Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3

Various Styles All Worthy

(5 stars)

LakotaSpeaker

The Librivox Project 'Mission' & Volunteer Readers' deserve an honorable place in literary station. Keeping the written classics in this format hopefully ensures their preservation for future generations. The Readers' in this series have various styles. While some use imitation voices, others use changing tones and inflections to make the story come 'to life' for the listener. Obviously, this is a 'talent' in which each might not be equally adept. I do recommend this series, as it is personally preferred to the other volumes in this group.

I didn't get into this book

(3 stars)

mikezane

There was one reader who read several stories and they were unlistenable, too many mic taps. Of the stories I could listen to, the readers were very good, but the stories were blah IMHO. It seemed like the authors were trying too hard to tell a mysterious and emotional story at the same time. I found them annoying rather than entertaining. I don't think it's a bad book, just not a good one, it is just so-so.

(3 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

why does the program stop after some sections. I have adjusted the "sleep" mode to give hours of play time. yet the program continues to stop and I have to press the arrow head to continue playing the next section. The program did not use to do this. it would continue to play until pressed to stop.

mostly entertaining

(3 stars)

Gerard Kelly

the stories were mostly mildly entertaining some good readers however, one of them stuttered stumbled and lipsmacked his way through the text as if there was no punctuation. He was obviously sight reading and then began the ridiculous attempt at voice acting. Oh Dear.

Good stories if you're into it.

(5 stars)

serrafina

If you like mystery stories, these are for you. Enjoy!

A mixed bag, but some stories are worth listening to

(3 stars)

glttrgrl8

As in volume 1, the adjectives "mystery" and "detective" are kind of a stretch for some of these stories. The stories in the beginning and the end are pretty good, but the collection does meander off course in the middle. Probably the most disruptive thing is one reader who is very difficult to listen to because of poor audio quality, assorted mouth sounds, heavy breathing, and random long pauses midsentence. (And vocally it's considered good practice for men to not do women's voices in falsetto because it is difficult to understand and possibly painful to the ears through headphones!) Although I do appreciate the attempt to add dramatic interest by using character voices, a regular-voiced reading focusing on the content as well as clear enunciation and pronunciation, with pauses and emphasis where appropriate, is almost always better (unless, of course, you're über-talented like Mil Nicholson). However, aside from this one misguided exception, the readers are quite good overall.

A mixed bag, but some stories are worth listening to

(3 stars)

glttrgrl8

As in volume 1, the adjectives "mystery" and "detective" are kind of a stretch for some of these stories. The stories in the beginning and the end are pretty good, but the collection does meander off course in the middle. Probably the most disruptive thing is one reader who is very difficult to listen to because of poor audio quality, assorted mouth sounds, heavy breathing, and random long pauses midsentence. (And vocally it's considered good practice for men to not do women's voices in falsetto because it is difficult to understand and possibly painful to the ears through headphones!) Although I do appreciate the attempt to add dramatic interest by using character voices, a regular-voiced reading focusing on the content as well as clear enunciation and pronunciation, with pauses and emphasis where appropriate, is almost always better (unless, of course, you're über-talented like Mil Nicholson). However, aside from this one misguided exception, the readers are quite good overall.