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FROM: "Stella Hill Memorial Library" <[removed]@netdot.com>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 6:44 AM

Our little part-time library is fortunate to have a volunteer custodian, a retired college professor with macular degeneration. (He can see well enough to clean, but not well enough to read.) We want to express our appreciation to him with a gift of a book on cassette and he wants The Da Vinci Code.

He prefers Recorded Books because of their excellent readers, but RB does not have the DaVinci Code. So far I have located 2 unabridged versions - Books on Tape read by Paul Michael and Random House read by Colin Stinton. Have any Fiction_Lers listened to either of these? Any recommendations would be appreciated as our guy is very sensitive to the reader.

We like to boast that we are the only library in Texas whose janitor has a Phd.

Thanks.

Virginia Singletary
Stella Hill Memorial Library
Alto, Texas
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FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nsls.info>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 9:51 AM

Virginia,

I thoroughly enjoyed the Books on Tape production of Da Vinci Code, enough
that I'm planning to purchase a copy for myself. Hope this helps,

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District
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From: "Stella Hill Memorial Library" <[removed]@netdot.com>
>
> Our little part-time library is fortunate to have a volunteer custodian, a
retired college professor with macular degeneration. (He can see well
enough to clean, but not well enough to read.) We want to express our
appreciation to him with a gift of a book on cassette and he wants The Da
Vinci Code.
>
> He prefers Recorded Books because of their excellent readers, but RB does
not have the DaVinci Code. So far I have located 2 unabridged versions -
Books on Tape read by Paul Michael and Random House read by Colin Stinton.
Have any Fiction_Lers listened to either of these? Any recommendations
would be appreciated as our guy is very sensitive to the reader.
>
> We like to boast that we are the only library in Texas whose janitor has a
Phd.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Virginia Singletary
> Stella Hill Memorial Library
> Alto, Texas
> [removed]@netdot.com

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 10:39 AM

Stella,

My husband and I listened to the BOT version. My husband, who listens to
few audio books, was not initially fondof the narrator. He adjusted to
the voice as we listened. I thought the narration was fine. I feel this
really is a personal thing. As you cannot let him try it first, I'd go
with the BOT.

Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Saxton B. Little Free Library
319 Route 87
Columbia, CT 06237
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

Stella Hill Memorial Library wrote:

>Our little part-time library is fortunate to have a volunteer custodian, a retired college professor with macular degeneration. (He can see well enough to clean, but not well enough to read.) We want to express our appreciation to him with a gift of a book on cassette and he wants The Da Vinci Code.
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>He prefers Recorded Books because of their excellent readers, but RB does not have the DaVinci Code. So far I have located 2 unabridged versions - Books on Tape read by Paul Michael and Random House read by Colin Stinton. Have any Fiction_Lers listened to either of these? Any recommendations would be appreciated as our guy is very sensitive to the reader.
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>We like to boast that we are the only library in Texas whose janitor has a Phd.
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>
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>Stella Hill Memorial Library
>Alto, Texas
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FROM: Lindy Pratch <[removed]@EPL.CA>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 11:25 AM

Hi Virginia,

I asked a staff member who leads our library's talking book discussion group
about this because she has mentioned that our patrons often talk about the
readers' voices. Unfortunately, neither of these readers are on the lists
she keeps of favourite and disliked readers.

The review of the Random House edition from AudioFile quoted on Amazon.ca
states "Colin Stinton's narration does not please quite so much. He reads
fast, perhaps intending to reflect the pell-mell pace of the novel, but the
result can be difficult to follow. Some of his voices work well--Robert
Langdon sounds like an academic Indiana Jones--and others not so
well--Sophie Neveu is vaguely reminiscent of Peter Sellers' Inspector
Clouseau. All in all, the production is not bad, but neither is it great."

Lindy
Edmonton Public Library

FROM: "Erin Apostolos" <[removed]@mailserv.mvlc.lib.ma.us>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 11:30 AM

I listened to the Paul Michael version. It was OK, but his accents were
horrible. He had Sofie speak with a Hollywood-like french accent even
though a detail in the book is that she has no trace of accented english.

I haven't heard the other version or any comments about it.

Erin Apostolos
Assistant Director for User Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
[removed]@mailserv.mvlc.lib.ma.us

Our little part-time library is fortunate to have a volunteer custodian, a
retired college professor with macular degeneration. (He can see well
enough to clean, but not well enough to read.) We want to express our
appreciation to him with a gift of a book on cassette and he wants The Da
Vinci Code.

He prefers Recorded Books because of their excellent readers, but RB does
not have the DaVinci Code. So far I have located 2 unabridged versions -
Books on Tape read by Paul Michael and Random House read by Colin Stinton.
Have any Fiction_Lers listened to either of these? Any recommendations
would be appreciated as our guy is very sensitive to the reader.

We like to boast that we are the only library in Texas whose janitor has a
Phd.

Thanks.

Virginia Singletary
Stella Hill Memorial Library
Alto, Texas
[removed]@netdot.com

FROM: "Lisa Williams" <[removed]@rbls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 2:08 PM

I've heard the Books on Tape edition and I couldn't wait to get back in the car (where my cd player is) to listen to it on my commute home each day. I'd concur in highly recommending it.

Lisa
Lisa Powell Williams
Moline Public Library
3130-41st Street
Moline, IL 61265
309/736-5737
Fax: 309/797-0480
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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:45 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Da Vinci Code Audiobook

Virginia,

I thoroughly enjoyed the Books on Tape production of Da Vinci Code, enough
that I'm planning to purchase a copy for myself. Hope this helps,

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stella Hill Memorial Library" <[removed]@netdot.com>
>
> Our little part-time library is fortunate to have a volunteer custodian, a
retired college professor with macular degeneration. (He can see well
enough to clean, but not well enough to read.) We want to express our
appreciation to him with a gift of a book on cassette and he wants The Da
Vinci Code.
>
> He prefers Recorded Books because of their excellent readers, but RB does
not have the DaVinci Code. So far I have located 2 unabridged versions -
Books on Tape read by Paul Michael and Random House read by Colin Stinton.
Have any Fiction_Lers listened to either of these? Any recommendations
would be appreciated as our guy is very sensitive to the reader.
>
> We like to boast that we are the only library in Texas whose janitor has a
Phd.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Virginia Singletary
> Stella Hill Memorial Library
> Alto, Texas
> [removed]@netdot.com

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