Giulia Lazzari, a Spy Detective Story by Somerset Maugham

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@jillal-fuhaid1763 5 ай бұрын

No one tells a tale better than Maugham ,& this gentleman delivers the stories brilliantly. Some readers grate on ones nerves but this one is soothing & convincing . ❤

@judiemueller2664 7 ай бұрын

So much incivility for what one has been entertained and edified at no cost whatsoever...

@littlebrookreader949 6 ай бұрын

Everything costs something . . . One way or another.

@Tinyflypie 2 сағат бұрын

Objecting to non human readers is perfectly civil

@secondstring 4 ай бұрын

Excellent. Don't expect a "happily ever after" story from Maugham. He relates real human tragedy like no one else.

@mariann1982 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful story, especially the end! What if the watch actually contained poison or some secret information...

@0909littlekitty 4 ай бұрын

Another brilliant story listed to while sewing cushion covers…excellent ending 😂

@faithsaffron7083 7 ай бұрын

Maugham’s exceptional genius read by a disembodied digitizer voice deadens and degrades the human mind, yet I cannot stop listening for fear I will miss hearing another wonderful story.

@clivejones1152 7 ай бұрын

"Disembodied digitizer". What's that ? A microphone to my ears. This has a strange rhythm but it's a human actor

@davidland1212 7 ай бұрын

Ridiculous comment! It’s definitely a human voice. Actually it’s read by the actor, Alex Jennings, and is part of the BBC’s Radio Collection.

@miarencrowsdaughter6434 7 ай бұрын

@@davidland1212 This one isn't Jennings. Jennings wouldn't read out 'asterisk asterisk asterisk' as other recordings with this voice on this channel have had.' (Also, I listened to the Jennings recording earlier this week on a different channel. Totally different tonal qualities.)

@dontaylor7315 7 ай бұрын

I've listened by now to this voice bot reading more than a dozen stories, probably more like two or three dozen, and I've got a trick for keeping it from being too distracting. I'm familiar enough with Maugham's writing that as the bot speaks I can see the text in my mind's eye even if I don't know the story. I even know more or less how he'd punctuate it. That way I can focus on the story not the voice.

@nancybillias303 6 ай бұрын

I agree. It’s really off-putting at times, and yet, the writing…

@novascheller5957 7 ай бұрын

Great twist at the end!

@donnagleewilliams1019 5 ай бұрын

This one can’t be used as a sleep story, because the pounding, dramatic music at the end WILL wake you.

@June-s3o 6 ай бұрын

Frankly I enjoy this it's an audiobook

@jillianstokoe4697 7 ай бұрын

Excellent! you can't think of everything.

@Grace.allovertheplace 7 ай бұрын

Hi thank you 🙏 What a rough end.

@martas9283 7 ай бұрын

Definitely not Ashenden's finest mission. Although in Gulia's position, I would rather have gone to jail than give the bastards what they wanted!

@dontaylor7315 7 ай бұрын

KZbin must hate this channel. I think there are 15 or 20 commercials, usually two per interruption. The strategy is clearly to break it up so badly that the listener can't ever settle into it. What a user-hostile medium.

@justaplainspokengirl 6 ай бұрын

get an ad-blocker

@dontaylor7315 6 ай бұрын

@@justaplainspokengirl I know I know...

@Failte630 6 ай бұрын

@dontaylor7315 I'm lucky in some way. I don't have an ad blocker but get little or no ads on this channel. Great story. I agree with all the anti-bot comments. But I do so enjoy listening to the stories.

@अस्मिरीति 6 ай бұрын

User- hostile such an appropriate term for the idiotic adverts selling windows/rentals / retirement homes- all sorts of listeners included! I am prepared to put up with such annoyances in exchange of my enjoyment of listening and enjoying such beautifully structured stories. Each character different, descriptive of such a wide range of humans. I wonder how gregarious SM must have been to have met some or all of the characters included in his stories.

@dontaylor7315 6 ай бұрын

@@अस्मिरीति He was well-traveled and I bet that as a writer he cultivated conversation with all sorts of people because you may never know what the other person's story is unless you can draw them out. I imagine Maugham saw the whole world as material.

@littlebrookreader949 4 ай бұрын

I think this is a human voice. Anyone know who it is? He’s the best!

@debbielangton8371 3 ай бұрын

My window view is nothing 🎉

@ruthojen 6 ай бұрын

Better than psychiatry

@jenford7078 7 ай бұрын

Another video with the Tourette's outbursts in it, doesn't anyone review these before posting them?

@Charles-oo8bq 7 ай бұрын

My favorite part is always the a.i. glitches 😅

@dontaylor7315 7 ай бұрын

"Tourette's outbursts?" I didn't notice anything resembling language of that sort. The nearest thing to it that I'm aware of is the line "She flung foul names at him."

@ginagabriel2613 7 ай бұрын

🙏👏👏👏👏💕

@tearyb 5 ай бұрын

As much as I enjoy these stories the one thing that irks me is the racial conototains contained herein. Just goes to show the hypocrisy that these colonialists had.

@SusanTaylor-x7y 3 ай бұрын

So what? 😀 it is the normal human British condition. Especially in Maughm’s time Something you have to accept inside a Maughm short story.

@tomosbon7347 2 ай бұрын

Get over it. Look really hard in the mirror and accept that you aren't perfect either.