Unabridged Audiobook
So great to reread the classics.
Great novel, terrible narration. This production made me realize that I really dislike audiobooks that use different readers for different characters. I just want one narrator who is capable of pulling off successfully different voices, male and female. A novel is NOT a play! One narrator, one voice—the voice of the novel. A novel is one voice underlying all the voices of the characters. I found this production unbearable. Terrible attempts at dialect, if attempts were even made. The narrator who did Darl was especially bad. He made really no attempt at the dialect, sounded too old for the character, spoke monotonously, and VERY slowly. His pace added probably an unnecessary extra two hours to this reading, and undermines the pace of the novel. I gave up trying to give this reading a chance and abandoned it not too far into it. Listen to “Absalom, Absalom” instead.
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