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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Audio Book Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2000 by Muller, Carol Doup
Jul. 28--Of remaking many books, there is no end. That's not accurately Ecclesiastes, but it surely rings true for audio books. A popular classic in the public domain has more lives than a cat.
Proof of that at present can be found in Simon & Schuster's new line of Family Audio Classics, whose selling point is that they are "read by top Hollywood stars." This, at least, is not an idle boast. If you want a classic family adventure read by a Hollywood star, you're going to zoom right by the "Tom Sawyer" read by Wil Wheaton or Robby Benson to get to the new one read by Paul Newman (2 hours, abridged, $18).
Newman reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and Jack Lemmon reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" are the series' first books; Sally Field...
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