fyler
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Post by fyler on Sept 10, 2018 11:11:10 GMT
Audiobooks can live or die on the strength or weakness of their reader.
Who are some of your favourite readers, folks? Anyone absolutely spoiled an audiobook for you with their reading? Any books you've chosen simply because of the reader?
I'm asking having just spent an Audible credit on a book about Popes, more or less singularly because it's read by Michael Jayston.
I'm also listening to The Call Of Cthulu right now, but I'm reeeeally struggling with it, because it's read by William Roberts. Nothing wrong with William Roberts, love me some William Roberts, but he's my preferred reader of Bill Bryson books (Err...yes, even over Bryson himself), so it's forming a right old disconnect in my brain, having the voice of the avuncular travel and culture writer talk to me about formless creatures from the sea's depths and the mists of time before man. Tried a Dickens classic recently - A Tale Of Two Cities - read by The Man Who Would be Dickens, Simon Callow, and had to return it, and opt instead for a more workmanlike Martin Jarvis version.
So give us your thoughts on readers, folks - any strong recommendations or stuff to avoid like the audio plague?
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