Thanks, good to know! In fact, I think I even listened to the Northam too.

I would think actors who've already made a character theirs onscreen would do well, and neutrally, with a story. I think, with Thompson anyway, the feeling I got was that she wanted to 'do something different' than other narrators had with the story and 'make it her own'. This resulted in a histrionic mess. Narrators have to put some of themselves in a reading as they're forced to interpret character's voices and such, but still the best ones let the story speak for itself rather than purposely trying to 'put a new spin' on things. I think famous actors narrating would be in more danger of doing this, but to be fair I disliked Thompson's reading so much that that may just be confirmation bias!

ETA- I just realised another caveat is needed- it's famous actors narrating classic (probably public domain) books that already have many audiobook versions that I think may be most at risk of this.

The Man Who Folded Himself looks interesting, but I didn't vote for it because my library doesn't carry it, and I didn't want to spend the $10. I recommended that my library purchase it.

I began Jane Eyre last night and am enjoying it.

2014???

:D :D

Are all 11 of you who voted for Jane Eyre going to read and/or listen to it and participate in the discussion thread?

:rolleyes:

Are all you people who didn't vote for it and whose user name begins with J and ends with f, are you going to hold your breath, stamp your feet, and whinge.

:p

The thing is, we've had too many months where a winning book was voted for but a good number and not that many participated. It's time we try to deal with this.

No. I just like voting for things.

The discussion thread is here for Jane Eyre.