For those of you who are not aware, some book publishers produce audio books in two different versions - Abridged and Unabridged.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Unabridged vs. Abridged Audio Books
When shopping for audio books this holiday season, make sure you know what you are buying.
For those of you who are not aware, some book publishers produce audio books in two different versions - Abridged and Unabridged.
Check out my newest video where I explain the difference between Unabridged and Abridged audio books.
For those of you who are not aware, some book publishers produce audio books in two different versions - Abridged and Unabridged.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Review of Inferno by Dan Brown read by Paul Michael
This review will be a combination of the book and narration by Paul Michael. Beware this review does include some possible spoilers.
Ever since 2003 when I first listened to The DaVinci Code, read by Paul Michael, I have been a fan of Dan Brown's thrillers featuring the Professor Robert Langdon. Starting with "The DaVinci Code", then "Angels and Demons" and continuing with "The Lost Symbol", (I know I did the first two in reverse chronological order but it didn't affect the story either way) the author grabbed my attention with intricate set-ups, well-defined characters, intriguing plots while weaving tales full of history, science and symbols. His books always left me hungry for more.
As soon as I heard that Dan Brown was bringing back Robert Langdon for his next book, my inner history buff started to get a tingle. His newest novel was titled Inferno and was going to revolve Dante Alighieri's Inferno.
Sadly after spending 17 hours listening to "Inferno", I think the author has run out of ideas.
The Bad Stuff:
1. This book starts off with the suicide of a scientist taking a leap from a tall building. Without much character build-up, his death, I felt was a cheap way to hook the audience. There was no cryptic message written in blood in the Louvre (Da Vinci Code) or scorching of skin symbol of the Illuminati, (Angels and Demons).
2.Usually the introduction of Professor Langdon is because his expertise is needed to help solve a mystery. In this book he is the mystery. He wakes up in a hospital room in Florence, Italy with no recollection of the past two days and a bullet wound to his head. After a near fatal attempt to kill him again, he escapes with the help of a young female doctor. Sounds interesting enough, you say. Beware fellow listeners as this book is full of twist and turns. Some of which are not the least bit interesting, others are so far-fetched that Mr. Brown was grasping at straws as to how to make the plot lines all fit together.
3.The Provost, The Secret Organization and the Video.
One character, actually anything having to do with the Provost, really bothered me. He is the head of an organization that operates out of a large boat moored off the coast of Italy. The organizations purpose is to help move people off the grid. For a large fee, of course. I guess since there was no Illuminati, or Masons, the author needed to create a mysterious all powerful organization. It just did not work for me.
A large piece of the mystery of this book comes from a video this organization has received. A video that is played and reviewed more times throughout the book than seems necessary. If you have listened to the first description of the video in one chapter, you really do not have to hear the description again two chapters later, and then four chapters after that. I think I heard the description of the video a total of seven times. I think it was to build a sense of dread and foreboding but to me its overkill and just wasted time.
4.The method of by which everything is explained at the end and the explanation itself of what just went on with Langdon and all the characters involved seemed too contrite. Everything just seemed to work itself out with not enough tension or payoff at the end.
These are just a few of the issues I had with the book without giving away too much of the story.
The Good Stuff
1. The narrator, Paul Michael, does a great job bringing the characters to life. He is a master at choosing the right accent for making the characters have their own individual personalities. He has been the reader for all four Robert Langdon books. So, to me he is Robert Langdon.
2. The moral of this story is something that I never gave much thought about until listening to this book. I think that Dan Brown has touched on a topic that needs to be addressed. For that alone I think the book does have some merit.
Overall I would have to say, for me, it is the weakest of the four Robert Langdon books. I think it might be time to leave Robert Langdon at Harvard and try someone new.
My overall ranking of the books featuring Robert Langdon series would be:
1.Angels and Demons
2.DaVinci Code
3.The Lost Symbol
4.Inferno
Let me know your thoughts.
If you want to listen to any of the Dan Brown books featuring Robert Langdon, plus his other two lesser known books "Digital Fortress" and "Deception Point", check out them out on my website www.TalkingBooksPlus.com.
