A wonderful book, pronunciation dreadful!

This is one of the best books on running I’ve come across, but the pronunciation of place names, Scottish words and more was dreadful! Why on earth wasn’t the narrator coached?

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Book good, pronunciation very bad!

Good well informed book on Scottish Hill Running, but seriously dodgy pronunciation of all hill names and areas.

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it's a no from me

I will probably buy the book, I just can't listen to the pronunciation which at times is awful at best. Good story worth completing but better read than heard.

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listen again and again...

I loved this, maybe those who didn't were looking for something else. For me I listen to it often, it is so interesting, I love his voice so calm and such great stories. I listen to it at bedtime, while walking or gardening.
It is so nice to listing to people doing amazing inspiring things but in gentle and relaxing way.

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Terrible/hilarious pronunciation of Scottish place names

As an ex Scottish team hill runner and someone who grew up in Lochaber , this book was of great interest. It’s extremely well written and really entertaining. You need to keep a sense of humour however when it comes to the narrator’s pronunciation of Scottish places, if you don’t you may, like me, find yourself receiving bewildered looks when you angrily shout random words like ‘It’s AVIEMORE!’ on busy trains ! I found myself wondering if someone deliberately gave the narrator the wrong pronunciations for funsies ? He tries so hard to roll the ‘r’s and gargle the ‘ochs’ whilst completely messing up some of the names that surely someone was having a laugh ?
Despite this it’s a wonderful book and I highly recommend reading ... but maybe not listening to it if the mispronunciation will offend !

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Vivid stories of mountain runners in Scotland

Inspiring stories, genuine passion for mountains and for hill running in scotland. makes me keen to go exploring.

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Should have read the book!

Fantastic recollection of Scottish Hill running folk lore. Should have read the book though as the pronunciation of some simple words and more complex Welsh and Scottish place names is really poor, which, for a book about Scotland, is inexcusable.

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Great book, poor pronunciation

An excellent book, but pronunciations of Scottish and Welsh names, and even some other terms such as plantar fasciitis have been attempted so poorly as to render them almost unintelligible. Some basic research into these would have been a good idea. It’s not just a couple of words, it’s something in every paragraph and really spoils the listening experience.

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So disapiinted

A born and bred Scot living in Scotland and a lover or hill running and the outdoor life this book was a perfect fit for me. Or so I thought.

The subject matter, the story and the experiences are all great. However, the audiobook was spoiled hugely by the narrator. The Scottish runners were all portrayed by the narrator trying to perform a Scottish accent. It resulted in a cartoon character portrayal of the language.

To make matters worse place names were continually mispronounced. I can accept that the Gaelic is not easy. I would pronounce those names incorrectly too, I'm sure. There is no excuse for place names in the English language being mispronounced, especially by a British narrator.

That aside the subject matter was interesting the peoples experiences and challenges they took on inspiring. Maybe the narration will not irritate a non Scot as much as it annoyed me. I listened to the whole book and have not returned it because I liked the literary content so buy it by all means. Please though, Amazon, do not have narrators doing accents when they lack the ability to do so. If that factor had been acknowledged it would have been 5 stars all round.

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Inspiring

I enjoyed this book on my fjellruns. It could have been even longer. Great listen!

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