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Our Mutual Friend: Unabridged (Naxos Complete Classics): Unabridged (Complete Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Dickens
Creator: David Timson
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Category: Book
List Price: £85.00
Buy New: £51.00
You Save: £34.00 (40%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 285486
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Discs: 28
Number Of Items: 28
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.1 x 4.1
ISBN: 9626344423
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9789626344422
ASIN: 9626344423
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Totally involving if you give it time February 6, 2008
emma who reads a lot (London)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have to admit I didn't immediately feel convinced by this reading, as the author of the first review clearly did.
But after a while, my god it grew on me. Timson is extraordinarily good at getting Dickens' way of writing to work, read out loud. I really felt like I was getting some insight into what it must have been like at the time, hearing Dickens himself read out his new novel.
Timson has a great ear for the different characters, and you immediately fall in love with the Boffins in particular. And he makes the opening scene with the tides of the Thames seem deeply sinister.
38 might seem like a lot for a book but it is about seven weeks of solid entertainment if you drive half an hour a day... Much better than a random night at the theatre you might not even like.
The best thing about it is that it's completely unabridged. So you get every single little detail of the novel - and you can drink it in with so much pleasure (and leisure) because someone else is reading it to you. Rarely have I listened to an audiobook which so much reminded me of the delights of having a bedtime story when i was little. Really good, v v v v v recommended.
A great reading September 24, 2007
Justin Murphy (Luxembourg)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
With 28 disks, this is a monster of an audiobook but it is worth the space. Timson reads brilliantly, and appears never to get tired. I'd like to know how long it took him to record it.
This isn't really the place to review Our Mutual Friend itself, nor am I worthy to do so. I can believe that some people who have trouble with reading Dickens, because of the length and the wordiness, might find an audiobook an easier introduction to him.
By the way, I was "encouraged" to read Dickens at school and hated him. I tried again a few (well, about 15) years later and now I can't get enough.
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