Ever since 2003 when I first listened to The DaVinci Code, read by Paul Michael, I have been a fan of Dan Brown's thrillers featuring the Professor Robert Langdon. Starting with "The DaVinci Code", then "Angels and Demons" and continuing with "The Lost Symbol", (I know I did the first two in reverse chronological order but it didn't affect the story either way) the author grabbed my attention with intricate set-ups, well-defined characters, intriguing plots while weaving tales full of history, science and symbols. His books always left me hungry for more.
As soon as I heard that Dan Brown was bringing back Robert Langdon for his next book, my inner history buff started to get a tingle. His newest novel was titled Inferno and was going to revolve Dante Alighieri's Inferno.
Sadly after spending 17 hours listening to "Inferno", I think the author has run out of ideas.
The Bad Stuff:
1. This book starts off with the suicide of a scientist taking a leap from a tall building. Without much character build-up, his death, I felt was a cheap way to hook the audience. There was no cryptic message written in blood in the Louvre (Da Vinci Code) or scorching of skin symbol of the Illuminati, (Angels and Demons).
2.Usually the introduction of Professor Langdon is because his expertise is needed to help solve a mystery. In this book he is the mystery. He wakes up in a hospital room in Florence, Italy with no recollection of the past two days and a bullet wound to his head. After a near fatal attempt to kill him again, he escapes with the help of a young female doctor. Sounds interesting enough, you say. Beware fellow listeners as this book is full of twist and turns. Some of which are not the least bit interesting, others are so far-fetched that Mr. Brown was grasping at straws as to how to make the plot lines all fit together.
3.The Provost, The Secret Organization and the Video.
One character, actually anything having to do with the Provost, really bothered me. He is the head of an organization that operates out of a large boat moored off the coast of Italy. The organizations purpose is to help move people off the grid. For a large fee, of course. I guess since there was no Illuminati, or Masons, the author needed to create a mysterious all powerful organization. It just did not work for me.
A large piece of the mystery of this book comes from a video this organization has received. A video that is played and reviewed more times throughout the book than seems necessary. If you have listened to the first description of the video in one chapter, you really do not have to hear the description again two chapters later, and then four chapters after that. I think I heard the description of the video a total of seven times. I think it was to build a sense of dread and foreboding but to me its overkill and just wasted time.
4.The method of by which everything is explained at the end and the explanation itself of what just went on with Langdon and all the characters involved seemed too contrite. Everything just seemed to work itself out with not enough tension or payoff at the end.
These are just a few of the issues I had with the book without giving away too much of the story.
The Good Stuff
1. The narrator, Paul Michael, does a great job bringing the characters to life. He is a master at choosing the right accent for making the characters have their own individual personalities. He has been the reader for all four Robert Langdon books. So, to me he is Robert Langdon.
2. The moral of this story is something that I never gave much thought about until listening to this book. I think that Dan Brown has touched on a topic that needs to be addressed. For that alone I think the book does have some merit.
Overall I would have to say, for me, it is the weakest of the four Robert Langdon books. I think it might be time to leave Robert Langdon at Harvard and try someone new.
My overall ranking of the books featuring Robert Langdon series would be:
1.Angels and Demons
2.DaVinci Code
3.The Lost Symbol
4.Inferno
Let me know your thoughts.
If you want to listen to any of the Dan Brown books featuring Robert Langdon, plus his other two lesser known books "Digital Fortress" and "Deception Point", check out them out on my website www.TalkingBooksPlus.com.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker read by Emily Janice Card
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The Age of Miracles is a story told through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl named Julia as her family and friends living in a California suburb adjust to the earths rotation slowing down.
Before starting the book I wondered how the author would handle this unique plot device. It's not as if the world slows down everyday. (Though there are days when I wish it would). So I was intrigued to find out how she would handle the event. How it would effect the world, the people and the storyline. Will there be aliens, meteors, a disaster of 2012 magnitude? No, nothing like that.
As you quickly learn from Julia, "The Slowing" just started happening. The days and nights grow longer and no real reason is given. The author let's you find out from T.V. reports and minor events how the world slowing down affects everyone on the planet in a big picture sort-of-way.
The true essence of the book though is seeing the change happening through Julia's eyes. You feel what she is going through and it makes you care about her and the people in her life.
