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Originally Posted by issybird
I've been listening to Victorian novels this year and I'm loving them. I recently hit a snag, though, with a Thomas Hardy* novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes, read by Anna Bentinck. She was awful. She made the female protagonist sound like a ninny and the male sound like a dolt. I persevered until about the 15% point and I hated it so much I gave up. I plan to read the rest of the novel and it's already so much better.  |
Huh. Maybe it was a mismatch of narrator and material. I like Anna Bentinck; I've enjoyed her narrations of several suspense books (e.g.,
The Wicked Girls,
Behind Her Eyes).