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Originally Posted by issybird
This is a little embarrassing, but I'll share it. Sitting down to the beginning of this series evoked for me the times when I was an adolescent that I'd reread Gone with the Wind. I'd open the book with a happy inner sigh, looking forward to all the pleasures I knew were ahead of me. This was the same feeling.
I'm also switching among the same three versions as Charlie. Objectively speaking, I think Vance does a better Aubrey and Tull does a better Maturin. But where Charlie likes Tull's gravitas, I like Vance's humor. It's funnier when Vance reads it.
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I find both versions funny, though I think you're right that the Vance is more obviously so. But there's a certain scene in a later book when Jack and Stephen are trying to escape from France to Spain that may well be one of the funniest ever. I'm looking forward to listening to both versions then.
