When Cary Elwes read, Chapter One, once again Im hearing the voice of the Barron from Walt Disneys English-dub version of Studio Ghiblis animations Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns.His voice is just beautiful getting old.
Without the meat and flesh of the story, it is more like an oddly rushed reading of the movie script. Review This is my first audiobook and its really an awesome experience. Title: A Little Princess, Unabridged Audiobook on CD By: Frances Hodgson Burnett Narrated By: Rebecca K. The reader would have done a fine job with this audiobook had he been given enough of it to read. Narrator Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner, Chris Sarandon, Andy Scheinman, Wallace Shawn & Robin Wright. I guess the audiobook is a similar length to the movie, but it does not have the benefit of Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin (and visual effects). Even an early exchange between Buttercup and her parents about hygiene has been cut so short as to be almost terse and straightforward rather than pointing out how dimwitted and dirty is our heroine and eliciting a few laughs. The Princess Bride has been a family favorite for close to three decades. This audiobook has been cut (dare I say mutilated) so far that much of the humor is gone.
The book not only refers to the bits of the "classic" that were "eliminated", the story itself meanders in funny ways around the main story, talking of Buttercup's beauty, the prince's failed engagement to a princess with many hats, etc. This audiobook almost entirely skips the book's intro and it seems almost unnecessary to mention it later on. In the unabridged book Goldman begins by giving a wandering backstory about his introduction to the S. Joe DiMaggio, Mohammed Ali, Princess Diana, Michael Jordan an.
Part of what is so enjoyable in reading the book is how the author/adapter intersperses his comments about the original text. BESTSELLERS-AUDIO, The 101 : 101 Ways for Parents and Teachers to Help Every Child Achieve. 21.99 Kindle Edition 10. The story behind the book is that it is an adaptation of the "S. MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged 'Please retry' 21.99. So much of the story has been cut that it lacks the feel of the original book. I didn't realize when I bought it that this version was abridged.