I'm a 52 year old male and have never been an 11-year old girl, but the author's writing style as well as the narration by Emily Janice Card (who I'll talk about a little later), put me inside Julia's head. Listening to the book and hearing Julia's story, told in the first-person narrative made me smile, laugh, cringe (when she tries on her first bra at a store) and even a little frightened as the events in her life unfold around the changes in the world caused by the slowing. To me, great writing is shown when you can make me feel something that stays with me long after the book is over.
On a personal note I do have two sisters that I grew up with. Listening to Julia talk about her feelings, about how she felt when friends leave, experiencing the pangs of finding your first love and dealing with parents adjusting, sometimes in a negative way, to the events of the world made me think about my sisters and how they would handled such things. I now have a deeper insight into what they may have gone through during their adolescence.
Real emotions run throughout this book as Julia deals with possible world ending doom as well as dreading her impending 12th birthday. Like life, this book it is filled with highs and lows and never knowing why things happen and learning how to deal with it.
Like any audio book, it lives or dies on the strength of the reader - in this case, Emily Janice Card. This is my first time listening to her and she does an outstanding job telling Julia's story. She becomes Julia, handling the telling of her story as an adult in a simple pleasing voice but then lightens up her voice when Julia is speaking. It is as if she recalls how she spoke at that age and brought it back to let us hear it. Evey little inflection and nuance is perfect and delivers emotional reading that for me made the characters come alive. Besides this book, she has also narrated a recent book by Lisa Gardner titled The Neighbor.
I highly recommend listening to The Age of Miracles and consider it one of the best audio books of 2012.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Top Five Motivational Audio Books
Ever have one of those days when you just want to throw the alarm clock against the wall? You wake up and realize that another day has come and all you want to do is crawl back under the covers and let sleep take you away from the reality that is your life?
You get up and think that there's got to be more to life but have no idea how to find it. Your life is all about doing the same thing day after day like a hamster running on the wheel of life. Just spinning and spinning with no way to get off without tumbling down the deep black hole of depression.
Well, step off that hamster wheel, and jump into your car and start using the time in your car as a "University on Wheels".
With that said, here are my Top 5 Motivational audio books that have the ability to lift you up and send you off in the right direction.
A Healthy Dose of Motivation - Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
This audio book includes two books by the authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books - Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. The books are "The Aladdin Factor" and "Dare to Win".
The Aladdin Factor describes the eight reasons people won't ask for what they want, the ten benefits of asking, who to ask, what to ask for, how to deal with rejection, and much more.
At times the audio edition comes off as a bit hokey with a booming voice sounding "Genie" opening each chapter with a question for the listener (i.e : Aladdin). I did find the information useful for people who have trouble getting what they want out of life. On the downside, the authors sometimes reference other books and authors, which I found distracting and can take away from the message. The book was written in 1995, but the challenges it covers and the solutions they give are still relevant today.
In Dare to Win, the authors explain how to overcome the fear that may be holding you back. In this audio, you'll learn to affirm your self-worth, and discover your true purpose and learn to fulfill it. Personal happiness, creative fulfillment, professional success, and freedom from fear await you.
You get up and think that there's got to be more to life but have no idea how to find it. Your life is all about doing the same thing day after day like a hamster running on the wheel of life. Just spinning and spinning with no way to get off without tumbling down the deep black hole of depression.
Well, step off that hamster wheel, and jump into your car and start using the time in your car as a "University on Wheels".
With that said, here are my Top 5 Motivational audio books that have the ability to lift you up and send you off in the right direction.
A Healthy Dose of Motivation - Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
This audio book includes two books by the authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books - Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. The books are "The Aladdin Factor" and "Dare to Win".
The Aladdin Factor describes the eight reasons people won't ask for what they want, the ten benefits of asking, who to ask, what to ask for, how to deal with rejection, and much more.
At times the audio edition comes off as a bit hokey with a booming voice sounding "Genie" opening each chapter with a question for the listener (i.e : Aladdin). I did find the information useful for people who have trouble getting what they want out of life. On the downside, the authors sometimes reference other books and authors, which I found distracting and can take away from the message. The book was written in 1995, but the challenges it covers and the solutions they give are still relevant today.
