Poll OT: Patrick Stewart's "A Christmas Carol" from Simon & Schuster

[tomswift2002]

A while ago I picked up the audiobook version "A Christmas Carol" read by Patrick Stewart. The packaging for my copy indicates that this reading was done in 1991, so I wonder if the scene of "A Christmas Carol" from "The Devil's Due" (plus as mentioned on the box Stewart's own one-man production) had something to do with this being released when it was, as Stewart's TV version was still 8 years away.

So with it being Christmas right now, what do you think of Stewart's Audio Book version?

 

[Daddy Todd]

My copy is on cassette and I never ripped it into iTunes, so...

 

[bbailey861]

Heard it once on the iPod. Didn't feel the need to go back to it again.

 

[Stevil2001]

How does it compete with Tom Baker's A Christmas Carol?

 

[Chancellor M'rek]

Love this! He is so great at all of the characters. would have paid folding money to see him do it on stage

 

[JD]

I listened to it a few times back when it first came out, but I don't remember it. Is it considered an audiobook read by Stewart? I thought it was a recording of his one man show.

 

[tomswift2002]

As the back cover states "studio recording of his dramatic reading" and "Stewart invites listeners to rediscover the timeless story at its source: Dickens' own classic words".

 

[Daddy Todd]

Thanks to the prompting of this thread, I pulled out the old cassettes yesterday and ripped them. I'll listen as soon as I finish my current audiobook (The Forever War, which is stunning in its casual misogyny and homophobia, btw.)

 

[jaime]

My old cassette version had 'sponsored by Solpadeine' on the front.

And it's true....being dosed on Codeine really does make the reading come alive...I kept nodding off before the end though.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I was in New York in January 1992, and visited the theatre where his one-man version had just finished its run. Some signage was still in place! I am sure I bought the audio version in late 1991, and I played that - and Gates McFadden's reading of the "Reunion" TNG novel - to my US penpal over Christmas '91.