I agree - Middlemarch by Juliet Stevenson was wonderful but my favourite audiobook by far, and only recently finished, was Lonesome Dove narrated by Lee Horsley. I travelled every inch of the way from Texas to Montana and even after 30-something hours I didn't want it to end. Primarily because of the narration, but also the wonderful story, this will be one of my favourite books of all time.
Terrific video! I'm currently rereading Pride & Prejudice via audio, and loving it!! I agree about Alan Cummings memoir. He was perfect for it. I agree with all your picks. I also, for the most part, like Bronson Pinchot's narration, but I DNFd that book because it just seemed to implausible. I'll try the Viola Davis book next!💕
These all sound wonderful. I agree with you about Juliet Stevenson, such a talented actress. I have a recommendation for you- Mrs. Dalloway blackstone audio narrated by Phyllida Law. Really brilliant I gave her a standing ovation when I was done. Lol. My husband was confused as I was listening with headphones 😂.
Hello! I have listened to and loved most of these, but have not listened to the Stanley Tucci or the Viola Davis. On the strength of your enthusiasm I will seek these out and listen! I hope your lingering cough and cold symptoms will be resolved very soon! Take good care, TK
Super cool you are enjoying this avenue! These days, I prefer to engage in immersive reading. My favorite medium is regular books. But I have even given into using e-books when convenient. If it allows flexibility and an ability to read more, I will do it. That said, i have always loved audio books! I was checking those out at the library in the eighties...cassette and then cd. Ruby Dee's performance was absolutely stellar! I definitely will pick up Mrs. Davis's memoir!! Four of my favorites! 1) Notes From Underground narrated by George Guidall 2) The Spook Who Sat by the Door narrated by Dion Graham and Natiki Hope Pressley 3) Dolores Claiborne narrated by Frances Sternhagen 4) On the Savage Side narrated by Catherine Taber
I have increased my audiobook listening a lot in the last few years. So many fantastic narrators that just enhance the story so much! I also love Alan Cumming and his book broke my heart but he's fantastic. Stanley Tucci's is on my TBR - love the butter amount. 😂
Some great ideas here, thanks! Completely agree re narrator. A good narrator is essential. An entertaining listen is Juliet Stevenson reading Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce. Other audio books I've loved: The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner (Narrator Mark Bramhall). Listened to all of Wallace Stegner in audio format, despite the recent controversy over Angle of Repose. Highly recommended. Stunning writing.) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Narrator Kerry Shale); Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo (narrator James Goode.) I could go on...
Oh, wow. I love audiobooks. I'll have to check out some of your favorites. I'm at work right now, so I will watch the video when I get home. Here are my favorites - please forgive me for not sticking to just 10! A good narrator can add so much depth and really bring a book to life; I think these books combine great writing with perfect narration. In no particular order: Taste - Stanley Tucci Any of Anthony Bourdain's Food memoirs - Anthony Bourdain Say Nothing - Matthew Blaney The Dinner - Clive Mantle Brideshead Revisited - Jeremy Irons Jane Austen novels - Juliet Stevenson Life After Life - Fenella Woolgar Milkman - Brid Brennan David Copperfield - Richard Armitage Sarah Waters novels - Juanita McMahon The Signature of All Things - Juliet Stevenson The Poirot novels - Hugh Fraser The Hobbit - Andy Serkis Hamnet - Ell Potter Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Beata Pozniak A Passage to India - Sam Dastor A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki A Burning - Vikas Adam, Priya Ayyar, Deepti Gupta, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah, Ulka Simone Mohanty Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Indira Varma, Himesh Patel, Antonio Aakeel I will listen to almost anything narrated by Juliet Stevenson or Juanita McMahon. I'm also an easy sell for anything with Irish, Scottish, or Indian accents.
Loved this episode! Thanks for the recommendations. I listen to audiobooks while I knit and two of my favorites are Tin Man and Still Life both by Sarah Winman. The books are so good and her narration of them is wonderful. I could listen to her for hours.
