I do wonder if a little less staid narration would be better, but the story is about hopelessly staid people so maybe he's ideal in that respect. (eg: vase = 'vayce', leisure = 'lee-sure', dubious = 'doobious', z = 'zee'.) If you can get past this, he's not bad - and thankfully such words don't crop up very often. The narrator is an odd choice - he sounds English yet pronounces some words like an American would I can only assume he is actually American. I wouldn't make a film about anything - it's not my line of work! There are a lot of characters and Neil Hunt's performance doesn't help distinguish them. Which character – as performed by Neil Hunt – was your favourite? What other book might you compare The Forsyte Saga to, and why? Would you listen to The Forsyte Saga again? Why? Once the details of the cast of characters sank in and I knew who was who, I was then firmly hooked. Every detail needs to be listened to and absorbed. I found it hard to get into the book, and ended up listening to the first chapter several times over. If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? Neil conveys this, and ultimately his performance is all the more moving because of this. The book is written in a very concise way, such that every word counts, and yet invites the reader to consider the values on display by the Forsytes. I could see that it might not be to everyones taste, but it was definitely to mine. Neil gives a dry, quite clipped performance. What about Neil Hunt’s performance did you like? Old Jolyon Forsyte, whose humanity and love for his son win out in the end over the judgementalism od his peers. The authenticity rings through, and links those times with our own. This story is of the upper middle classes, lawyers, architects, landlords and auctioneers. We are familiar with dramas of the "upstairs, downstairs" style, involving the upper classes and their servants, or Dickensian explorations of the injustices of the age. It is a nearly contemporaneous account of the attitudes of a sector of Victorian society which has strong parallels in our own times. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
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