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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I just finished reading Wuthering Heights, and here is the email I just sent to my daughter concerning it:
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I just finished Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontė, and now want everyone else in my world to read it. It was a marvelous tale of love and revenge centered upon Heathcliff and his thwarted love for Catherine. Heathcliff is a boy done wrong, and it warps his personality so extensively that, as an adult, no one trapped within his sphere of influence remains unscathed.
I read this as an audiobook from Librivox.com. If you decide to download it from them (it's free, no strings attached) I HIGHLY recommend version 2 narrated by Ruth Golding. She's a great narrator, and if you know anything about Librivox, you know that isn't always the case. (In their defense, the site is run by volunteers and it would be wrong to complain too loudly about something that is free.)
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Tom, I'm tickled to read your response to
Wuthering Heights, one of my all-time favorite novels, but one I haven't reread in literally decades (after having darn near memorized it in my adolescence). I'm so glad to know that jaded age can have the same response. I've got a copy in my Audible account and mean to listen to it, eventually - possibly next year, when I think one of my challenges will be to reread old favorites. Based on such a strong recommendation, I shall give Golding a try before I settle on my choice. And I
have preferred at least one Lbrivox book (
The Prisoner of Zenda) to my Audible purchase.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Currently listening to Sharpe's Eagle, read by Frederick Davidson (David Case). He's good! Of course, we knew that. But I think you're right - not quite as good as Patrick Tull. Unfortunately, Patrick Tull didn't do all of them, so we must make do. But having David Case as a fallback is certainly not _that_ difficult.  |
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that difficult, but.... It was also
Sharpe's Eagles which was a letdown for me. I think it's partially that I didn't like as much the novel (one of the earlier ones in the written chronology, perhaps before Cornwell hit his stride), but also I didn't like Davidson as much as Tull.
Make do, certainly, since we have no alternative. Even if it feels a bit like having to listen to Tull read Aubrey/Maturin instead of Vance.
I kid, of course; but it's nice that in the case of A/M, we can stick with our preferred narrator.*
*Or could! Now that the Vance renditions are no longer available to buy. Very fortunately,
someone** coerced me into buying all of the Vance versions.
**Thank you!