Great video I am an avid reader via audiobooks only due to vision issues. I cannot wait to listen to your favorites. Finding Me is one of my all time favorites. I also loved becoming by Michele Obama, it is an amazing story of her growth from south side of Chicago to first lady
I remember really liking City of Thieves by David Benioff, narrated by Ron Perlman. Want to listen to it again but have so many other books to get to first. Recently listened to a few Agatha Christie short stories narrated by J Stephenson & you're right. She is excellent.
I read Taste by Stanley Tucci and loved it, but now I may have to check out the audio book to hear him tell it! I love him too. I didn't know who Juliet Stevenson (Stephenson?) was until you mentioned the nurse in Mona Lisa Smile - I love that movie!! I don't think I've found an audio book yet that I've just loved like any of the ones you've mentioned but I'd have to say that one I did really enjoy was The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, oh and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I'm trying to get more into audio books, but it's hard because like you said, it's a different part of the brain, and even with NF sometimes it can be so dry and dull that it's like I'm sitting in a classroom with the teacher from Ferris Bueller and I can't do it! The narrator can 100% make or break an audio book for me. Thank you for another lovely video!
Another delightful video, Kim. Thank you! I used to listen to audiobooks in the car because I had a long commute to and from work. I often would listen in the car and read the text at home, so I’d do sort of a combination of listening and reading. In recent years, Louise Erdrich has been reading her own novels on audio, and I love her. I also loved Angela’s Ashes on audio. I recently listened to Matthew Perry reading his memoir, and that simply broke my heart. Thanks for your videos!😊
Great video, thanks! I was just looking for some ideas what to listen to next. I love Emilia Fox narrating Miss Marple's novels, I only want to listen to her. So, Viola Davis is on my TBR, or TBL!
I also love Taste. I think my favorite recipe direction is (and I hope I get this right) "Squeeze those tomatoes until it looks like the third act of MacBeth!"
I’m reading Jane Erye for the first time and am doing a book and audiobook combo. Juliet Stevenson is the narrator for the audiobook and I adore it. I’m limiting myself to a chapter per day and I look forward to it all day. She’s phenomenal, and I can’t wait to read/hear her version of Middlemarch. Thanks for all the recommendations! Adding Taste to my TBR, too.
You're mentioning some great books there, books I have read and loved but not listened to on audio. For example Next time fire (as it is called here) by James Baldwin, that I read last year. He was a wise man and a good writer! Great book! And Angela's Ashes that I read several times years ago. A fantastic book! One of my favourites of all times! I unfortunately cannot get that book (not any of them) on audio here. Only an abridged version. But such great books! What I did manage to find where I live is Middlemarch narrated by Juliet Stevenson, and that is a book that I have never read (I know, shame on me) so I will try that! Thank you for this video! I listen to a lot of audio books these days!😊
I love audiobooks that are more voice-acting than just reading.- The How to Train Your Dragon series, read by David Tennant; The Discworld books, especially Jingo, Wee Free Men, and Night Watch; the Bromeliad trilogy (also by Terry Pratchett), American Gods(Neil Gaiman); all the renditions of the Hitchhiker's Guide series; and the version of The Lord of the Rings books that uses music and sounds from the films. I listen to all of these books repeatedly the way many people rewatch favorite movies.
Great video, I always like to know good narrator's, because I believe it is all in who narrates it to keep my attention. I listed to Finding Me by Viola Davis, totally agree it was a great book, she sure went through a lot growing up. Another favorite of mine is The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton it was my first audio book I pick to start with while driving to work , he narrates it himself I believe. He was sent to prison, for a crime he did not commit I like listening more to non-fiction in audio than fiction. I might try that Pride and Prejudice you recommended, for I can never get into the books, but also haven't been able to find a narrator I liked either.
Thank you for this list, Kim! I used to have a long commute (some times 2 hours one way), so I got to listen to a lot of audiobooks. These days I only get around to them when I'm exercising, and right now that isn't as often as it should be. 🤭 But I'm always glad to have some good recommendations lined up for when I need something new to listen to.
