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The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 313
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 314
When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “tools” that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a masterpiece. Highly recommended!!
- By Kunal Kumar on 16-07-2020
- The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis, Michael Sheen
Lost in translation
Reviewed: 20-07-2020
Maybe I love the comics too much... but this just did not work for me. What is mystical and beautiful and compelling on the page, is graceless and disjointed in audio. The music is jarring and too loud in places, and the narrator has to clumsily explain what is conveyed in pictures in the comics. A real shame.
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Rose Madder
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 62
Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, Rose Madder, which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection!
- By Melissa Kelly on 28-02-2016
- Rose Madder
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
Great reading, terrible music
Reviewed: 19-07-2020
Great reading by Blair Brown, passable reading by Stephen King, his genius is in the writing, not in the performance. But the music is just awful, jarring and out of place, drowns out the voices in some places. Definitely worth persevering through, but please, someone, give us a version without the music!
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La Belle Sauvage
- The Book of Dust: Volume One
- By: Philip Pullman
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 611
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 574
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 571
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them; a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua....
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5 out of 5 stars
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delightful. gripping. touching.
- By phoebe on 22-12-2017
- La Belle Sauvage
- The Book of Dust: Volume One
- By: Philip Pullman
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
Marvellous
Reviewed: 15-04-2018
This is the most remarkable audio performance I’ve ever encountered, Michael Sheen gives every character their own distinct individuality that could not be bettered even with a whole cast of actors. The emotion of every scene, every line of the story, is expressed to perfection. What I want now is to listen to the His Dark Materials books read by him too. Astonishingly good