By: William Trevor / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
ALL Yikes! -and- Good Cow! Basically? Typical William Trevor…
Last Stories
The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James / Narrated By: Penelope Rawlins, Ben Elliot
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
The return of a favorite… yesssss!
Frozen Assets
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…!
Charlotte's Web
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…!!!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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…?!?
Gilgamesh
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!
Henrietta & Eleanor
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?!?
A Night to Remember
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Uhm, not what I expected, but oddly grand.
Fahrenheit 451
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
Man and Superman
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…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Halloween Tree
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
Slaughterhouse-Five
By: Kurt Vonnegut / Narrated By: James Franco
Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
Awesome, in spite of the lackluster narration, but… So it goes…
My Man Jeeves
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!!!
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Call of the Wild
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!
Night of the Long Knives
A Christmas Carol
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.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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?!