I am happy that publishers updated the Audiobook for Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. The original was a male, and while I'm not usually against males narrating books told through teenage girl's points of view in general, for Flowers in the Attic a female voice makes the most sense.
The original narrator, Ed Kemper, was recording hundreds of audiobooks from California Medical Facility. He was a serial killer who said it gave him a good feeling to narrate classic audiobooks to help people after all the horrors he had done. Most of the prisoners now work on braille books and not much audio, but the history is interesting on this. I doubt many who listened to a lot of these classic audiobooks realized who was reading to them, especially considering the subject matter of Flowers in the Attic. Ed Kemper killed his mother and grandmother too, so him reading about a mother/grandmother killing their children is almost ironic.
"Kemper remains among the general population in prison and is considered a model prisoner. He was in charge of scheduling other inmates' appointments with psychiatrists and was an accomplished craftsman of ceramic cups.[57] He was also a prolific reader of books on tape for the blind; a 1987 Los Angeles Times article stated that he was the coordinator of the prison's program and had personally spent over 5,000 hours narrating books with several hundred completed recordings to his name.[61] He was retired from these positions in 2015, after he experienced a stroke and was declared medically disabled. He received his first rules violation report in 2016, for failing to provide a urine sample.[62]" -
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I didn't listen to audio back then and do not read braille. The history with this and the program at the prison is interesting. I know some wouldn't be comfortable with the narration, while others may not care of the narrator's history.