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Originally Posted by issybird
I’m also listening to The End of the Ancient Word by Ferdinand Lot, read by Charlton Griffin, a prolific narrator of works about the classic world. It’s interesting but admittedly something of a slog. Griffin’s rather fruity delivery doesn’t do anything to enliven a stolid text.
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Whew! Finally finished. By the end, I’d bumped the speed up to 2X, just to get it done.
And now I’m listening to two lighter works: Balzac’s
Cousin Bette read by Kate Reading, which is very pleasant. It’s been a revelation to me how well 19th century novels work as audiobooks. I’m also listening to
Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh, read by the peerless Nadia May. It had been decades since I’d read any of the Roderick Alleyn books, and this my second in a short stretch. They’re perfect for the purpose, something to listen to in bed, but I can’t say I’ve been won over. The books in fact are highly entertaining in the set-up, but once the insufferable Alleyn shows up, they slow down to a crawl. I dislike him. I don’t need to like a protagonist, but it’s an issue when the character is written to be wonderful and not a louse but I don’t see him that way. At least this one, set in the Golden Age era of the 1930s, is easier to take than the first one. I expect 1930s’ era English cozies to be classist, but it grates when it’s the 1950s as in the first book I tried.
For the record:
The End of the Ancient World - Audible
Cousin Bette - Hoopla
Overture to Death - OverDrive