I am so with you in really thinking nonfiction audiobooks work the best. I usually end up being stuck with whatever is available on the library app so often it ends up being the other way around 😅 Books in dialect are often so much more fun in audio format. I have read or listened to a few of these but I am adding Big Girl Small Town, Angela's Ashes, These Silent Woods, Not My Father's Son, Taste, and Finding Me to my TBR. Great video!
I loved Not My Father's Son. Cumming did a great job writing and reading it. My other favorites include To Kill A Mockingbird read by Sissy Spacek, The Great Gatsby read by Frank Mueller and L.A. Confidential also read by Mueller.
Oh yeah, Finding Me on audio was outstanding! Highly recommend as well! Great choices. A favorite fiction audiobook of mine is Moby Dick narrated by William Hootkins. He's just as good as Juliet Stevenson and will make anyone LOVE Moby Dick, I promise!
Middlemarch by audio book! I just checked my library and unfortunately the copy they have isn't narrated by Juliet Stevenson. Though apparently listening to that novel is a way people enjoy because there's a small wait list for it. Also, it never occurred to me to do the audio book version of Their Eyes Were Watching God. I've been intimidated about reading it due to the dialect so what a wonderful way to finally get to read it. Love this topic.
Here are some of my favorite audiobooks: The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman, Revolution Song by Russell Shorto, Muppets in Moscow by Natasha Lance Rogoff, The Dress Diary Secrets From a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin, Games Without Rules The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray, Red Notice by Bill Browder, The Russian Affair by David Walsh, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Thanks for the video. I just read Middlemarch for the first time and I think I'd have a tough time following it as an audiobook as a first read. Celebrity memoirs are good because if your attention wanders during an anecdote about talking to Carson Daly or something it's okay. If you get distracted I'm a passage of Eliot, who knows what you miss?
Spot*** has a ton of audiobooks. The Midnight Library: I read that in August of last year and for my 1st shot at audio I read it again this month and it was just as good. Godkiller was to much of a slow burn after 4hrs so I'll start The Generation Ship later today.
I recently started listening to audiobooks again after a long break. Mostly mysteries. I knit & do other crafts while I listen-- 2 birds/1 stone. I've found that I can't just sit there & listen, I need to be doing something with my hands.
I so wish I could stay focused on Audio Books. The only time my mind doesn’t wander off is when I'm on a roadtrip or sometimes if I'm cooking. I just suck at them.
I love any audiobook narrated by Jim Dale. He's the best of the best I also will listen to anything narrated by Neil Gaiman. Both of them could read the back of a shampoo bottle and I'd be riveted
The award winning audiobook for Only Plane in the Sky, an oral history of 9/11 is phenomenal with about 50 voice actors taking on the roles of about 300 witnesses to the events of the day.
I have such a hard time with audio books. My mind drifts are I fall asleep, so I'm constantly going backwards lol. I should give them another try....maybe
I agree - Middlemarch by Juliet Stevenson was wonderful but my favourite audiobook by far, and only recently finished, was Lonesome Dove narrated by Lee Horsley. I travelled every inch of the way from Texas to Montana and even after 30-something hours I didn't want it to end. Primarily because of the narration, but also the wonderful story, this will be one of my favourite books of all time.
It’s one of my favorite books of all time but now I may check out the audio. Thanks!😊
oh my gosh yes, Taste & Finding Me were so incredibly impactful on audio! Greta video, thank you!
Hi Kim, we do have a lot of the same tastes. Ruby Dee was wonderful. I loved the Alan Cummings and the Stanley Tucci audiobooks.
Great minds obviously think alike! 🤣🥰
Terrific video! I'm currently rereading Pride & Prejudice via audio, and loving it!! I agree about Alan Cummings memoir. He was perfect for it. I agree with all your picks. I also, for the most part, like Bronson Pinchot's narration, but I DNFd that book because it just seemed to implausible. I'll try the Viola Davis book next!💕
These all sound wonderful. I agree with you about Juliet Stevenson, such a talented actress.
I have a recommendation for you- Mrs. Dalloway blackstone audio narrated by Phyllida Law. Really brilliant I gave her a standing ovation when I was done. Lol. My husband was confused as I was listening with headphones 😂.
