M&D & M-D on tape

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

I just ran across a rather negative review of the Books-on-Tape
unabridged Mason & Dixon at the Spermatikos Logos site. I'd like to
disagree.  I've listened, rapt, to the whole unabridged thang in the
car, on a series of fairly long road trips. The reading is just about
perfect. The monotonous voice the reviewer complains of is full of
character in itself, clear, and sympathetic.  The antiquated idiom of
the book, so self-concious looking and artificial on the page, reads
transparently and beautifully.  A beautiful job.

I am now listening to an "unabridged" Moby Dick from the same company.
This reader is somewhat less successful, but not disastrously so. He
uses varied voices (unlike the "monotonous" reader of M&D) for the
characters, which gives the thing a radio-play quality.

Both are worth renting.  I would recommend the M&D to those por souls
who didn't like the book, or, exhausted, just gave up on it.  I do
dearly wish P would allow this company to publish a reading of GR.

I'd suggest (hesitantly, but seriously) Matthew Broderick as a reader.
Any other ideas?

Mark

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