![]() ![]() 1776, Alice in Wonderland, To Kill a Mockingbird) this was the only disappointment. My Antonia was one of my all-time favorite books (read in print), and I hoped I would get similar pleasure from listening to O Pioneers on a cross-country car trip, but of the many audiobooks I listened to on the trip (The Great Gatsby, A Farewell to Arms, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn. ![]() Would you be willing to try another one of Kate Reading and Ken Burns (introduction) ’s performances? This is a silly question to ask-why would people want to know a reviewer's favorite character? And the men were portrayed with voices that made me think of fake mustaches in a junior high drama production. The inflections of the women's voices generally drove me nuts. Alexandra's voice sounded like Luna Lovegood, and Marie is portrayed as ditsy rather than feisty. Not this performance-Cather wrote strong women, and this narrator conveys them poorly. Would you listen to O Pioneers! again? Why? ![]()
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