I’ll definitely look at that one! Thanks. 😊
Hello! I have listened to and loved most of these, but have not listened to the Stanley Tucci or the Viola Davis. On the strength of your enthusiasm I will seek these out and listen!
I hope your lingering cough and cold symptoms will be resolved very soon! Take good care, TK
Thank you so much! ☺️
Super cool you are enjoying this avenue!
These days, I prefer to engage in immersive reading. My favorite medium is regular books. But I have even given into using e-books when convenient. If it allows flexibility and an ability to read more, I will do it.
That said, i have always loved audio books! I was checking those out at the library in the eighties...cassette and then cd.
Ruby Dee's performance was absolutely stellar!
I definitely will pick up Mrs. Davis's memoir!!
Four of my favorites!
1) Notes From Underground narrated by George Guidall
2) The Spook Who Sat by the Door narrated by Dion Graham and Natiki Hope Pressley
3) Dolores Claiborne narrated by Frances Sternhagen
4) On the Savage Side narrated by Catherine Taber
I like print on paper books best. But I love listening to audiobooks in the car.
I have increased my audiobook listening a lot in the last few years. So many fantastic narrators that just enhance the story so much! I also love Alan Cumming and his book broke my heart but he's fantastic. Stanley Tucci's is on my TBR - love the butter amount. 😂
Some great ideas here, thanks! Completely agree re narrator. A good narrator is essential. An entertaining listen is Juliet Stevenson reading Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce. Other audio books I've loved: The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner (Narrator Mark Bramhall). Listened to all of Wallace Stegner in audio format, despite the recent controversy over Angle of Repose. Highly recommended. Stunning writing.) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Narrator Kerry Shale); Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo (narrator James Goode.) I could go on...
Oh, wow. I love audiobooks. I'll have to check out some of your favorites. I'm at work right now, so I will watch the video when I get home. Here are my favorites - please forgive me for not sticking to just 10! A good narrator can add so much depth and really bring a book to life; I think these books combine great writing with perfect narration.
In no particular order:
Taste - Stanley Tucci
Any of Anthony Bourdain's Food memoirs - Anthony Bourdain
Say Nothing - Matthew Blaney
The Dinner - Clive Mantle
Brideshead Revisited - Jeremy Irons
Jane Austen novels - Juliet Stevenson
Life After Life - Fenella Woolgar
Milkman - Brid Brennan
David Copperfield - Richard Armitage
Sarah Waters novels - Juanita McMahon
The Signature of All Things - Juliet Stevenson
The Poirot novels - Hugh Fraser
The Hobbit - Andy Serkis
Hamnet - Ell Potter
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Beata Pozniak
A Passage to India - Sam Dastor
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
A Burning - Vikas Adam, Priya Ayyar, Deepti Gupta, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah, Ulka Simone Mohanty
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Indira Varma, Himesh Patel, Antonio Aakeel
I will listen to almost anything narrated by Juliet Stevenson or Juanita McMahon. I'm also an easy sell for anything with Irish, Scottish, or Indian accents.
Great list! I’ll have to check some out! 😊
Loved this episode! Thanks for the recommendations. I listen to audiobooks while I knit and two of my favorites are Tin Man and Still Life both by Sarah Winman. The books are so good and her narration of them is wonderful. I could listen to her for hours.
I loved Tin Man!
Great video I am an avid reader via audiobooks only due to vision issues. I cannot wait to listen to your favorites. Finding Me is one of my all time favorites. I also loved becoming by Michele Obama, it is an amazing story of her growth from south side of Chicago to first lady
@@sherrystacks4815 have you listened to Taste by Stanley Tucci? It’s excellent!
Taste was fantastic! That reminds me, I’m going out for Italian tomorrow. 🤤
Yum! 😋
I remember really liking City of Thieves by David Benioff, narrated by Ron Perlman. Want to listen to it again but have so many other books to get to first.
Recently listened to a few Agatha Christie short stories narrated by J Stephenson & you're right. She is excellent.
