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Treasure Island
- An Audible Original Drama
- Narrated by: Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Summary
Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny, starring Catherine Tate (BAFTA-nominated, The Catherine Tate Show, The Office, Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Outcast, Life On Mars), Owen Teale (Game of Thrones, Pulse, Last Legion) and Daniel Mays (The Adventures of Tintin, Rogue One, Atonement) amongst others.
Featuring: Stephen Critchlow, James Doherty, Philip Glenister, Peter Gold, Ed Harrison, David Holt, Gerran Howell, Matthew Jure, Daniel Mays, Gerard McDermott, Paul McEwan, Harry Myers, Greg Page, Richard Reed, Mark Straker, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale and Ben Whitehead.
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- Ailill Martin
- 30-08-17
A Proper Adventure
The story itself reads like the blueprint for all swashbuckling pirate adventures. The brilliantly original characters are brought to life by equally excellent voice actors accompanied by delicious sound effects of the sea and the strange atmosphere of the mysterious treasure island. I was swept along by the many twists and turns of the plot and the gruff tones of the pirates that are intertwined in them.
This is exactly how dramatisations should be executed.
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- David Brunt
- 24-07-18
The treasure is here.
Ah, this is a very good adaptation of a classic tale. Owen Teale is a charismatic monster as John Silver, perfect. Catherine Tate brings warmth and humour to the play. Daniel Mays is by turns funny and tragic as Ben Gunn Philip Glanister plays the doctor like a classic matinee hero. And then there is Stephen Critchlow and particularly Gerran Howell holding the whole play together. In short it's not just a starry cast but one that is perfectly matched to the material.
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- Mikey
- 17-08-17
All - star treasure island
Any additional comments?
Truth be told when I first saw Catherine Tate was included among the star studded narrators chosen for this original dramatised version of one of my all time favourite fiction stories, I was pessimistic to say the least. But boy how wrong I was.
Coming from R.L Stevenson's home place of birth in the seaside town of Dorset, I feel a special affinity with this story. I have got hold of all the different versions of this story possible, so I was intrigued to see how this version, although dramatised, would be any different.
Well I can tell you now I was captivated and highly entertained throughout the entire audiobook. I hate to steal the line that you may find on other reviews for dramatised books, but this really was like being involved in a film which was being played to me inside my head. I am currently looking forward to listening to it again, so much so I have placed other books I am looking forward to listening to on the back-burner.
This was a great time to release this audiobook, this would be even more captivating listening from a beach! Whether you will be listening from a beach or on the bus, in your car, home or the comfort of your bed as you slowly wind down for an evening, I am certain you'll have the same experience.. this was great fun!
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- siobhan brophy
- 01-10-17
I was enthralled from the get go
Great book, great story and was read beautifully read. As I sat in the dark and listened, I could picture every scene. I was there!
would highly recommend.
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- Ricky
- 29-09-17
enjoy it is a new wine with a vintage taste
as one would expect a amazing cast and a epic tale read by epic character brought to life in a truly classical way
enjoy it is a new wine with a vintage taste
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-12-17
Excellent adaption.
Thoroughly enjoyed this version of Treasure Island. Faithful to the book but with enough dramatic licence to keep it original and entertaining and helped even further by a wonderful cast. Superb.
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- T. Archibald
- 20-09-17
very enjoyable
After watching the black sails show on prime video I wanted to read treasure island to continue the story of the show which was a prequel of sorts. Then I found this on audible and it was what I was looking for and the cast with some good names convinced me to buy
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- AceWholes
- 17-12-17
The Best Audio Book I've Ever Listened To
A truly brilliant audio book, with a great story, and a exceptional performance by all of the cast. This will definitely be listened to again and again. Please make more!
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- Boomshanks
- 26-08-17
really good
loved it. exciting and a good tale to get into. cant beat it a bit of shwashbuckling
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- daisyrock
- 05-10-17
Really good
An excellent adaptation. Always a joy to hear Philip Glenister and Owen Teale was magical as Long John. Lots of light and shade to the performances. Excellent.
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- G. Vanlo
- 11-09-19
Hard to listen to.
This book was hard to listen to, very loud and annoying. Too many sound effects. Would have been better if the story was just told.
