![]() While I have and will continue to enjoy the written versions of A Series of Unfortunate Events, as long as Lemony Snicket is listed as reader, I will follow the advice on the package and disks and not listen. Add to this uneven sound levels for character voices, and I found I could not overcome my aversion to the performer to hear the work performed. ![]() His tone is rather flat and there is little of the verbal eyebrow arching and dramatic confidences the manuscript cries out for. ![]() The novel continues the adventures of the three Baudelaire orphans as they are sent to a boarding school run by bizarre characters. I cannot, however, recommend this audio book. The Austere Academy is the fifth novel in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events book series. This can be thoroughly enjoyable and I highly recommend it. Handler on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, I enjoyed the conversation, and truly enjoyed the texts I read, even to the point of reading them aloud at people I knew. Curry, or Jude Law, who plays the voice of Mr. Handler sounds almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Mr. As I read the text originally, I heard Tim Curry’s voice in my head. ![]() Snicket (nom de plume of Daniel Handler) should stick with the former and leave the latter to someone else. I make no apologies for my opinions formed in that brief period.Īuthors are not always the best readers. ![]() Full disclosure: I was unable to tolerate more than about ten minutes of this audio book. ![]()
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