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View Poll Results: What are your choices for the September Book Club book?
She by H. Rider Haggard 3 15.79%
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold 4 21.05%
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. 11 57.89%
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Series Book 1) by Dorothy L. Sayers 7 36.84%
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley 4 21.05%
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 2 10.53%
The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer 4 21.05%
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Old 08-30-2017, 04:29 AM   #31
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Off hand, I can think of three books narrated by famous actors that I've listened to and they were all quite good: Thérèse Raquin by Kate Winslet, Heart of Darkness by Kenneth Branagh and Our Man in Havana by Jeremy Northam. The last two were book club selections, now that I think of it.
Thanks, good to know! In fact, I think I even listened to the Northam too.

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Other examples -- the Robert B. Parker "Spenser" books, narrated by Joe Montegna, and the last few Harry Bosch books from Michael Connelly, narrated by Titus Welliver. Interestingly, in both cases, the narrators were also the actors who played the roles in the dramatizations of the series.
I would think actors who've already made a character theirs onscreen would do well, and neutrally, with a story. I think, with Thompson anyway, the feeling I got was that she wanted to 'do something different' than other narrators had with the story and 'make it her own'. This resulted in a histrionic mess. Narrators have to put some of themselves in a reading as they're forced to interpret character's voices and such, but still the best ones let the story speak for itself rather than purposely trying to 'put a new spin' on things. I think famous actors narrating would be in more danger of doing this, but to be fair I disliked Thompson's reading so much that that may just be confirmation bias!

ETA- I just realised another caveat is needed- it's famous actors narrating classic (probably public domain) books that already have many audiobook versions that I think may be most at risk of this.
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Old 08-30-2017, 01:51 PM   #32
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The Man Who Folded Himself looks interesting, but I didn't vote for it because my library doesn't carry it, and I didn't want to spend the $10. I recommended that my library purchase it.

I began Jane Eyre last night and am enjoying it.
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Old 08-30-2017, 05:02 PM   #33
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Old 08-31-2017, 12:52 PM   #34
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Are all 11 of you who voted for Jane Eyre going to read and/or listen to it and participate in the discussion thread?
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Are all 11 of you who voted for Jane Eyre going to read and/or listen to it and participate in the discussion thread?
Are all you people who didn't vote for it and whose user name begins with J and ends with f, are you going to hold your breath, stamp your feet, and whinge.

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Are all you people who didn't vote for it and whose user name begins with J and ends with f, going to hold your breath, stamp your feet, and whinge.
The thing is, we've had too many months where a winning book was voted for but a good number and not that many participated. It's time we try to deal with this.
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