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Originally Posted by issybird
So it was past time for a fun romp, which I've achieved by listening to Sharpe's Havoc read by Patrick Tull, and oh, it's good to listen to Tull doing Sharpe again; it's like coming home. Frederick Davidson read my last Sharpe and much as I like him, he couldn't compare. Sharpe's Havoc is my fourth listen in the series and so far, it's shaping up to be the best yet. A welcome change after two lengthy non-fiction works.
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Sharpe's Havoc did live up to its promise; it's my favorite Sharpe thus far. And Patrick Tull is Sharpe to me; I'm sorry that he read relatively few of them. Frederick Davidson has the lion's share and there are also several by Steven Crossley. I have no objection to either gentleman, but it's still a letdown.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
One of my pet peeves is the failure of audiobooks to include afterwords and other backmatter. This material should be included, and it should be the listener's choice to skip it or listen to it, even if it's just a dry list of names of people the author is acknowledging.
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Yeah, the Sharpe books have an afterword discussing the historical background to the books, but it's not included in the audiobook. I get the ebooks from the OverDrive so it's not the end of the world, but it annoys.
I've started
Mrs. Adams in Winter by Michael O'Brien, read by Cassandra Campbell, an account of Louisa Catherine Adams's trip from St. Petersburg to rejoin her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris, during the winter of 1815. I'm quite charmed by its discursive style thus far.