Mrs Trellis
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I read this novel on holiday. As you can guess from the title caving is a major theme in this tale de nos jours.
Anyone else read it? Opinions?
Anyone else read it? Opinions?
It was serialised on Radio 4 a couple of years ago, as a Book at Bedtime IIRC. I think I would have got bored and given up half way through if I had actually been reading it, but it was OK listening to someone else read it while I was doing something else.
[Does anyone else agree with my position that having a single narrator read an author's actual words (albeit abridged in most cases) is far preferable to a dramatisation where the words are spoken by different characters as if the book were a play script?]
Mine insist on different voice characterisations - and woe betide me, if the next night I don't use the 'correct' voices when reading the next chapter.Peter Burgess said:It was serialised on Radio 4 a couple of years ago, as a Book at Bedtime IIRC. I think I would have got bored and given up half way through if I had actually been reading it, but it was OK listening to someone else read it while I was doing something else.
[Does anyone else agree with my position that having a single narrator read an author's actual words (albeit abridged in most cases) is far preferable to a dramatisation where the words are spoken by different characters as if the book were a play script?]
My kids sometimes rather I read them a story at bed time, than read it themselves. I think they would draw the line at having a troup of actors in their room reading the different parts.