| Talk about casting an audiobook... I recently listened to a fascinating autobiography by Tom Jones, entitled "Over the Top and Back." I actually didn't note the narrator when I bought it used from a library, but as soon as I started listening to it, it sounded SO MUCH like Tom Jones' speaking voice with his beautiful Welsh accent, that I was carried away thinking that it WAS Tom Jones. The reader's Welsh pronunciations sounded 90% like Tom Jones. Eventually, I just HAD to check the packaging to see WHO IS READING THIS? Well, it was Jonathan Pryce! Which totally floored me. Days later when I reached the end of the audiobook, there was some sort of narrated message tagged on after the end of the book, and I could finally hear Jonathan Pryce's real voice! So Jonathan Pryce is so great at audiobooks that he consistently took on Tom Jones' speaking voice over the course of a dozen CDs! I am amazed, and will listen to it again. |
