Easily Amused

Great story, brilliant performance.

Revisado: 04-02-25

The eventual disposal of the jewel was unexpected I had wished for. The character voices were the best I have experienced. Collins’ women are better than Dickens’ (a low bar to be sure) and I found it refreshing to hear a Victorian writer’s take on evangelical Christians to be not too far from my own, 200 years further on.

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The only one

Revisado: 06-30-22

The original, and the only one of the classic Laidlaw trilogy available as an audio download. The only audio version of the trilogy read by the author. Don’t expect a performance, this is more like the author reading at a bookstore. The language is astonishing and fresh. He knows the meaning of every phrase intimately, having done work to shape each one into something special. He delivers the distinctive shades of Glasgow speech with the authority and enjoyment of a Mark Twain reading Huck Finn. It’s tragic that there isn’t more, but wonderful that we have this much. What a discovery!

I have listened to the recently published postmortem pastiche coauthored by Ian Ranken and read by Brian Cox. It doesn’t stink, but it doesn’t come close to this one.

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Enjoyable

Revisado: 07-11-20

Not much below the surface but light and entertaining, certainly did the job. On one level, especially in the beginning, it was like a reverse gothic: sunny, naive older man in his house, tmysterious young woman moves in iharboring a dark secret.

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