![]() ![]() As voiced by Jill Clayburgh, that watchful adult is wry and wondering, when the character isn’t keen and knowing. But she and Jamie are, like the Baudelaires, alone throughout most of this classic, which is told from the point of view of a watchful (but non-interfering) adult. KonigsburgĬlaudia and Jamie’s adventures as orphans in the Met are entirely self-inflicted, and Claudia is much more a Count Olaf in the making than she is a Violet or Klaus or Sunny. It will remind you that-when you are grieving the Baudelaires’ endless bad luck-things could always be worse.Ĥ. Carefully paced and imbuing Coraline with the kind of openness that kids possess even when the world feels closed off to them, this audiobook is the perfect spookfest. Neil Gaiman is one of the most dependable author-narrators in the industry, and his reading of this terror of a bedtime-story-gone-wrong finds him at the top of his game. The Artemis Fowl series is a better recommendation for Violet, as endless inspiration for her various inventions, than it is to ASoUE fans in general, but who knows when any of us will be thrust from normal life into a Baudelairian fight for survival? We might as well let Nathaniel Parker’s cultured brogues and all the disparate accents found in an underground fairy-cop precinct inspire us, too. Ireland’s youngest criminal mastermind could destroy Count Olaf in one go, but unfortunately for the Baudelaires, he’s busy fighting against and alongside the United Kingdom’s various species of fairy. Curry’s base narration is also fantastic-his British accent lends it more of a bedtime story vibe than Warburton’s (or, in alternate audio recordings, Lemony Snicket’s own) American-accented gloom-and-doom tellings-but it is Curry’s Olaf that so thoroughly sells this version of the series. While Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is driven by basso profundo of Patrick Warburton’s narration, the original audiobook adaptation found its vitality in Tim Curry’s deliciously unctuous portrayal of the villainous Count Olaf (no one does an unctuous villain as deliciously as Tim Curry). Let’s start with the book series that inspired the show. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket Here are 10 audiobooks that will make the ASoUE-loving parts of your soul sing:ġ. But when you’ve finished binge-watching the atmospherically stupendous nightmare, what should you do? Might we suggest diving into an audiobook while you are playing with your toy rocks or making your nightly puttanesca or paddling around a foggy cove in a slowly sinking boat? Netflix’s take on Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events returns to heap a second season of misery on the Baudelaire orphans today. ![]()
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