![]() but have a listen to the sample first to make sure you're happy as it is quite a long book. I too have listened to the Adam Sims version, and whilst it is undoubtedly better, I think the author in an odd sort of way better gets under the skin of the main characters - not surprisingly perhaps as she wrote the book! She doesn't maintain the tension and the narrative flow in the same way, possibly because the recording is a bit disjonted - breaks are fairly obvious - but I wouldn't let that put you off. ![]() I too am way about authors reading their own books: writing and narrating are different skills not often found in the same person. Unlike some other reviewers, I was pleasantly surprised at how good Donna Tartt was at reading her own book. The author shows great skill in creating a tense, claustrophobic and paranoid atmosphere and in hooking to reader into wanting to know what happens to the fairly unlikeable, self-obsessed group of dysfunctional students. ![]()
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