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The Collector

By: John Fowles
Narrated by: Daniel Rigby, Hannah Murray
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, whom he watches from afar. When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex country house and painstakingly works to make the cellar a comfortable prison. He then calmly abducts Miranda, believing that she will inevitably grow to love him in time if she just gets to know him.

Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor and gain her freedom.

Taught and utterly compelling, Fowles' debut novel The Collector was an instant best seller when it was published in 1963. It is regarded as one of the best thrillers of all time with one of the most terrifying villains to have ever been created on the page.

©1963 John Fowles (P)2021 Penguin Audio Horror Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Exciting Fiction

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Brilliant! I have read The Collector many times and wanted it in audio format. Unfortunately the female narrator was so flat and monotone. Such a discredit to a great character such as Miranda.

Amazing story

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Thoroughly enjoyed and broadly in agreement with other feedback about 2nd half of the book.
Felt really sad about the ending - which I was surprised by given the genre.

Dark but moving

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The story starts off at a running jump, as does the narration. Initially I struggled to digest the book as the first narrator is incredibly pacy, eventually I became accustomed to the racing along only for the narration to switch to the victims voice. whilst I really enjoyed Hannah Murray's reading of 'good me, bad me' by Ali Land, she narrates at a different pace to the first narrator which I found jarring. Although interesting to hear the voice of the victim, this books real strength is in the complexity of it's main character. I'd recommend this audiobook based on the character of Frederick alone. Not your typical villan, Frederick is a fascinating and well narrated character.

gripping

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What an ending! Had me at a shock but I knew it would happen fantastic reading

Cameron Jukes

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This book is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is a masterclass in characterisation. Brilliant.

A hideous masterpiece

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I struggled to keep listening through part three, I think it was. The female narrator spoke in a monotone. I'm sure she was trying to give the impression of depression and loneliness, but it didn't match her actions. Maybe she had been told to read it like that, but it was tedious. And the character she played was such a pretentious young woman, not very likeable. I became irritated and bored with the book. Possibly I would still have disliked that part if I had been reading it, but the narration made it worse. Once that part ended I became interested again, and I was glad I heard the ending. On the whole, the story was interesting, and I might have given it a higher rating if I had read it myself.

The female narration spoiled this for me.

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wonderful, engaging and insightful. still relevant to audiences today, concerning the class divide in England. incredible narration

get this book if you liked wasp factory

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Great book, Hannah Murray does a great job but the second half of the book isn't as strong as the first. I wish she talked about her time down there rather than her life outside, I think a lot of readers feel this way and that is why they say the female narration ruins it, but I think it's just that her section is weak.
Overall though I really enjoyed the story and would listen again.

really enjoyed. great narration

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I read this book around 30 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the male narrator to be very good but unfortunately the female narrator spoiled it. Her voice was devoid of life and character and made listening to be tedious and a chore that had to be done to get back to the good bit. It's a shame because I would have loved to have given this book a much better review

Disappointed

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Daniel Rigby is perfectly creepy as the narrator of the first half of the book. Some reviewers haven't enjoyed Hannah Murray as Miranda, but I thought she was excellent. A claustrophobic and genuinely upsetting performance.

An alarming read, with two excellent narrators

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