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SteveK · 10-11-2010, 09:47 PM

bjones - The audio book recording of Shantaram from Audible is superb. The narrator is Humphrey Bower, who does an outstanding job with all the many voices and accents. He is from Australia, so his natural accent takes a bit of getting used to, but he is a superb narrator. Hopefully you have the unabridged version (43 hours) rather than the abridged version (18 hours).

Humphrey Bower is also the narrator for all of the Bryce Courtenay novels, which are also very good (and since you like long books, they're also quite lengthy). I actually purchased Shantaram because he is its narrator, though as it turns out I also very much enjoyed the novel.

SteveK

10-11-2010, 09:47 PM	#5
SteveK Addict Posts: 272 Karma: 1017902 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Kindle PW, PW2, Kindle3, Kobo Glo, tablets, phone	bjones - The audio book recording of Shantaram from Audible is superb. The narrator is Humphrey Bower, who does an outstanding job with all the many voices and accents. He is from Australia, so his natural accent takes a bit of getting used to, but he is a superb narrator. Hopefully you have the unabridged version (43 hours) rather than the abridged version (18 hours). Humphrey Bower is also the narrator for all of the Bryce Courtenay novels, which are also very good (and since you like long books, they're also quite lengthy). I actually purchased Shantaram because he is its narrator, though as it turns out I also very much enjoyed the novel. SteveK Last edited by SteveK; 10-11-2010 at 09:55 PM.