| 1. The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7 Volume CD Box Set (Unabridged) | 
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By: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperChildrensAudio
October 26, 2004
I have purchased this for a Birthday present. My children loved these books and the movies are excellent too. I highly recommend this author to anyone young or old... more
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| 2. The Magician's Nephew |
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By: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperAudio
June 14, 2005
You may not have minded this as a kid, but coming back to it as an adult, it's painfully obvious that "The Magician's Nephew" is the point at which the Narnia series jumped the shark. The White Witch comes back to turn-of-the-century London and does nothing more than commandeer a carriage? Come on... more
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| 3. Frankenstein | 
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By: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Audioworks
January 01, 1994
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is the most important novel of the twenty-first century. Written almost two hundred years ago by a young woman nineteen years old, this parable captures with astounding clarity the problems that heartless science has visited upon the planet earth. In brief, the story makes clear the circumstances by which human inventions control their inventors. This book is not to... more
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| 4. Hamlet (BBC Radio Presents) |
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By: William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh
Publisher: Random House Audio
November 01, 1993
"Hamlet" doesn't need any introduction -- the tortured Dane, the ghost, meditations on suicide and a climax full of death. But as well-known as the storyline is, the play itself is what deserves the attention, both for Shakespeare's shadowy plot filled with uncertainty and treachery -- and for his brilliant, immortal writing, which takes on a new dimension when read on the page.
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| 5. Hamlet : For Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun series) | 
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By: Lois Burdett
Publisher: Firefly Books
March 04, 2000
Teaching Shakespeare to children has been a challenge until I found this series. Hamlet for Kids was the first book I read and I found it completely entertaining. As a home educator, I also found these works very inspiring. Burdett has found a way to use Shakespeare to help elementary school students in their reading comprehension and writing skills. The text is written in couplets, and contains the... more
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| 6. The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1660-63 Pt. 1 |
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By: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books
August 04, 1994
The reading of this volume was almost unlistenable. It sounded like what I had heard described by a Kindle review describing the robotic delivery of "Kindle reading". I swear, the reader sounds as if he is imitating a machine with his odd and unnatural deflection. And, hey, other reviewer, this is not Richard Branagh reading this! Read the cover!
I wish I had the Richard Branaugh... more
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| 7. Longshot |
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By: Dick Francis
Publisher: Media Books Audio Publishing
July 27, 2004
I've fallen in love with many Dick Francis heroes, but John Kendall is perhaps the most appealing of all on many levels: physical, intellectual, psychological.
John at thirty-two years old has written six guidebooks on how to survive in the desert, on the ocean, in the jungle, in the Arctic and so forth.
Alone in the wild he's eaten fried worms and rattlesnake, caught fish... more
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| 8. Romeo and Juliet (BBC Radio Presents) | 
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By: William Shakespeare
Publisher: BDD Audio
January 01, 1994
I have this recording on audio cassette, and I was very excited to find the same version on CD. However, after a month of waiting, I still have not received my order. I was not notified by the company in any way that the order had been back-ordered, but they certainly did not hesitate to go on and take the money out of my bank account. I thought that normally when items were backordered, they waited... more
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| 9. King Lear (Naxos AudioBooks) |
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By: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
January 01, 2002
I love King Lear and I love Paul Scofield, who voices Lear in this production. I bet it was a dynamite version to see live. But this audio recording suffers from terrible sound mixing. Some people have used the phrase "voices dropping out" to describe the problem, but I'd say simply that they did too little post-production mixing. The volumes are wildly divergent. This is most audible when someone... more
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| 10. Pepys' Diary (Classic, HighBridge) |
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By: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
February 01, 1996
The audiobook is fantastic. Well read by Kenneth Branagh. Full of insight into the times in which Samuel Pepyes lived... more
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