
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Scott
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By:
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Roald Dahl
Seven superb stories, from the world's no. one storyteller.
Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.
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Critic reviews
"Few modern writers have attracted such an appreciative audience among adults and children as Dahl.... All the tales are entrancing inventions." (Publishers Weekly)
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian...[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” (The New York Times)
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Roald Dahl
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Pity about the narrator
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The Boy Who Talked with Animals
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The Swan not for kids
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It’s Pretty Great
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STUNNINGLY AMAZING
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Where does The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This has actually been one of my favorite audio books out of the fifty or so that I have listened to.What other book might you compare The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar to and why?
These short stories tend to include a bit of magic and wonder and animals. I actually felt compared to compare them to "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez--part fairytale, part realistic. (I liked this better though)Have you listened to any of Andrew Scott’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have not heard any of his audiobooks before, but I have seen several of his television roles. I know how much attention he has gotten for his role as Moriarty on BBC 's Sherlock, and I must admit that it was his name that attracted me to this particular recording. Despite the lack of reviews, I decided to give this a shot and I was not disappointed.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The entire story of "The Swan" was beautiful. It made me feel sick and anxious and terrified by the cruelty of those boys, but I was on the edge of my seat listening in horrified fascination to hear how it would all play out. I sat in my driveway for ten minutes after I got home, just to finish it.Any additional comments?
I was really blown away by this performance. It was engaging and well paced, the narration and the stories themselves combined to create a really great experience.The only thing I can think of that could have been improved would probably be the Jamaican accents from the first story, which were a little bit jarring. However, I absolutely commend the way he voiced female characters, subtly and non-ridiculous (which seems to be way difficult for a lot of male narrators, I've noticed).
Really fantastic!
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The narrator is mostly very good, with the exception of the first story, in which he performs the dialogue of the Jamaican characters in a way that sounds a bit like the Swedish Chef, with overtones of Inspector Clouseau. There is not a single sound in that accent that remotely evokes Jamaica. It's the most bizarre performance I've ever heard. (I knew that there were Indian characters in a later story and was worried about what would happen there, but he manages to do something reasonable for them.)
Badly miscategorized as a book for young children
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Spectacular.
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