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The Woman in White
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I give up. I tried to change editions to write my review for this book, I can't tell if it changed or not.
What I want to review for this great story is the audiobook version I just finished listening to.
I have read the book before, but I found the Blackstone Audio version at my library. Roger Rees and Rosalynland are mainly reading the book, with John Lee and Judy Glees also narrating parts.
It is a long book to listen to, but I was entranced by their voices from the very beginning right up to the last sentence. Wonderful, wonderful!
The way the book is broken up into different sections, with different people writing totally lent itself to multiple voices. It really enhanced the emotions and "voices" of the writing.
Marion and Walter's voices were just exceptional, but my favorite was the Count.
I cannot recommend this book, nor this audio version more highly. It was 10 stars great!
What I want to review for this great story is the audiobook version I just finished listening to.
I have read the book before, but I found the Blackstone Audio version at my library. Roger Rees and Rosalynland are mainly reading the book, with John Lee and Judy Glees also narrating parts.
It is a long book to listen to, but I was entranced by their voices from the very beginning right up to the last sentence. Wonderful, wonderful!
The way the book is broken up into different sections, with different people writing totally lent itself to multiple voices. It really enhanced the emotions and "voices" of the writing.
Marion and Walter's voices were just exceptional, but my favorite was the Count.
I cannot recommend this book, nor this audio version more highly. It was 10 stars great!
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Reading Progress
October 24, 2013
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13.54%
"Miss Halcombe is reading a letter of her mother's to Walter. Miss Fairlie is walking back and forth out on the terrace - in the moonlight. I keep dozing off..."
page
91
October 25, 2013
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14.73%
"Walter admitted that he is in love with Miss Fairlie but he feels like he shouldn't have allowed himself to be because she is his student."
page
99
October 29, 2013
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16.52%
""If the recording angel had come down from heaven to confirm her," (Miss H's statement about Sir P) "and opened his book to my mortal eyes, the recording angel would not have convinced me." I like that."
page
111
October 31, 2013
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20.39%
"Walter's last night at Limmerich House. He met "the lady" in the graveyard. She is gone again - back to London??
I liked how Miss Halcombe comforted Walter about the letter he got from Mr. Fairlie about his leaving."
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137
I liked how Miss Halcombe comforted Walter about the letter he got from Mr. Fairlie about his leaving."
November 1, 2013
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23.21%
"Fell asleep reading. Just woke up from a dream about Sherlock Holmes being engaged to find the lady... I think it woke me up because I knew it was impossible! SH had not been created yet, when Wilkie Collins wrote The Lady in White!"
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156
November 1, 2013
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26.49%
"I felt sorry for Mister Gillmore having to write the settlement for Laura the way he was forced into doing."
page
178
November 2, 2013
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29.61%
"Poor Marion. She said she has done with gloom and distrust, but only as far as writing about either one in her journal. I take that to mean that both are still with her. Collins is really weaving a story here. We are moths to his flame!"
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199
November 4, 2013
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47.77%
"I have been forgetting to add 47
to the page number of my ebook in my status to indicate where I really am at.
WOW - Marion just had a dream/vision about Walter. I cannot wait to see where this story is going to go. We know the Sir P is BAD, we suspect that Count F evil? Who/What is the person L and M almost saw on their walk back to the house the night Sir P was gone?"
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321
to the page number of my ebook in my status to indicate where I really am at.
WOW - Marion just had a dream/vision about Walter. I cannot wait to see where this story is going to go. We know the Sir P is BAD, we suspect that Count F evil? Who/What is the person L and M almost saw on their walk back to the house the night Sir P was gone?"
November 4, 2013
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49.7%
"I am dimented. I am still at work, because I cannot put this book down. Marion writes of the Count: "He was silent and sensitive, and ready to sigh and languish ponderously (as only fat men can sigh and languish), on the smallest provocation." I do not know why, but it reminds me of Jackie Gleason."
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334
November 4, 2013
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55.65%
"I feel like I have been at the movie theater, sitting on the edge of my chair, and holding my breath for the last hour as I have been reading this book! I have a stress headache and I am going to take some aspirin and go to bed now. I can't read any more tonight..."
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374
November 5, 2013
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56.7%
"Count Fosco's entry in Marion's diary was great! I am reading Mr. Fairlie's section now. Falling off of my chair laughing!"
page
381
November 5, 2013
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60.86%
"Hmmm. Something is going on. They are sending the house keeper to Torquay to look for a house for them. Are they all going to be gone before she gets back?"
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409
November 6, 2013
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64.43%
"Too upset to read any more tonight even though I want to read Walter's account. I don't want to believe it was Laura!"
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433
November 6, 2013
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73.51%
"There is hope. Collins has given it to us in Walter's little accounting of Laura and her drawings. For the reader, a small pause in the "perpetual suspense". It feels good to take a deep breath, close my eyes for a moment, and float on that cloud of hope before I read on..."
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494
November 7, 2013
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78.72%
"I fell asleep reading Mrs. C's letter to Walter last night and have to leave for work with Prof P's reasons for leaving Italy unread."
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529
June 29, 2014
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Started Reading
June 29, 2014
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July 1, 2014
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80.0%
July 3, 2014
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95.0%
"53 minutes left. Listening to the Count's letter. His passion and the arrogance in the written words are so much fun to listen to. The narrators have really made this story come alive."
July 3, 2014
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Finished Reading
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Since I hadn't read the book, I can't compare, but at least the version where Radcliffe is the main actor, it's a truly scary movie.
I hope to read the original novel real soon."
Alejandro, I think you are confusing The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins with The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. The latter is the one that got turned into a movie with Daniel Radcliffe. The book is much, much scarier than the movie, and it makes more sense, too.
I hope to read the original novel real soon."
Alejandro, I think you are c..."
Hahahaha :P You're right Ivonne!!!
Sorry, Cherie for the confusion!!! :P
I was talking about "The Woman in Black" Big Ooops!!!
So sorry for all the mess!!! :P
I hope to read the original novel real soon.