While the stories are good, the narration ranges from “fine” to “execrable.” This may be the first audiobook I’ve listened to where I had to skip a story (“Ring of Fire”) because the narration was so bad – I don’t know if the issue was specific to the narrator (Deepti Gupta) or the recording quality, but every other sibilant in the story was so high pitched that it was like having a needle shoved in my ear.
While the other narration wasn’t physically painful, a lot of it was very bad. Perrin (for example) has so little concept of pacing or emphasis that it was like listening to an alien trying to piece together human speech with no frame of reference other than a dictionary.
Just impressively awful. This collection should be re-recorded with competent narrators or better audio engineers – it would absolutely rate a 4 or 5.