or subtext in the story (not to mention that since Flaubert's days, these kind of stories of doomed women have gotten so common that it's hard not to find them tiresome). However, the reading itself was great and I am very grateful of the recording because I don't think I could have finished this by reading it on my own.

A Classic of Realistic Fiction

(5 stars)

TLocke

A story of love, romance,and the despair when love does not seem enough in life. IRead this first in my 20s, again at 40. Now nearing retirement, the same tale has spoken a different sense of meaning each time. The misery she left after her suicide now seems the worst most selfish act was her suicide. A cowardly way to leave all with ongoing misery. Reader was very fine.