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Title: I, Richard by Elizabeth George, Jacobi Derek ISBN: 0-06-052302-6 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.09 (23 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: About the audiobook...
Comment: I'm a Road Warrior, spending many hours behind the wheel of my car which I special-ordered with both a cassette tape deck and a CD-player so that I could have a larger selection of audio-books. I'm surprised that the other reviewers did not mention the appalling narration of "I, Richard" (audio-book version) by Derek Jacobi. Mr. Jacobi is a fine actor, based on my experience with "Masterpiece Theatre", but his impression of an American accent sounds like Attila the Hun on helium. Since most of the short stories in this collection are set in America and have characters who are young women, Mr. Jacobi's unintentionally hilarious accent made me wish I could award this recording "negative stars".
2nd fatal mistake of this production - the "Interview with the Author" was in fact conducted by a young American woman (who managed to sound worse than Jacobi's bad impression of a young American woman) mechanically reading trite questions with no real enthusiasm or interaction with the author. Ms. George has a pleasant voice and is thoughtful and articulate, and I very much wanted to ask her a question: "Ms. George, your introduction to one of the stories (the first one, I think) indicated that in an earlier version you killed off the wrong character. Who did you kill, and why?" I mean, what's the point of an interview that doesn't rise above cliches?
Rating: 3
Summary: Better than I expected!
Comment: Unlike many of the readers, I found this book fun, ... These stories were mercifully short, and though the surprise endings might strike some readers as tacky, I thought they were fun. I confess I had to reread one story in part to understand the killer's motive, but despite that, there were more thrills here than I expected to find. George's introductions could have been shorter and more artful, but let's face it, she's not the mystery short story artist Ruth Rendell is, so that's not surprising.
Lev Raphael ...
Rating: 4
Summary: What gives?
Comment: I don't understand all of the negative reviews for this book. It is what it is - a collection of dark, short-story mysteries. All of the stories are pretty good. I have enjoyed it. George is better at writing novels but this collection stands on it's own.
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Title: A Place of Hiding by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 0553801309 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553582364 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Deception on His Mind by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 0553575090 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Playing for the Ashes by ELIZABETH GEORGE ISBN: 0553572512 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553561278 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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