Part 1 - Babbitt Audiobook by Sinclair Lewis (Chs 01-05)

Part 1. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mike Vendetti.

[SiPsicologia]

I like that, it is English listen to me, listen to very good clear English voice and watch the words on the screen. I like it a lot. Thank you CCProse

[boocat]

so wonderful, so great to sit back, relax and hear this historic novel...how to thank you sir.

[rickcoona]

Thank you very much CCProse
i very much enjoyed this offering and think your channel is a gem
--Rick

[GhostTracker]

Have you read the novel on your own without listening to the audio format? He constructed a WONDERFUL rapid rhythm in the narration but it's not captured at all when read poorly (as here).

[BlackViod]

thumbs up because he sounds like the narrator in the intro of csi

[jclaveau]

Salut !

On va écouter et voir si c'est vraiment clair, si on comprend bien. Et poster pour certains collégiens et étudiants. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGTH.

YES ! YES ! PERFECT.

[BugsWisely]

I am sitting here laughing listening to this book. I didn't know Sinclair Lewis was a humorist. This is some hilarious shit.

[BugsWisely]

One of the ads was a promotion about how great and irreplaceable teachers are. To me teachers are not great, but forced to convey that which the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT directs them. What an interesting contrast with this book. With that ad; YouTube created a battle within my mind. School is nothing more than a daycare for the lower crust and the middle class is merging with. Maybe people will start talking and compare notes?

[pilsudski]

"Babbitt"might be the Great American Novel." The complaints made today of social dominance by a crass, commercially based class of consumers was as true in the early 1920's as it is today. What is so funny is that the discussions between Babbitt and his neighbor and the grage owner about Republican politics, sound just like the Republicans of today!

[GhostTracker]

It's not hate; there's just a feeling that it doesn't capture the "spirit" of the novel, in the way it's read. It's nothing personal.

[TheOldHacker]

Whoever is reading this keeps tripping over his own tongue. Is the word "minarets" so difficult to pronounce correctly (even in American English)?

[noelio]

NEIN!!!...lol...sounds more like a narrator from a doomed flights programme....top earner THAT voice...might replace Richard Attenborough in the BBC far flung(love them) nature programmes

[Aiden]

By and large an acceptable reading but the reader, Mike Vendetti, gets many words wrong. Some he changes, others he just mangles the pronunciation of. Nevertheless, thanks for making this great novel available on youtube.

[tokugawahisaka]

WIithin the first minute, there are already three mistakes

[Mezocosm]

This starts with lewis evangelizing skyscrapers and insulting traditional architecture. So what is this connection to the fountainhead?

[danielhabiger]

YmCA get paid for being for being a volunteer

[yoval]

פנינה לה פתחי יוטיוב

שלי ותהני מיום הולדתך

[GhostTracker]

No offense is meant but the narration isn't very good at all. imo. The novel has a wonderful rapid rhythm to it and it's not captured at *all* here. That piled on top of the frequent "stumbling over" words makes this a C-minus jobber at best, in my opinion.

[jimmeskimen]

God, learn to read. I spotted three errors in the first thirty seconds. Appalling.

[ARunawayTrain]

I know hes a highly regarded author and all but i absolutely cannot stand the way lewis writes, yes his descriptions are great but the story almost lags while he spends two pages describing random inconsequential bullshit in excessive verbiage.