Favorite Librivox voices

Audiobooks once seemed a little weird to me (uh, listening in the car, or while working out?  I'd miss something important!!!), but motherhood has made me a convert of sorts.  While that fear of "missing something" still makes me hesitate to tackle fresh material via audio, I find that listening to Jane Austen makes the dishes fly and the laundry fold itself.  All right, overstatement-- but you get the idea.

Librivox offers public domain audiobooks for free; and I hear that public libraries lend audio online, too, although mine would require me to download and install a separate application.

The catch to audiobooks, of course, is that you have to find a voice (as well as text) that will agree with you for hours on end.  Weeding through the samples can be frustrating... So far my favorite Librivox readers are Karen Savage and Elizabeth Klett-- each so clear and pleasant!-- who have recorded a great many comfort classics, such as Burnett's A Little Princess, Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Charlotte Bronte, and (oh yes!) Jane Austen.

What is your favorite source for audiobooks?  In your opinion, is an Audible membership worthwhile...?  I've considered it, although the price makes me balk.

Audiobook: Colin Firth's reading of The End of the Affair (Greene)

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951), narrated by Colin Firth (Audible, 2012)


I just had to purchase it.  The End of the Affair is one of my favorite novels-- and Colin Firth is, well, Mr. Darcy.

Worth the $20?  Most definitely.  It's even better than I'd hoped.... Firth so well conveys the intensity, the conflict within these characters!  And he does it subtly, without drawing attention to himself as the reader/actor:  I'm hearing, not Colin Firth (and not Mr. Darcy!), but the voices of Maurice and Sarah-- sometimes venomous; sometimes sad and weary; and occasionally-- luminously-- at peace.