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Old 08-29-2017, 04:49 PM   #23
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I'd be interested to hear how you think Newton did. You may remember I listened to Emma Thompson's reading of Turn of the Screw. She's a fantastic actress but she absolutely butchered the audiobook narration, so now I'm leery of famous actors narrating as a name 'get'. It could be that Thompson was just an outlier though.
Off hand, I can think of three books narrated by famous actors that I've listened to and they were all quite good: Thérèse Raquin by Kate Winslet, Heart of Darkness by Kenneth Branagh and Our Man in Havana by Jeremy Northam. The last two were book club selections, now that I think of it.
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