"BRILLIANCE" AUDIO-BOOK – MOST BRILLIANT

SUPER COMPANION PIECE TO DUTTON’S HARDBACK BOOK.

I’m no marketing-genius. (Didn’t get those genes.)

And, I’m not a pitchman. (Though I did give it a test-drive at 20, by going door-to-door trying to sell Encyclopedia Britannica to lonely housewives. My salesmanship lasted about 6 hours, before I determined it was not for me.

However, I do appreciate quality productions, and I have to say I was totally unprepared for what unfolded this afternoon.  

My copy of the audio-book, MOST EVIL arrived in the mail. Talk about high-tech, “Unabridged. Complete book on 1 MP3-CD. Bonus Disc contains interactive gallery of images from the book, and it’s I-POD Ready.”


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 Being three-quarters dinosaur, I don’t know what all that means. All I know is, I put it in my computer and it worked! I listened to two-excerpts today, First the two-page INTRO chapter, for an initial impact. Then I went straight to Chapter 25, as I particularly wanted to see how the actor/reader, Malcolm Hillgartner had handled this, his MOST DIFFICULT soliloquy. (Malcolm and I have never met nor spoken to each other in person.) Obviously, I was rather anxious to hear his reading of this long six-page “Parable of the Sparrows” letter written by my dad and mailed to me from Manila, back in 1980.

Here is what I say in Chapter 25 as an introduction to my father’s letter:

“Roughly four months later, I received the following very personal reply. It was by turns sad, cruel, tender, and fatalistic, and the clearest peek I know of into my father’s complex, bifurcated mind.”

After hearing Mr. Hillgartner’s rendition of this letter, I WAS TRULY BLOWN AWAY! 

Let me say to you here and now, Mr. Hillgartner YOU NAILED IT. It really was as if my father was talking directly to me. You captured the essence of both his awkward, but caring DR. Jekyll and his twisted but confident, Mr. Hyde.  Thank you for that.Most remarkable!  

For those of you that want an added experience and a synergy to the book, I highly recommend Malcolm Hillgartner’s inspirational reading as a companion piece. He has done an amazing job of making MOST EVIL SPEAK. Bravo Sir!

UPDATE  10/5/09-  BRILLIANCE AUDIO HAS KINDLY ALLOWED ME TO POST THEIR INTRO TO THE BOOK, SO HERE IS MALCOLM HILLGARTNER READING THE TWO PAGE INTRODUCTION. (Length of reading 5 minutes)

CLICK HERE- Most Evil Intro.mp3   

Malcom’s impressive “backlist”  include: American Gangster, Twilight Eyes, Snow Angels and many more.

 Other readings by Malcolm Hillgartner

 

 

 

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