Unabridged Audiobook
For a 200 year old book, this holds up well. Maybe I am biased by my recent trip to Southern Spain, where I stayed at the parador on the grounds of the Alhambra and in Seville, also touring Cordòba and Toledo, but Irving's descriptions and turns of phrase summon up a lovely, conflicted land full of kings and commoners and ghosts. A classic--in the good way.
Great book- had to be - as otherwise there is no way I could have endured the pain of the narrator’s butchery of the Spanish language throughout. Sad, because his voice is soothing and his reading exemplary but shameless that he has not even the most basic command of a language that is not only often quoted in the story but we are made to endure the repetition of the title before each of its 30-some chapters - and his mispronunciation of Alhambra over and over again - Spanish 101 : the “h” is silent, buddy … ugh ! Readers, pick a different publication of this title. Narrator, stick to English.
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