"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine Narrative passages in the complicated plot benefit from Prebble's natural speech patterns-clear, very British, and so suited to the text as to sound as if he wrote them himself. Simmons describes Dickens bizarre obsessions (violence and hypnotism) and warns that his narrator should not be trusted. Unfortunately for me, Drood proved to be somewhat. His newest book, Drood, explores the final dark years of Charles Dickens and the untold story of Dickens unfinished work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. I think his book, The Terror, was one of the finest horror/historical novels ever written, and I was hoping for more of the same with Drood. Collins's increasingly frequent bouts of paranoia sound convincingly terror-filled, without seeming "performed." And Dickens's self-important growls of pretension lead the listener to dislike him as much as Collins does. Let me start out by first saying that I’m a big, big fan of the novels by Dan Simmons and have been for over a decade. He effortlessly shifts among the story's many characters, imbuing each not only with a voice and dialect, but also with a distinct personality. Simon Prebble's impeccable speech is the perfect match for this sinister Dickensian tale. 775 pages 26.99) In 2007's 'The Terror,' his re-creation of the doomed Franklin arctic expedition, Dan Simmons, author of 'Hyperion,' 'Carrion Comfort. Through an opium haze, Collins endeavors to find him, even as his hatred for his friend grows. Wilkie Collins, friend and sometime collaborator of Charles Dickens, listens with horror to Dickens's account of meeting a purported master of the black arts.
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