![]() ![]() ![]() I'm convinced that Hemingway himself would applaud this performance of his work, and most certainly buy Mr. The first thing I did when I finished this was pull A Farewell to Arms from my bookshelf and re-read it, with Slattery's performance fresh in my mind. Finally, as he read the female characters, I did not find myself listening to a man trying to do a woman's voice, but rather to that woman herself. His delivery was as spare as Hemingway's prose itself, and his depiction of the Italian, English and American characters added a whole new dimension to the story. This popular Radio audio book is now available for free. ![]() But I was not prepared for the excellent performance by Slattery. Listen the original A Farewell to Arms audiobook by Lux Radio Theatre in full length for free. He gets the balance between the hard-bitten laconic tone of the narrative, from the terse war reflections to the suppressed pain at the end. And of course as a Hemingway classic I knew the writing is good. Would you consider the audio edition of A Farewell to Arms to be better than the print version John Slattery does a fine job narrating Hemingway's classic novel. But going forward, I'm likely to buy any book narrated by John Slattery. Male narrators who make intelligent women sound like bimbos, women narrators who make men sound like munchkins, readers who overperform. I usually don't pay much attention to the narrator of an audio book, except the ones I don't like. ![]()
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