Quo Vadis
A Narrative of the Time of Nero
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Frederick Davidson
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Marcus, a Roman officer in Nero's army, risks his career, his family, and even his life when he falls in love with a Christian woman named Callina. In order to win Callina's love, Marcus must come to understand the true meaning of her religion, even as Rome sinks under the excesses of Nero and Christians are thrown to the lions. Quo Vadis brims with passion and life as it explores one of the turning points in history.
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- Amazonian
- 12-04-18
An epic story lumbered by an insufferable narrator
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Quo Vadis is a splendid story of epic scope, ambition and achievement, surely the tipping point and crowning glory in Henryk Sienkiewicz’ Nobel Prize for Literature… but Audible’s offering is fatally lumbered by the insufferable narrator! Frederick Davidson’s delivery is so camp and inappropriate it becomes offensive and disrespectful. Like other very perceptive listeners have commented, “his performance was stilted and lacked nuance. For example, Lygia was always breathless and Peter sounded like Dracula” “…the narrator speaks with an uber-upper class British accent that, combined with the archaic language, turns the characters into snobs and drama queens.” I couldn’t agree more. Davidson’s delivery has aged very ungracefully – it probably sounded OK forty, fifty years ago, but to us today it is too pompous, forced and arrogant. This is a crime because Quo Vadis is one of the greatest epic novels ever written– please, Audible or someone, bury this version forever and get a modern actor with more brains, better range, sensitivity and respect to record this magnificent text!
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- Axel
- 18-09-15
allow yourself to get into it...
Where does Quo Vadis rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
at the top third,, I am sure I will listen to it again some time
Who was your favorite character and why?
Petronus, the aloofnobleman
What does Frederick Davidson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
His performance has been criticised. In my opinion his performance suits the main character Petronus very well. It may take some time to get used to his style, but actually after a while I became very appreciative of the performance
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
If I say it would spoil the stotry, right?
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Alexander Rufus
- 17-09-22
Outdated Language
If thou hadst any desire to listen to a translation of this work in the English of thy forefathers then perchance this tortuous time is got thee...
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- ovi
- 18-07-19
disappointed... very disappointed..
The author took a tone of books about history and re-wrote them in this book. Add a bit of spices with religion and a love story - and done...
There were moments that I dozed off trying to skip all the overly-explained details.. which if you don't know exactly what they mean, you'll never figure out what is written.
Everything develops slow and in a very non-exciting way...
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- Chamqvist
- 15-07-15
terrible narrator!
after two hours I could not stand his voice any more and quit the book
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