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Originally Posted by ElspethB
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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I loved Martin Jarvis' narration of a
Just William book, but I can't remember the particulars.
I've just finished
Very Good, Jeeves read by Jonathan Cecil. It was a difficult adjustment but now it's official; Cecil has beat out Frederick Davidson as my favorite Wodehouse narrator. (And in part because his women's voices are not Davidson's strong point.)
I'm coming into the end zone with Mark Twain's
Life on the Mississippi read by Grover Gardner who's entirely persuasive as the voice of Twain. Twain can certainly turn a phrase, but the book is uneven; interesting segments are interspersed by dull ones and there are too many tall yarns for my taste. But then there are penetrating bits such as the analysis of the damage Sir Walter Scott did to the South that I find entirely persuasive.