In Dare to Win, the authors explain how to overcome the fear that may be holding you back. In this audio, you'll learn to affirm your self-worth, and discover your true purpose and learn to fulfill it. Personal happiness, creative fulfillment, professional success, and freedom from fear await you.
Based around the classic Napoleon Hill principle "whatever man can
conceive and believe: he can achieve", Dare to Win helps the reader understand
how this principle actually works and offers strategies to help train your
subconscious to help you achieve all the things you consciously want.
Most of us have a subconscious mind that is not being very conducive to us
becoming successful in our chosen endeavors. Dare to Win
offers help by providing techniques to help focus your entire energies towards
achieving those things you want to achieve. Affirmations and visualization form
the focus of these techniques.
The authors read their own book and alternate the narration. Each voice is distinct and easy to listen to. Rent A Healthy Dose of Motivation at TalkingBooksPlus.comWednesday, May 16, 2012
Top Five Worst Audio Book Readers
Experienced listeners of audio books have basically one requirement when it comes to picking a book up and listening to it. The reader has to be able to make the book come alive. Nobody wants to be listening to a book and within the first ten minutes find that their mind starts to wander. You know the type of boring reader. A reader who never changes their voice for the characters. One who reads a book so slowly or without any interest in making the characters distinct that it sounds like they are reading the book to their kids.
So after listening to hundreds of audio books I thought I would list my Top Five Worst Audio Book readers/narrators. Please note these are completely my opinion and just do not fit my qualifications for a great listen. I would love to hear from anyone else who might want to weigh in on the discussion.
5. Stephen King - Everyone knows the "Master of Horror" has been writing scary stories since "Carrie" in 1975. Did you know he also is a big fan of audio books? Check out this article from Entertainment Weekly from 2007. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1551492,00.html.
Now you can be a big fan of audio books, as I am, but Mr. King, you need to know your limitations. I have tried to listen to his short story collection called Blood and Smoke several times.
Each time I try to listen to this collection of three stories, one specifically titled "1408" from which a John Cusack movie was based on, I get stuck on his bland, New England-lilted voice trying too hard to make the stories sound interesting. It was like he was reading the stories out-loud to himself as if he was proof-reading his book before sending it off to the printer.
My advice to Mr. King write, don't speak.
4. Elliot Gould - Here is a case of a T.V. and movie actor, (you'll now him from his roles in the Ocean's Eleven movies with George Clooney and Monica's father in the T.V. show "Friends") who seems not be able to use his acting skills when narrating audio books.
He is the voice of Philip Marlowe, the 1930's detective featured in an eight books series including The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely written by Raymond Chandler.
There's nothing particularly wrong with his voice. He reads clearly enough but each character, whether male or female, sounds exactly the same. There are no accents, no trying to raising his pitch to sound female. He does try to change the speed of his delivery to make the characters sound different but it is sometimes inconsistent and makes you wonder if you missed something. Having read the stories years ago, I was hoping to re-listen to them to enjoy Chandler's descriptive places and characters during 1930's Los Angeles. Instead I end up turning it off and will read them again with hopefully my own voice in my head.
3. Michael Prichard - Though he has been reading audio books for Books on Tape for the past twenty years, for my liking his voice comes across hard and again with no change in his voice for the characters. Now, granted Books on Tape produces their audio books for libraries and not for retail purchase but even people getting their books from libraries do not deserve to be bored to tears with his reading of books by Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Robert B. Parker.
2. Debi Masar & Lori Petty reading Janet Evanovich
Both of these little-known actresses were hired to narrate Abridged versions of the early Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" books.
Lori Petty reads books One for the Money, Two for the Dough and Three to Get Deadly.
Debi Masar reads Four to Score, High Five and Hot Six.
It is obvious to me why the publisher of the abridged audio thought they would make good readers as Stephanie Plum. For those who don't know who Stephenie Plum is, she is a thirty-ish woman from New Jersey who for lack of a better job finds work as a bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey. Both the actresses have voices that radiate an east coast accent. Though they both do come across as a flawless Stephenie Plum, all the other characters from Stephenie's parents to Grandma Mauser and Lula, street-wise hooker all come across weak and without the right kind of inflections to make the characters come alive. Listening to their narration compared to C.J Critt or Lorelei King, who have read the Unabridged editions is like night and day.
