Read by Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette.
A considerable portion of projects in our catalog here at LibriVox are what we call collaborative works. These are completed works that have been read by multiple people, often one person to each chapter or two. If you’re unfamiliar with these collaborative works, Call of the Wild by Jack London is a great place to start. The four readers that contributed to this book (Gordon Mackenzie, Kristen McQuillin, Jean O’Sullivan, and Miette) all do a wonderful job lending their own voice and style to a great classic. Each reader presents the story in a slightly different way, reflecting the great diversity at LibriVox.
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A wonderful return to an old classic! Interesting to have different readers as this provided a welcome variation while listening and all did a great job.
However, the last chapter contained such numerous and loud microphone pops that I simply could not listen to it completely, deciding instead to read the last chaper from the Project Guttenberg text. One humorous incident in that last chapter included the sound of a dog barking in the background. Despite the microphone pops, that single bark was quite charming and very appropriate considering the subject of the book!