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Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself
- Narrated by: Gregory Sheridan, Carol Box
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
Narrated by Gregory Sheridan and Carol Box
This fictitious memoir, detailing the desperately suburban life of an obnoxious prig, was published anonymously in 1924. While it resembles the much better known The Diary of a Nobody, the satire is more far-reaching and devastating, and the main character is one of the most memorable in comic fiction.
The actual author was later discovered to be Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880-1961), who enjoyed a distinguished career in medicine and served as personal physician to King George VI.
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- Layer
- 25-07-20
Excellent
excellent and entertaining rendition, true to the character of the book, very funny all round.
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- Ashtree
- 24-05-22
Worst narration I've yet encountered on Audible.
I stuck with this for several chapters, but the narrator's weirdly-accented, bizarrely-pronounced voice-acting just became, frankly, not only irritating, but at times literally impossible to understand. I know he was 'playing the part', but some words were pronounced so strangely that I had to rewind to decipher them, and there are more than a few that I never did manage to decipher.
Worse, the strange performance isn't even consistent, and the tone and accent frequently changes - sometimes in mid-flow, as if the reader had stopped for a coffee break or at the end of day, and resumed in an accent that didn't quite match the previous sessions - at times this almost made me think that it was supposed to be a different character speaking.
I love the story, but this is one of the (two)? books I've ever returned to Audible in all my years of membership. I wish there was an alternative reading of the story, but no. I think I'll have to resort to the paper version to finish the story.
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