Classics Under 6 Hours
By: William Trevor / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
ALL Yikes! -and- Good Cow! Basically? Typical William Trevor…
By: Henry James / Narrated By: Penelope Rawlins, Ben Elliot
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
The return of a favorite… yesssss!
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
Jolly decent, but it’s an odd odd ODD day when one has to say: Simon Vance is no Jonathan Cecil…!
By: E. B. White/ Foreword By: Melissa Sweet / Narrated By: Meryl Streep, January LaVoy, Kirby Heyborne, MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Tavia Gilbert, Dion Graham, Almarie Guerra, Johnny Heller, Lincoln Hoppe, Raymond Lee, Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo, Ray Porter, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Bahni Turpin, Julia Whelan
Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
ZOUNDS!!! Joyous performances, perfection in production! Sure to bring a tear or two to the uninitiated’s eye…!!!
Arkangel Shakespeare
By: William Shakespeare / Narrated By: Amanda Root, David Harewood, Roy Hudd
Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
It’s all a dream, right? I mean, is that why I fell asleep, like, SIX times…?!?
A New English Version
Translated By: Stephen Mitchell / Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
From a chick with absolutely noooo interest in cuneiform… Huzzah for Mitchell!
A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson / Dramatist: Libby Spurrier / Narrated By: Holliday Grainger, Clive Mantle, Carla Mendonça, Miranda Raison
Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
SUPERB production that starts whizbang sharp and then…? Scooby Doooo, where are youuuu?!?
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Uhm, not what I expected, but oddly grand.
By: Ray Bradbury / Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
Oh, if he could see us now… stuck in one of those cycles… HOPING to get to a new and better one
By: George Bernard Shaw / Narrated By: Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, Paul Merton, Peter Hall
Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
My first George Bernard Shaw? Dude, it must be St. Paddy’s Day…
By: Thornton Wilder / Narrated By: Sam Waterston
Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
Exquisitely narrated! Well-crafted! …BUT…
By: Ray Bradbury / Narrated By: Kirby Heyborne / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
Kirby Heyborne? Oops, sorry dude: Bronson Pinchot? Uhm, muuuuch better
By: Kurt Vonnegut / Narrated By: James Franco
Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
Awesome, in spite of the lackluster narration, but… So it goes…
Series: Jeeves and Wooster, Book 1
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
I can’t imagine ANYONE other than Jonathan Cecil as the voice of P.G. Wodehouse!!!
Stage Play
By: Choderlos de Laclos / Narrated By: Dominic West, Janet McTeer, Una Stubbs, Elaine Cassidy, Adjoa Andoh, Edward Holcroft, Morfydd Clark
Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
French noblemen with English accents? Yesssss… An abridgment? Hmmmm….
By: Jack London / Narrated By: John Lee
Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 10-26-07
What’s this? Not as desperately tragic as I’d once felt? Beautiful!
By: Fritz Leiber / Narrated By: Matt Armstrong
Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
Had a whole LOT of Yowza! in it… dunno, maybe tooooo much?
A Signature Performance by Tim Curry
By: Charles Dickens / Narrated By: Tim Curry
Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
Oops… Methinks I watched “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” waaaay too many times.
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1 (Publication order), Book 2 (Author’s preferred order)
By: C.S. Lewis / Narrated By: Michael York
Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
Such a joy! May I get to the next in the series soon? Pleeeeeease?!
By: Charles Eastman, Elaine Goddale Eastman / Narrated By: Walter Covell, Cindy Hardin Killavey
Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
Only 2 hours and 17 minutes? Boooooooo! I want more!!!
By: Robert Bloch / Narrated By: Paul Michael Garcia
Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
What a delight! The movie was brilliant, yes—but the audiobook adds depth
By: Takashi Hiraide / Narrated By: David Shih
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Abrupt ending doesn’t mar the elegance and sensitivity of this story
Series: Pye, Book 1
By: Eleanor Estes / Narrated By: Kate Forbes
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Again, I realize I’m not the intended audience, but still… >yaaaawn<
By: William H. Armstrong / Narrated By: Avery Brooks
Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
Brilliant narration of a story that’ll break your heart
By: Washington Irving / Narrated By: Anthony Heald
Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
The BEST audio version of the classic tale!
By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / Narrated By: Phoebe Fox, Rose Leslie, David Tennant, David Horovitch, James Wilby, Susan Wooldridge, Hannah Genesius
Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
Holy cow! Like nobody’s ever heard of “boundaries” before?!?
By: George Orwell / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Soooo harrowing it made my heart and soul hurt…!
By: Jorge Luis Borges / Translated By: Andrew Hurley / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
CERTAINLY it’s the translation! It CAN’T be that Borges is full of himself?!?
By: John Steinbeck / Narrated By: Gary Sinise
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Gary Sinise! What fantastic narration!