Matthew Fisk

Rugged and Beautiful

Revisado: 04-07-24

Gary Snyder is a beautiful, rugged, and deceivingly austere poet and writer from the Beat Generation, and the nature writing tradition in California. There are also many Buddhist, particularly Zen riddles, throughout.

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A big commitment made superb by excellent reader.

Revisado: 11-22-19

Bill Homewood is an excellent reader and his understanding of Fielding’s world and language, combined with his theatrical mastery and control, made what has otherwise been a great English novel I’ve never managed to stay with in print, into a jovial companion for long commutes and after-dinner dishwashing for the many months it took to saunter through it. Homewood creates distinct and consistent voices for dozens of characters in this sweeping picaresque “history” of the dashing and virtuous-to-a-fault Mr. Jones and his many escapades. It is a big commitment, but I highly recommend this audiobook, especially for those who are interested in 18th-century social class, etiquette, and society. Fielding is one of the English language’s admired writers - which I now understand listening to this book’s sharp wit, digressions on writing itself, and discussions of art generally.

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William Dufris is perfect for Stephenson

Revisado: 12-02-15

Would you consider the audio edition of Cryptonomicon to be better than the print version?

I have not read the print version, and I expect the more technical, mathematical points in the novel might have been easier to follow in print, but then one would miss Dufris's excellent and often very funny reading of the Charles Dickens of sci-fi.

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William Dufris is perfect for Stephenson

Revisado: 12-02-15

Would you consider the audio edition of Cryptonomicon to be better than the print version?

I have not read the print version, and I expect the more technical, mathematical points in the novel might have been easier to follow in print, but then one would miss Dufris's excellent and often very funny reading of the Charles Dickens of sci-fi.

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Tom Hollander is a perfect fit for this book

Revisado: 12-02-15

What did you love best about A Clockwork Orange?

I had not seen the Kubrick movie in eons and had never read the book, so I went for it. Hollander is an excellent reader and has the precise timing I think Burgess's "humble narrator" would have. This edition also includes a last chapter omitted from several previous US editions, apparently, and Burgess's Introduction, read by Hollander before starting the novel, is worth not skipping if you are interested in Kubrick's film version versus the original. I am eager to try more Burgess books -- Clockwork Orange was sort of a British, very twisted Vonnegut in style, I found.

Have you listened to any of Tom Hollander’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but I bet they are excellent.

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