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Title: phooey
Review: Audiobooks are books meant to be read aloud, enunciation and clarity are among the most important.Using these very old recordings done for a 'dramatic appeal' has left me with a feeling of wanton waste of money.Basil Rathbone's renditions are from a Shakespearean attempting to do Poe. If he would simply read. Alas, he acts, not reads.All of his recordings are: Volume too low, adjust up, volume to high, adjust down, yelling, adjust down again, whispering, adjust up again, etc. etc. ad nauseum. One cannot possibly hear using one setting of volume.It is a waste of money. Find a human who can read it and enunciate and let me do the fantasizing and imagining and conjuring. The poetry and prose should stand up alone and by itself, not acted upon. Rathbone died in 1967. The recording is over 50 years old!!Anyone who needs it play acted is not getting the correct message. It's about the words, not the actor.
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