Have you listened to the greatest audio book of all time?
Posted By: admin // Category: accredited degree onlineThis was the question I was asked by a group of friends I met while shopping for an audio book collection in an audio book forum.
They were all raving about the greatest audio book of all times, talking about how wonderful it felt being entertained by the creativity of the entire series, when I joined them.
I was under the impression that everyone though Harry Potter was the greatest audio book so I answered with a definate 'yes'.
Then when they asked me how much I loved the role played by Arthur Dent, I knew I was dead wrong to think Harry Potter was the greatest audio book of all time.
To this group and almost everyone in that particular forum, the greatest audio book of all time was none other than "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
It seemed that everyone in there was a raving fan of the new 3rd series, they all gave it so much praise.
I myself have been a huge fan of the original series ever since I can remember, I thought to my self 'They're right!'.
I couldn't believe it when they said that the actual author played the part of 'Agrajag', how amazing.
I immediately went to Amazon and ordered for the complete six part dramatization - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary Phase.
I remember the end of season 2, the 3rd season continued that story perfectly. Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect had escaped from prehistoric Earth using a time-traveling sofa. At the time some homicidal robots had blown up Lords Cricket Ground.
Arthur, with only a rabbit bone as his weapon and an Italian bistro like spaceship, embarks on an intergalactic journey to save the universe.
I would be lying if I said that I was completely amazed by this, that would be an understatement.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that many of the cast of the original BBC Radio 4 series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy have somehow been reunited for a superb sequel.
There were about 20 minutes of material obviously not contained in the broadcast version. From start to finish you are looking at about 3 hours, 10 minutes.
I never imagined I could enjoy listening to an audio book for that long, but I not only enjoyed it, I was thoroughly entertained.
If you haven't listened to this new six-part dramatization of Douglas Adam's book "Life, the Universe and Everything" you are missing a lot.
The cast in this classic audio book include Arthur Dent, played by Simon Jones. Also Ford Perfect, played by Geoffrey McGivern; Trillian, played by Susan Sheridan; Zaphod Beeblebrox, played by Mark Wing-Davey; Marvin the Paranoid Android, played by Stephen Moore.
Other popular names in this classic audio book include Chris Langham, Richard Griffiths, and Joanna Lumley. There are even some legendary cricket commentators that play their part.
Apart from the powerful creativity involved in the voices used, the entire sound quality and production values were very high indeed.
Winner of both the Gold Award for Drama, TV and Film and the Silver Award for Production; Spoken Word Awards 2005, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy audio book has continued to be a bestseller on audio CD and cassettes as it has been on radio.
If you haven’t listened to this audio book, do yourself a favor and order your copy right away. You can get it from Amazon or any other popular audio book store on the Internet.
An excellent source that I have found for audio book downloads is Spoken Network. You can find them at:
www.spokennetwork.com?cam=ama0025