Sven 🛌Jan 5, 2023

I've listened to some #AudioBooks and #AudioPlays last year. The main criteria was availability rather than specfic selection, so the outcome was pretty much what you'd expect: A lot of okay-ish listens. Some a bit better, some a bit worse. Nothing really exceptional.

Well, nothing but one. :) What stood out looking back was the (German) dramatic reading of #Dracula. The version is from Deutsche Grammophon from 2003, sadly it doesn't seem to be easily available anymore. https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/bram-stoker/dracula.html

Bram Stoker: Dracula. 5 CDs - Perlentaucher

Aus dem Englischen von Heinz Widmann. Dracula, der berühmteste Schauerroman aller Zeiten, fesselt seit 95 Jahren die Gruselfans. Seine Kombination aus Tagebüchern, Briefen und Zeitungsartikeln...

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In fact, when I did the last-year review with my wife, we decided to look if there was a similar version in English, so we can hear the original again. It seems #Audible has produced a proper unabridged‪ version in 2021: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/dracula-unabridged/id1590575891

The audio sample seems nice, so that's definitely going into the backlog for this year. :)

I didn't like many of the #Dracula movies I've seen but the book is great and basically made for a dramatic reading. #AudioBooks #AudioPlays #amReading

‎Dracula (Unabridged)

‎Fiction · 2021

Apple Books
Jan 5, 2023 at 1:21pmWeb