What are the best ever audio books?
This was the question I was asked by a group of friends I met while shopping for an audio book collection in an audio book forum.
They were all raving about the greatest audio book of all times, talking about how wonderful it felt being entertained by the creativity of the entire series, when I joined them.
I was under the impression that everyone though Harry Potter was the greatest audio book so I answered with a definate 'yes'.
I laughed to myself when they mentions Arthur Dent, I had obviously thought wrong.
Every single person shared the belief that "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was the the holy grail of audio books.
It seemed that everyone in there was a raving fan of the new 3rd series, they all gave it so much praise.
I myself have been a huge fan of the original series ever since I can remember, I thought to my self 'They're right!'.
What really impressed me was when they said the author himself - Douglas Adams - played the role of Agrajag.
Straight away I went to Spoken Netword and purchased this entire 6 part series.
The plot picked up from the exact spot that the second radio series left off. Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect had escaped from prehistoric Earth using a time-traveling sofa. At the time some homicidal robots had blown up Lords Cricket Ground.
Arthur, with only a rabbit bone as his weapon and an Italian bistro like spaceship, embarks on an intergalactic journey to save the universe.
To say I was blown away after listening to it would be the greatest understatement there is.
I was really pleased when I found out that the original cast had got back together to make this amazing sequel.
There were about 20 minutes of material obviously not contained in the broadcast version. From start to finish you are looking at about 3 hours, 10 minutes.
I couldn't believe that I was entertained for such a long time! It was enjoying every minute.
If you haven't listened to this new six-part dramatization of Douglas Adam's book "Life, the Universe and Everything" you are missing a lot.
The cast in this classic audio book include Arthur Dent, played by Simon Jones. Also Ford Perfect, played by Geoffrey McGivern; Trillian, played by Susan Sheridan; Zaphod Beeblebrox, played by Mark Wing-Davey; Marvin the Paranoid Android, played by Stephen Moore.
Other popular names in this classic audio book include Chris Langham, Richard Griffiths, and Joanna Lumley. There are even some legendary cricket commentators that play their part.
I was shocked at how good the overall sound was, the voices are superb, the production values were (sorry) 'out of this world'.
Winner of both the Gold Award for Drama, TV and Film and the Silver Award for Production; Spoken Word Awards 2005, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy audio book has continued to be a bestseller on audio CD and cassettes as it has been on radio.
If you haven’t listened to this audio book, do yourself a favor and order your copy right away. You can get it from one of the major outlets like Spoken Network.
An excellent source that I have found for audio book downloads is Spoken Network. You can find them at:
www.spokennetwork.com?cam=ama0025
