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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three books I have loved on audiobook are:

[i]A Lesson Before Dying [/i]by Ernest Gaines

[i]Angle of Repose [/i]and [i]Crossing to Safety [/i]by Wallace Stegner

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I loved reading Crossing to Safety. The writing is sublime.[/quote]

I didn’t like the audiobook version of A Lesson Before Dying. I picked it up on cassette tape at a Cracker Barrel maybe a decade ago. The accents were strange and over the top. Perhaps that was just a bad version. [/quote]

Ew, strange accents would be bad for this book.  What makes it shine is the use of vernacular language.  It takes a certain cadence, and in some parts reading with a ponderance, to capture the feeling.  The conversational portions of the book are out-of-this-world.  My best friend tells a hilarious story about how she and her mom were reading this book to each to each other as they drove cross-country.  They got so into the book while driving in Ohio that they missed their turn to Columbus and ended up, surprise!, in Akron.[/quote]

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