1. Gloria Vanderbuilt reading her own book "Obssession".
In 2009, fashion icon, socialite, heiress, actress and author Gloria Vanderbuilt wrote a book titled "Obsession". This is an erotic novel not for the faint hearted. At the age of 84, the author seems to have saved up a lot of weird sexual fantasies and just had to put them on the printerd page.
Somehow the book received a few positive reviews:
“In her new novel, Gloria Vanderbilt has created a remarkable tapestry of human passion--an interior world of highly charged erotic mysteries that teasingly suggest, but ever elude, decoding. OBSESSION is a poetic tale on the nature of possession and obsession.” (Joyce Carol Oates )
“Warmth and zest and cheekiness...OBSESSION is erotica even your grandmother can love.” (The Daily Beast )
Now what has this book have to do with the Top Five Worst Audio Book Readers?
It turns out there was an audio edition released with the hardback book and it was read by Ms. Vanderbuilt herself. Due to the somewhat positive feedback my wife and I decided to give the book a listen while we went on a short drive. Let's just say we will never be the same again.
At 84 years old, Ms. Vanderbuilt was saying words that should never, ever come out of a senior citizens mouth. It was kind of scary - kept getting visuals of Grandma that no Grandchild should ever experience. The main characters were in their thirties and forties and all I kept hearing was a grandmother describing a young woman's sexual exploration and private orgasmic moments. About a third of the way through the first CD I had to wonder how much money did she pay Harper Collins to let her read her own book. She never changed her voice for the characters and at one point she moaned as one of the female characters filled with passion that my wife and I ending up laughing so hard we had to shut the CD off.
Here is a an audio sample of her reading the first 2 minutes of the book. This is the G-rated portion of the book. http://files.harpercollins.com/AudioFile/9780061780110.mp3
Would the book have been better if a younger woman would have narrarated the story? Possibly, but we will never know.
I would love to hear any comments or other suggestions as to who might need to be included on the lists.
So after listening to hundreds of audio books I thought I would list my Top Five Worst Audio Book readers/narrators. Please note these are completely my opinion and just do not fit my qualifications for a great listen. I would love to hear from anyone else who might want to weigh in on the discussion.
5. Stephen King - Everyone knows the "Master of Horror" has been writing scary stories since "Carrie" in 1975. Did you know he also is a big fan of audio books? Check out this article from Entertainment Weekly from 2007. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1551492,00.html.
Now you can be a big fan of audio books, as I am, but Mr. King, you need to know your limitations. I have tried to listen to his short story collection called Blood and Smoke several times.
My advice to Mr. King write, don't speak.
4. Elliot Gould - Here is a case of a T.V. and movie actor, (you'll now him from his roles in the Ocean's Eleven movies with George Clooney and Monica's father in the T.V. show "Friends") who seems not be able to use his acting skills when narrating audio books.
3. Michael Prichard - Though he has been reading audio books for Books on Tape for the past twenty years, for my liking his voice comes across hard and again with no change in his voice for the characters. Now, granted Books on Tape produces their audio books for libraries and not for retail purchase but even people getting their books from libraries do not deserve to be bored to tears with his reading of books by Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and Robert B. Parker.
2. Debi Masar & Lori Petty reading Janet Evanovich
Both of these little-known actresses were hired to narrate Abridged versions of the early Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" books.
Lori Petty reads books One for the Money, Two for the Dough and Three to Get Deadly.
Debi Masar reads Four to Score, High Five and Hot Six.
It is obvious to me why the publisher of the abridged audio thought they would make good readers as Stephanie Plum. For those who don't know who Stephenie Plum is, she is a thirty-ish woman from New Jersey who for lack of a better job finds work as a bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey. Both the actresses have voices that radiate an east coast accent. Though they both do come across as a flawless Stephenie Plum, all the other characters from Stephenie's parents to Grandma Mauser and Lula, street-wise hooker all come across weak and without the right kind of inflections to make the characters come alive. Listening to their narration compared to C.J Critt or Lorelei King, who have read the Unabridged editions is like night and day.
1. Gloria Vanderbuilt reading her own book "Obssession".
In 2009, fashion icon, socialite, heiress, actress and author Gloria Vanderbuilt wrote a book titled "Obsession". This is an erotic novel not for the faint hearted. At the age of 84, the author seems to have saved up a lot of weird sexual fantasies and just had to put them on the printerd page.
