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The Dead and Other Stories (Penguin Classics on Audio)

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I have long been fascinated and strengthened by the melancholy, slow, gentle, thoughtful readings of each of the Dubliners stories, some dozen, by Richard Setlock for the Commuter's Library series, still available, as these, in cassette tape only, such as at The Dead and Grace (Commuter's Library S.) as well as The Sisters. These recodings with Setlock have a slow nobilit and portentous meaning un heard in our carpet chewing expressionist readings.

nevertheless, we may find some reasoned alternative in these Gerard McSorley redingsof three of the talesÑ The Dead, of course, and also Grace and the Sisters, in which cSorley reaches for incarnating the women's voices and varius timbres of the characters.

You might remember McSorley from Dublin's Abbey Theatre, or from Braveheart, etc.

Nevertheless, to hear Setlock read Iy Day in the Comittee Room is a revelation and the light.

A fine effort here by McSorley, yet I remain longing for the Setlock reading . . .

LATER:
Okay, so I love the Setlock reading, so measured, so restrained, not trying to do the women's voices as women, so melancholy as a dreary rainy cold evening, but this is starting to make sense to me too, as if the fog is lifting, and sure, this works as well. My heart and ears remain with Setlock, but, go with this one, as well, to supplement. Joyce is always so multi-faceted that this reading is also highly instructive.