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The Collector
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Rigby
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Hannah Murray
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By:
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John Fowles
About this listen
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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs.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.
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- SuziLovesLondon
- 26-04-24
Amazing story
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.
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- Sparkey
- 12-10-23
Dark but moving
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.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-03-22
gripping
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-02-23
Cameron Jukes
What an ending! Had me at a shock but I knew it would happen fantastic reading
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- Mrs E.
- 27-09-23
A hideous masterpiece
This book is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is a masterclass in characterisation. Brilliant.
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- Claire
- 20-12-21
Great Narration, Great Plot
Was unsure due to other reviews criticising the female narrator (and there is no excerpt from ‘Miranda’ on the sample). Took a chance and glad I did- she did an excellent job.
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- Rob Sedgwick
- 09-04-22
Great narration
Daniel Rigby gets this narration spot on, as the deranged "Collector". Solid performance as well from Hannah Murray in this tale of class struggle and imprisonment.
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- Ava Zero
- 07-06-24
FVCKING TERRIFYING
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I loved the first part of the narration, it was very disturbing to be seeing this all play out through his perspective, though in the second part where its from Miranda’s perspective, there were ALOT of pauses in between sentences which threw my focus adrift, other than that, loved the book
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- Helen N.
- 04-05-23
Disappointed
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
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- James
- 21-04-22
An alarming read, with two excellent narrators
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.
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