I read Taste by Stanley Tucci and loved it, but now I may have to check out the audio book to hear him tell it! I love him too. I didn't know who Juliet Stevenson (Stephenson?) was until you mentioned the nurse in Mona Lisa Smile - I love that movie!! I don't think I've found an audio book yet that I've just loved like any of the ones you've mentioned but I'd have to say that one I did really enjoy was The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, oh and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I'm trying to get more into audio books, but it's hard because like you said, it's a different part of the brain, and even with NF sometimes it can be so dry and dull that it's like I'm sitting in a classroom with the teacher from Ferris Bueller and I can't do it! The narrator can 100% make or break an audio book for me. Thank you for another lovely video!
Taste is phenomenal on audio. Tucci is wonderful! 🥰
Another delightful video, Kim. Thank you! I used to listen to audiobooks in the car because I had a long commute to and from work. I often would listen in the car and read the text at home, so I’d do sort of a combination of listening and reading. In recent years, Louise Erdrich has been reading her own novels on audio, and I love her. I also loved Angela’s Ashes on audio. I recently listened to Matthew Perry reading his memoir, and that simply broke my heart. Thanks for your videos!😊
Thank you! ☺️
I love audio books, too. Can't wait to get to Taste, because who doesn't love Stanley Tucci?
I sure do! 😆
Great video, thanks! I was just looking for some ideas what to listen to next. I love Emilia Fox narrating Miss Marple's novels, I only want to listen to her. So, Viola Davis is on my TBR, or TBL!
I loved John Boyne's hearts invisible furies.
Great book! Maybe I’ll check it out on audio. 😊
I also love Taste. I think my favorite recipe direction is (and I hope I get this right) "Squeeze those tomatoes until it looks like the third act of MacBeth!"
🤣🤣🤣
I’m reading Jane Erye for the first time and am doing a book and audiobook combo. Juliet Stevenson is the narrator for the audiobook and I adore it. I’m limiting myself to a chapter per day and I look forward to it all day. She’s phenomenal, and I can’t wait to read/hear her version of Middlemarch. Thanks for all the recommendations! Adding Taste to my TBR, too.
She does so many great audiobooks! ❤️
You're mentioning some great books there, books I have read and loved but not listened to on audio. For example Next time fire (as it is called here) by James Baldwin, that I read last year. He was a wise man and a good writer! Great book! And Angela's Ashes that I read several times years ago. A fantastic book! One of my favourites of all times! I unfortunately cannot get that book (not any of them) on audio here. Only an abridged version. But such great books! What I did manage to find where I live is Middlemarch narrated by Juliet Stevenson, and that is a book that I have never read (I know, shame on me) so I will try that! Thank you for this video! I listen to a lot of audio books these days!😊
You’re welcome! ☺️
I love audiobooks that are more voice-acting than just reading.- The How to Train Your Dragon series, read by David Tennant; The Discworld books, especially Jingo, Wee Free Men, and Night Watch; the Bromeliad trilogy (also by Terry Pratchett), American Gods(Neil Gaiman); all the renditions of the Hitchhiker's Guide series; and the version of The Lord of the Rings books that uses music and sounds from the films. I listen to all of these books repeatedly the way many people rewatch favorite movies.
Those are great selections! 😊
Great video, I always like to know good narrator's, because I believe it is all in who narrates it to keep my attention. I listed to Finding Me by Viola Davis, totally agree it was a great book, she sure went through a lot growing up. Another favorite of mine is The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton it was my first audio book I pick to start with while driving to work , he narrates it himself I believe. He was sent to prison, for a crime he did not commit
I like listening more to non-fiction in audio than fiction. I might try that Pride and Prejudice
you recommended, for I can never get into the books, but also haven't been able to find
a narrator I liked either.
I’m listening to Lab Girl now and it’s great. And just finished Jane Eyre narrated by Thandiwe Newton and she was terrific! 😊
Thank you for this list, Kim! I used to have a long commute (some times 2 hours one way), so I got to listen to a lot of audiobooks. These days I only get around to them when I'm exercising, and right now that isn't as often as it should be. 🤭 But I'm always glad to have some good recommendations lined up for when I need something new to listen to.
