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Posted 2015-03-28 8:03 PM (#9950 - in reply to #9948)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		I haven't participated in the reading challenges before, until this year. Just finally managed to get it figured out how to participate. An audiobook challenge would be my sixth. I think maybe roughly half the books I read are audiobooks, most of which I download from my public library, so, just like Audible, I can return them.

I have an abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo on my reading list and last year I read an abridged version of Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.

You're right about the narrator. Most professional narrators are quite good. Jim Dale narrating the Harry Potter series is good enough to knock your socks off. Sometimes famous actors are great: Jeremy Irons reading Lolita; Meryl Streep reading The Testament of Mary. I've found that an author reading his own work sometimes isn't as good as one would hope. Neil Gaiman, however, does and excellent job.

On road trips, my spouse and I listen to books on CDs. I check them out from the library and she picks which ones we'll listen to. We arrived at her sister's house after an eight and a half hour drive with an hour left on the book and she wouldn't get out of the car.

Edited by spectru 2015-03-28 8:06 PM

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