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I listened to Grace Metalious's Peyton Place. I generally liked Tim O'Connor's narration, though I do wonder why "they" decided on a male narrator, when there are so many female characters and voices in the story--Mia Farrow would have been a fun choice for narrator. But Tim O'Connor was fine; he didn't try to do too much with the voices but it was quite clear who was speaking.
I had read Peyton Place before, but after seeing the movie countless times, I'd forgotten how vastly different the movie version was from the novel, so I was frequently surprised. At the conclusion of the novel, the audiobook includes a commentary (about an hour long) on the book as a social phenomenon in its day. I don't know that I agree with the analysis of what Peyton Place says about patriarchal society and feminism, but it was certainly interesting, and I'm glad I didn't skip it.
Overall, it was quite satisfying. While the subject matter is often lurid, it's rarely graphic, and it's quite well written.
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