Upon listening to the first hour of the audiobook "Remains of the Day", by Kazuo Ishiguro, the reader sounded strangely familiar. It occurred to me that the narrator of the butler in "Remains" reminded me of Winston from the audiobook version of "1984", and I discovered that Simon Prebble narrated both of these books.
I never thought about how much I associate certain voices with certain stories, so much so that Prebble's voice seems like Winston's actual voice to me. That makes it slightly challenging to listen to "Remains of the Day", except that the storyline seems completely different from 1984.
Still, it's weird, because 1984 is one of my favorite books, and Prebble's voiceover is a big part of that. He is a very good reader though!
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