I just started Lab Girl today and am loving it already! And Jane Eyre narrated by Thandiwe Newton was fantastic!
I am so with you in really thinking nonfiction audiobooks work the best. I usually end up being stuck with whatever is available on the library app so often it ends up being the other way around 😅 Books in dialect are often so much more fun in audio format. I have read or listened to a few of these but I am adding Big Girl Small Town, Angela's Ashes, These Silent Woods, Not My Father's Son, Taste, and Finding Me to my TBR. Great video!
Thank you! And you won’t be sorry! 😊
I loved Not My Father's Son. Cumming did a great job writing and reading it. My other favorites include To Kill A Mockingbird read by Sissy Spacek, The Great Gatsby read by Frank Mueller and L.A. Confidential also read by Mueller.
I must listen to Spacek! She must be perfect for Mockingbird. ❤️
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH She is. She captures all the characters beautifully.
Oh yeah, Finding Me on audio was outstanding! Highly recommend as well! Great choices.
A favorite fiction audiobook of mine is Moby Dick narrated by William Hootkins. He's just as good as Juliet Stevenson and will make anyone LOVE Moby Dick, I promise!
Ooh I’ll definitely check that out! 😊
Middlemarch by audio book! I just checked my library and unfortunately the copy they have isn't narrated by Juliet Stevenson. Though apparently listening to that novel is a way people enjoy because there's a small wait list for it. Also, it never occurred to me to do the audio book version of Their Eyes Were Watching God. I've been intimidated about reading it due to the dialect so what a wonderful way to finally get to read it. Love this topic.
Thank you! 😊
I have to try the Middlemarch-audibook!
Yes you do! 🥰
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH And so I will! 😆
Here are some of my favorite audiobooks: The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman, Revolution Song by Russell Shorto, Muppets in Moscow by Natasha Lance Rogoff, The Dress Diary Secrets From a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin, Games Without Rules The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray, Red Notice by Bill Browder, The Russian Affair by David Walsh, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Awesome titles! Lots of possibilities. 🤓
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH Thanks.
Thanks for the video. I just read Middlemarch for the first time and I think I'd have a tough time following it as an audiobook as a first read. Celebrity memoirs are good because if your attention wanders during an anecdote about talking to Carson Daly or something it's okay. If you get distracted I'm a passage of Eliot, who knows what you miss?
Very true! 😊
Spot*** has a ton of audiobooks. The Midnight Library: I read that in August of last year and for my 1st shot at audio I read it again this month and it was just as good. Godkiller was to much of a slow burn after 4hrs so I'll start The Generation Ship later today.
Oh wow. I never thought of that! I’ll take a look. 😊
I recently started listening to audiobooks again after a long break. Mostly mysteries. I knit & do other crafts while I listen-- 2 birds/1 stone. I've found that I can't just sit there & listen, I need to be doing something with my hands.
Enjoyed this! I'm sure you have but have you seen Truly madly deeply? It was the first time I remembered Juliet Stevenson.
I haven’t seen it but I need to asap!!! 😭🤣
I so wish I could stay focused on Audio Books. The only time my mind doesn’t wander off is when I'm on a roadtrip or sometimes if I'm cooking. I just suck at them.
I love any audiobook narrated by Jim Dale. He's the best of the best
I also will listen to anything narrated by Neil Gaiman.
Both of them could read the back of a shampoo bottle and I'd be riveted
🤣🤣🤣
The award winning audiobook for Only Plane in the Sky, an oral history of 9/11 is phenomenal with about 50 voice actors taking on the roles of about 300 witnesses to the events of the day.
I listened to that one as well. It was haunting but so well done.
I have such a hard time with audio books. My mind drifts are I fall asleep, so I'm constantly going backwards lol. I should give them another try....maybe
I completely get it. A lot of audiobooks don't work for me for exactly those reasons.
Will The Fellowship of the Ring end up on this list?
One of the best of all time! ❤️❤️❤️
The Lord of the Rings trilogy read by Andy Serkis….golden
I heard the same thing!
I will second that! It is an absolutely outstanding performance not just a narration.