Identify Audiobook Comment October 2, 2018 7:14 PM Subscribe
I'm pretty sure I read about an audiobook in a comment here. I wanted to get audiobook but now can't remember what it was or where the comment was. The gist of the comment was "[Title] is now available as an audiobook and it's read by [famous person]." Famous person who read the audibook was well-suited to the book, like maybe they had played the main character or the writer in a movie or something like that? I briefly thought "why didn't X [possibly the main charcter] read it" and then felt silly because of course X is dead? fictional? I may have found the comment after falling through a rabbit hole from this AskMe. Any ideas?
Hah! Thank you! And duh...I should have thought of that.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 7:36 PM on October 2, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 7:36 PM on October 2, 2018 [3 favorites]
Famous person who read the audibook was well-suited to the book, like maybe they had played the main character or the writer in a movie or something like that?
Obviously your puzzle has been solved, but I’ll note that Jeremy Irons both played Humbert Humbert in a remake of Lolita and narrated the novel for an audiobook. It also works quite well, although the book’s many parenthetical phrases and deliberately mangled bits of French are rather hard to convey.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:15 PM on October 2, 2018
Obviously your puzzle has been solved, but I’ll note that Jeremy Irons both played Humbert Humbert in a remake of Lolita and narrated the novel for an audiobook. It also works quite well, although the book’s many parenthetical phrases and deliberately mangled bits of French are rather hard to convey.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:15 PM on October 2, 2018
I seem to recall making a comment that LeVar Burton had also narrated "Cosmos". Could that be it?
posted by Autumnheart at 12:02 PM on October 3, 2018
posted by Autumnheart at 12:02 PM on October 3, 2018
Your question is solved, but Stephen Fry reading the british audiobooks of the Harry Potter series is like having your favorite uncle read bedtime stories to you.
posted by hippybear at 1:30 PM on October 3, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 1:30 PM on October 3, 2018 [3 favorites]
I think somebody once mentioned that Jeremy Irons read for an audiobook of Lolita, and he did play Humbert Humbert in a movie adaptation.
posted by jamjam at 9:28 AM on October 6, 2018
posted by jamjam at 9:28 AM on October 6, 2018
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posted by Iris Gambol at 7:35 PM on October 2, 2018 [3 favorites]