In Search of the Castaways

Slightly fanciful, varied narration

(3 stars)

Mali Taus

The story is not too bad although there are parts, like opening a volcano and camping next to it for a day that are a little too "imaginative". The narration is pretty good from just about all the volunteers except for the terrible murder of a number of Australian and New Zealand words like Maori. That's mao-ri as in chairman Mao, not ma-or-i as in "oar". Or perhaps we could start saying Amer - eee - can In - die - ians as in "we" and "dye". While I can accept that the odd place name is mispronounced, the name of a race that appears hundreds of times probably deserves a little research: http://www.forvo.com/word/maori/ But otherwise, thank you for volunteering your time

(4.5 stars)

Amazing adventure

As fun as it is amazing and far fetched. I encourage anyone to enjoy this far flung adventure.

Good book, some frustrating chapters

(4 stars)

Idahoan

The book is great. I highly recommend reading it before The Mysterious Island. Unfortunately a narrator who does not speak very good English reads quite a few chapters in the middle and the final chapter of the book. She is quite hard to understand - even for a listener who speaks to foreign languages besides my native English. It was very frustrating, but I had already invested so much time into listening that I did not want to quit. Do yourself a favor and just read the book unless Libra Vox comes out with a different version.

Wonderful Adventure

(5 stars)

LexiBlossom

This is probably one of my favorite Verne novels yet! There were so many epic happenings and lovable characters. I enjoyed it immensely. *Please note that this book has some racism which is common in older books. If this greatly disturbs/triggers you, you might want to hold off on this read.

Good Story

(4.5 stars)

Logan Nicholson

I was surprised by this one, I love Characters that are truly good even when faced with terrible situations they stayed faithful and stood by their purpose. It was also a lot of fun! Pagonel was such a great character and even though many of the events are fantastic, it is no worse than a super hero movie. I know many people have complained about the narrators not being clear. There were some chapters that had a lot of mispronounced words and a very thick accent. but I felt that with such an internationall story, the accents added to the feel of the book. I shared the characters experience in deciphering a strange foreign message.

find a different narration! some terrible narrators

(1 stars)

AisForRebel

I wish you could flag certain chapters to be redone. there is a woman in the middle of book 2 that apparently is still learning English. And later on in book 3 there is a guy who is probably even worse, ch.9 when he started. I would recommend finding a different version so you can enjoy this book.

(4 stars)

hawk seeker

I’m a truck driver and I listen to many many books. I want to tell you that I appreciate this app and I understand that it is free but some of the readers were almost unintelligible. It was very easy to tell that English is not their first language and it made it very difficult to understand the chapters they were reading.

(2 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

While I appreciate the passion for the book by the readers. Please have readers whom English is their first language. There were several volunteers who you could not understand and made it extremely hard to follow.