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A Lesson Before Dying
- Narrated by: Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Performance
- Release date: 02-02-07
- Language: English
- Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
Regular price: $6.95
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Publisher's Summary
The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his hometown after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson's. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's fate.
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- Kassie
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- 03-01-07
Great Play
One of the best LA Theatre Works has done. It made me cry. I definitely recommend this one!
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- S. Taylor
- White Plains, NY USA
- 04-26-17
Don't do it
Would you try another book from Romulus Linney and/or the narrators?
Romulus Linney is very good. But this "book" is really just an audio recording of a badly done play version of the book.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Doesn't matter. It was so poorly rendered.
Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?
Absolutely not. It was terrible.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No.
Any additional comments?
Get the original book by Ernest Gaines, or find a good production of the play and go see it. This production has no redeeming value. Bad acting, completely inauthentic accents. Don't even.
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- B. A. Warden
- LA, California US
- 01-21-16
Good story destroyed by a ham fisted performance
The story is a great one. The lead teacher character has a false 'voice of authority' affectation. It's horrible. The other actors are good.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-17-15
Disappointed
What would have made A Lesson Before Dying better?
Record a pure, exact reading by the author or an expert reader, rather than a disappointingly boring dramatization (if you can call it that). I have just listened to Toni Morrison reading The Bluest Eye.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I LOVE the book; it's the reading I have a problem with.
Any additional comments?
Keep supplying readings.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- John
- St. Louis, MO, USA
- 11-17-08
Well done
I loved this, because i personally love it when i can imagine different characters. This was very visual. I would listen to another book like this in a heartbeat
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- devnill
- 09-13-16
Two chapters
There was only two chapters of the book. I don't know if it was because of the free trial or what.
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