The Waste Land

You get a lot of bang for your buck with this app, including a filmed reading of the poem by Fiona Shaw and readings by many other famous actors such ad Alec Guiness. In may come as a surprise to learn T S Eliot‘s own oft cited reading of the wasteland is actually not that good as he completely fails to convey the many different voices who are speaking in the poem. My advice: listen to a proper actor reading it and get this app

This is just lame! What's the Retina screen especially good for? Reading? What's this app? A reading app! Don't see how you can ignore the retina display... Advise against buying! Nice content that looks blurr as hell!

When you touch on a highlighted part, the note does not pop up. You have to touch around the highlighted part—left, right, above, below and everywhere in between—to get the note to pop up. Very frustrating! Sent a support note to the devs. Let’s see whether and how soon they will fix it. iPad OS 16.3.1; iPad Air 5th gen. Other than the “Perspectives” section, the content seems to be OK.

Grateful for this. And would love to see more like it.

I have watched Fiona Shaw's performance at least a dozen times and am always floored.

This app offers a model for presenting literary works in all their richness on a mobile device. I love the readings by several actors, and the scholarly interpretations deepen our appreciation. Touch press has shown us what can be done, both with this app and the one on Shakespeare's sonnets. I have been waiting, waiting, waiting, wandering through the vast waste land of the App Store looking for more apps that illuminate and present literary works in this way. Please, I will buy them.

This app made the poem come alive for me, especially the video. it makes full use of the iPad's capabilities. I would love to see more of the same with the Four Quartets and other works of literature...

Sound stopped working after about a day. Very disappointing, felt like I threw my money away.

Audio will to work!

I am reviewing this poem, again, with a friend, and this app with its multiple readings and perspectives gives such a richness to the experience. I also appreciate being able to add my notes alongside.