Crap. I didn't even know Frank Muller had died. I just remember him doing the audiobook of The Talisman. He did a good job reading it, but I'm very ambivalent towards the story (in that, I want to like it, but there's things that happen in it that made me not like it so much).
Always liked audiobooks, and I certainly agree that a good reader can make a break it. Case in point, many years ago I checked out Roald Dahl's The Witches read by Richard Briers (and released by the now defunct Chivers Audiobooks, whose library I believe is now owned by BBC America). If you don't know who Richard Briers is, he's a character actor (and at the time I write this, thankfully still among us) who did a lot of work on things Dahl wrote for television, and his reading of The Witches is one of the best audiobooks I've ever heard. He does great voicework, has a wonderful cadence, and manages the near impossible of actually making the suspenseful parts suspenseful.
This version is now very difficult to find, though awhile back I found a site selling an MP3 of it. The rights to new recordings have since been bought out by Recorded Books, who had the late Lynn Redgrave reading it. I haven't heard Redgrave's reading, and while I'm sure it's quite acceptable, I just don't think it would be possible to top Brier's version...it's one of the few recording's of Dahl's work I've heard that just WORKS.
Topic: Audiobooks (Read 5368 times)
