Untold Stories - Part 1: Stories: The Stories Pt. 1

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Alan Bennett

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Pages: (Audio CD)

ISBN: 0563504471

Pub: BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Pub date: 2005-10-10

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9774

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5/5 stars

our resident geinus (7/13 people found this helpful)

Although the material and take on life are completely different Alan Bennett shares with William S Burroughs a voice that just sucks you into the narrative and makes impossible thereafter to read without hearing the voice in your head. I seldom buy spoken word recordings but sometimes it is a must. Having read (or not ) the books I can close my eyes and be transported in the same way that music works, which is saying something from my perspective.

I haven't actaually heard this yet but I do have 3 others by him and I know in advance that it cannot be recommend too highly.

The mundaity of it all speaks to and for all of us and above everything else it is the honesty and truth that humbles us. Alan knows that the smallest things have the biggest impact.

A definite hit with me.

5/5 stars

Entertaining (10/11 people found this helpful)

I bought this book with a gift certificate. I am not from England so much of the geography and names go right over me. However, there is a style of writing here that attracts me to every page. It is almost as if I have known A Bennett or he has known me all my/his life. I am sharing his thoughts and deeds throught these years. Mr Bennett is very understated.

5/5 stars

Listen with Alan (16/18 people found this helpful)

Listening to Alan Bennett reading his work adds an extra dimension - it's rather like an old friend confiding his private and personal memories. I'm not a fan of audiobooks but this one's an exception and worth replaying.

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