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- Patrick Henderson Jr
- 11-09-19
The actual book is better.
I prefer a reading or a dramatic reading. This version is more of a dramatization.
40 people found this helpful
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- Jenne
- 07-09-19
Disappointed
I had hoped this was an actual BOOK.... it’s basically Netflix in your earbuds. Not impressed. Glad I didn’t pay for it. But hey! Maybe you all will like it!! :)
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- Jaclyn Little
- 11-09-19
Bored from the jump
Struggled to get into the book so I couldn't even finish it. Or really even start it for that matter.
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- Rachel Heisel
- 07-09-19
Hard to Listen to
I wanted to like this story but I couldn't finish listening to it. The reader was too difficult to understand.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-09-19
Not good
it was not very good for my taste. I would not recommend to a friend
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- Stacy
- 03-08-19
I Thought it Would be the Book
This is good for a dramatization, but I had thought I was downloading the actual book. I looked to see if it said it was abridged, but it didn't. I think I the word, "reimagining" was their attempt at indicating that it wasn't the original text, but I took that to mean dramatized. I wish whenever it isn't the original text, they would say so plainly.
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- Cole MacGrath
- 09-09-19
This is not the Treasure Island I remember
I knew going into this that it was not a direct reading of the source material, but it feels divorced from the original content. I normally like audio plays, but this one left me wanting.
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- Tad Davis
- 12-09-17
A reflective adventure
The Audible dramatization of Treasure Island is excellent, with only a few false steps. Owen Teale is great as Silver, with his combination of flattery and ruthlessness. (I would have expected no less of Alliser Thorne.) But that points to one of the false steps here: the cast is named but not the parts they play; I was able to confirm that Teale was Silver only by locating a press release online. That seems a little ungenerous to my way of thinking.
For the record: besides Teale, Philip Glenister is Dr Livesey; Daniel Mays is Ben Gunn; Catherine Tate is Jim's mother. And who among the named cast plays Jim Hawkins, who with his narration has by far the most audio time? No idea. Even Audible'a promotional video doesn't mention him.
Another false step is that there are long gaps of silence between scenes. It's not unusual for an audio play to observe a moment of silence to mark a transition. But here, the gaps between scenes last several seconds; a couple of times I wondered if I'd gone into sleep mode by mistake. These gaps seem tailor-made for some linking music to be added in post-production, but there isn't any. It affects the pace. The gaps seem to slow things down. (There IS music from time to time, usually to set a somber or threatening tone.)
It's a subdued production: a quiet, gritty Treasure Island, one that avoids flashy swashing and buckling in favor of soft and sinister exchanges. And it's a reflective adaptation: with the help of a few lines and a couple of scenes not in the book, it creates a much stronger sense of moral ambiguity than in the book. The Jim Hawkins who returns from the voyage is a very different person than the boy who left, and the difference is bittersweet and satisfying.
In general the production adheres closely to the events of the book — including lots of narration from Jim Hawkins — but it does make some changes. Some scenes are expanded with additional dialogue to good effect (Israel Hands is given a chance to shine, as is Silver's parrot); other changes are apparently made just for the sake of change. Abraham Gray, a brave and honest seaman in the book, is presented here as a sniveling coward.
But despite its subdued tone, and a few changes I found jarring, I found it a compelling listen, one that drew me in by its quiet intensity rather than histrionics. I put that down to the excellence of the cast and the sound design. It's an oddly intimate version of an action-packed adventure.
A version of Treasure Island stands or falls by its Long John Silver and its Jim Hawkins. Both are excellent here: multifaceted and multilayered. And they are given a "necessary scene" at the end that is missing from the book; it's a scene that appears in several film versions of the story, but here it's given straight, without a trace of sentimentality.
The producers have given themselves (and the writer) enough runtime to develop the story much more fully than is usually the case. I enjoyed it a lot, and I recommend it.
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- Just bein' rational
- 07-09-19
unusable as Audible th appreciate actors efforts
this is recorded like a play with wonderful authentic accents mostly Cockney English. While I would love this in a play, it was not recorded well enough with separate mics to work as an audible. I could not hear enough to make it enjoyable regardless of volume
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