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Book Review of A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 1


I think this is probably a superior book but this is an aweful audio book. The voice of the man on death row, Jefferson, sounds like a creepy cross mix between, Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson and an 8 year old boy. The women's voices are so fake and falsetto. The voices ruined a moving story. I think it is probably better in print. I had not read the book before I listened to this.

Many of the others voices of the Lawyers, police officers, Mr Wiggins, and the Preacher, were really good and theatrical. But the whining voice of the death row man repeatedly say "Mr Wiggins...", was creepy, just as creepy as Johnny Depp playing Willy Wonka.