Romola

Not my favorite

(4 stars)

Paul Busman

On a positive notice, the readers of Romula are all quite good with no difficult accents or distracting mispronounciations. The negative for me is that Romula deals much more with Florentino politics and infighting than I found interesting. This is just my personal preference so don't let it deter you for giving it a try As usual, Eliot's writing is very insightful.

Really quite interesting

(5 stars)

Lynette C.

This does start slow if you're expecting action. but when you embrace the richness in exposition, it becomes not only quite interesting, but entertaining as well. The LibriVox readers did a fine job. I should have read this ages ago (have owned a copy, unread, for decades), but listening to it now while painting my houses trim has been very good.

Meh

(2.5 stars)

KAB

Other reviewers are right in saying it takes a while to get going. There isn't enough story for the length of time it took to tell it. I skipped almost-entire chapters for their rambling, & there is a lot of content that really doesn't bear on the story. Overall, I don't know why Eliot thought this book so great, although I think it could have been had it been more consise.

(2 stars)

sr

I tried… this might be a great book but I cannot overcome many of the readers. Too fast, not articulate, poor recording quality/sound,odd and unnatural inflection…Thank you for reading, for some maybe practicing. I get it. But I can’t listen to every single style, habit, quality reader. Just my pov.

(4 stars)

LOUIS Deegan

Some readers were very good. Sadly some reader's pronunciation was do bad that they couldn't pronounce the main characters properly.