Shaun Usher
Författare till Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
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Verk av Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (2013) — Redaktör — 850 exemplar
Letters of Note: Volume 2: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (2016) 74 exemplar
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) 50 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1978-08-04
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Manchester, England, UK
Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK - Agent
- Peters Fraser and Dunlop
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Statistik
- Verk
- 25
- Medlemmar
- 1,474
- Popularitet
- #17,429
- Betyg
- 4.2
- Recensioner
- 66
- ISBN
- 153
- Språk
- 9
The one I listened to last year was [Letters of Note - Music] and I just absolutely adored it, so it was high time I listened to another one.
The letters in this collection span more than 200 years and were written by people from many walks of life. There are famous writers such as Nelson Mandela, Napoleon, Frida Kahlo and Ludwig van Beethoven, but also people who are not that well known.
The letters were brought to life by stellar readers such as Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong, Clarke Peters and Toby Jones.
Because I loved the previous one I listened to so much, I went into this with high expectations, and they were mostly met, although this time the topic made for a different experience: Listening to love letters means to learn about some people's most private thoughts, often vulnerable and fragile, and sometimes it was a bit hard to understand the letters without knowing the writers and their particular situation. I would also have wished for a more varied selection, as it seems to be on the heavy side, featuring a lot of sad and desperate letters - there must be more joyful love letters out there?
But despite this criticism, it was a stellar experience to listen to this audiobook and I will definitely continue listening to this series. There are so many topics to choose from!
Reading the letters as a book, including, as I understand, facsimiles and pictures, must be wonderful as well, but I just love listening to them, especially because of the fantastic performance of the readers.
The audiobook includes some audio-exclusive material from live events: Three letters read by Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey and the song "Love Letter" performed by Nick Cave.… (mer)