Coraline audiobook

[yendi]

So, Neil Gaiman's blog pointed to this review of the Coraline audiobook. I'd somehow managed to miss the fact that Dawn French did the reading. I most definitely need the audiobook now, much as the idea of an audiobook strikes me as silly.

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[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

The *British* edition of the audiobook is read by Dawn French. The *US* version is read by Neil Himself and features rat-songs by Stephen Merritt of Magnetic Fields. Be sure you get the correct one. :-) I have the Neil-read one, because I love his reading style.

[skylion.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard the Dawn French reading. Jayson got me the Neil reading for my b-day last year. Neil, himself said that her version is the superior of the two; she does the Other Mother with "such zest". I can't think of it any other way than how Neil reads it. I hear his voice so much whenever I read the book itself.

[eilonwy.livejournal.com]

This post had me so confused that I raced about trying to figure out if I'd gone insane(r.) I have a copy of the audiobook *because* it's read by Neil. (I loooove hearing authors read their own things, be they poetry, prose, or anything else.) So here I sat going, "I thought it was by Neil. It sounded like Neil. Who's Dawn French? Was that Dawn French? Sounded like Neil..."

[yendi]

Much as I love Neil's voice, I think that Dawn is much more appropriate. The songs may make the difference, though.

Hey, where in the DC area do you live now? Two dear friends (chelona and voltbang), both of whom happen to be gamers, btw, are moving up to the area, but I dunno how near you they'd be.

[yendi]

I love Dawn French -- she's best known here for The Vicar of Dibley, but she's done a ton of great stuff for the BBC (including the skit on French and Saunders that launched AbFab).

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[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

I'm in Reston, VA. Five miles from Dulles Airport (basically, just off the Dulles Toll Road/airport access road).

Dawn's reading probably is very cool. I still haven't finished listening to Neil's rendition. I did, of course, read the book. Must stick the CD in my car for commutin listening!

[toratigris.livejournal.com]

I used to think audiobooks were silly, until I was seduced to the dark side by needing entertainment while I wash dishes. *g*

And the cool thing about audiobooks (provided they're not non-fiction, which would be a waste) is that one retains much less of what one hears than of what one reads, so one can listen to them again a few months later, and it's all new again! Hee!