Somehow the book received a few positive reviews:
“In her new novel, Gloria Vanderbilt has created a remarkable tapestry of human passion--an interior world of highly charged erotic mysteries that teasingly suggest, but ever elude, decoding. OBSESSION is a poetic tale on the nature of possession and obsession.” (Joyce Carol Oates )
“Warmth and zest and cheekiness...OBSESSION is erotica even your grandmother can love.” (The Daily Beast )
Now what has this book have to do with the Top Five Worst Audio Book Readers?
It turns out there was an audio edition released with the hardback book and it was read by Ms. Vanderbuilt herself. Due to the somewhat positive feedback my wife and I decided to give the book a listen while we went on a short drive. Let's just say we will never be the same again.
At 84 years old, Ms. Vanderbuilt was saying words that should never, ever come out of a senior citizens mouth. It was kind of scary - kept getting visuals of Grandma that no Grandchild should ever experience. The main characters were in their thirties and forties and all I kept hearing was a grandmother describing a young woman's sexual exploration and private orgasmic moments. About a third of the way through the first CD I had to wonder how much money did she pay Harper Collins to let her read her own book. She never changed her voice for the characters and at one point she moaned as one of the female characters filled with passion that my wife and I ending up laughing so hard we had to shut the CD off.
Here is a an audio sample of her reading the first 2 minutes of the book. This is the G-rated portion of the book. http://files.harpercollins.com/AudioFile/9780061780110.mp3
Would the book have been better if a younger woman would have narrarated the story? Possibly, but we will never know.
I would love to hear any comments or other suggestions as to who might need to be included on the lists.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai, Read by Emily Bauer
First off, let me say that I love books about books. From biographies of my favorite authors to John Dunning's Bookman mysteries my inner book lover gets an extra high when listening (or reading) books about books. So when I read the back cover blurb of the book "The Borrower" I was immediately intrigued. It read "In This Delightful, Funny, and Moving First Novel, A Librarian and a Young Boy Obsessed with Reading Take to the Road". I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover (or marketing blurb) but this audio book had me placing the first CD in my player and wanting it to be great. I was not disappointed.
Starting off in Hannibal, Missouri (a nod to Mark Twain) Lucy Hull, the young librarian finds herself trying to help her favorite ten-year old patron Ian Drake run away from home. Ian is addicted to reading but enlists Lucy's help to smuggle books past his ultra-conservative mother. What starts off as helping a young boy expand his mind through books, eventually turns into being kidnapped by the same young boy. Lucy and Ian embark on a improvised journey that takes them from Missouri to Chicago, Canada and Vermont. Unique characters abound in this story from Lucy's Russian father to a boyfriend who seems to be hiding in the shadows. Mid-way through you ask yourself "is it just Ian who is running away?"
This book features plenty of book references and a fast moving plot of two souls on the run trying to figure out where to go next and who's playing who. This is not your usual kidnapping story, there is no gun play or high stakes chase. Told from Lucy's point of view, it is humorous at times, but it does ask some serious questions about the responsibilities of individuals and the right of parents to control a child's craving for knowledge in books. There is also an underlying story of Ian's sexuality, that from a ten years-old standpoint is confusing, but high on the mother's list of things to control.
Reader Emily Bauer does a fantastic job handling all the major and minor characters. Her voice for Lucy has a perfect blend of naivete and youth that makes her real. As you hear her verbalize Lucy's inner thoughts you can understand why she makes some of her more unusual decisions. This is one of the reasons I love listening to audio books. My imagination could never fill-in the voices of a twenty-something female and a ten-year old boy the way that Emily Bauer does. Along with Lucy and Ian, she also expertly performs both male and female characters including the Russian father.
The one downside of the book is that it does stretch believability regarding the search for the missing Ian. But just sit back and enjoy the ride.
The Borrower written by Rebecca Makkai and read by Emily Bauer. Published in 2011 by Highbridge Audio. 10.5 Hours on 8 CD's.
Want to learn more about The Borrower or listen to it, check it out at:
http://www.talkingbooksplus.com/Audiobooks/CatDetail.php?recordID=13149
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