Congo (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 92 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642…a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition - along with Amy - is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death.....
Congo was adapted to the screen and directed by Frank Marshall.
Customer Reviews
Julia whelan is one of the absolute greats of narration.
I just want to give her the props she deserves. This is an earlier work.
Check Stella Maris by Cormac Mcarthy if you want to hear just how much she brings to the table.
There are two must hear narrators, Ben Miles being the other.
There are many many wonderful practitioners but I won’t let her be disparaged without giving my expert opinion
Poor narration
I can’t stand when narrators insist on doing a different voice for every character, especially for the opposite sex. In just sounds goofy and takes you out of the story. In this case, you have a female narrator for a book whose characters are about 95% male, trying to talk like a man. The way she imitates them is laughable. It almost sounds as if she’s mocking them. It makes the audiobook unbearable.
Unlistenable
Sorry I can’t put up with this narrator doing a fake man deep voice for every male part. She’s sounds like she’s mocking them. Why couldn’t she just have read it normally in her regular voice?