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Originally Posted by issybird
I was kidding, but in truth I detested Bryson's reading the one time I tried him, for One Summer. I said this at the time in my Goodreads review:
That was three years ago and it's an impression that's lingered; when I saw your question my thought was, "that prissy and affected voice and trans-Atlantic accent" before I looked at Goodreads.
Bryson's a narrator who gets widely divergent reactions on the love/hate spectrum. I can think of only Scott Brick as engendering similarly disparate responses.
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I've not listened to One Summer but I really enjoyed his narration for
Notes from a Small Island and
A Walk in the Woods. In fact, I've got to the point where I'm disappointed if he's not reading his own work. I guess it's what in the UK we call a Marmite thing - you either love it or hate it. Not sure you have Marmite in the USA?