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I'm about two thirds of the way through listening to Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, narrated by Martin Jarvis. I read the book about 15 years ago and decided to listen to the audio version to refresh my memory before the Amazon Prime miniseries launches.
While the story is as good as I remembered (and the little jokes about Queen seem more timely now than ever), I am disappointed by Martin Jarvis. His regular narrator voice is acceptable, but his female characters are awful. Even worse, his portrayal of Adam Young, the 11-year-old Antichrist, is wretched. As written, Adam is bright, charismatic, and a natural leader of his little gang. Above all, he is a child. Yet Jarvis' stuffy, stilted reading makes him sound like Thurston Howell III. It makes me cringe every time I hear it.
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