It was so different though when I was a young boy. Nothing can beat cheering up your old mom and hear her greet you on your birthday. How nice it is to hear your old (she is now 76) mother laugh at the end of the line. I no longer received any Hallmark card nor phone call except when I called up my mom in the evening and I my opening was my singing " Happy birthday to mee, happy birthday to mee." and she laughed. I said, whoa it's as if even this audiobook also knows my birthday! You see, with the current technology, one gets too many greetings nowadays: Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter, texts, emails, e-cards. You see, it was my birthday last Wednesday and just a day after that (yesterday), I heard that character in this audiobook singing "Happy Birthday" from my car's stereo. My favorite scene is the one towards the ending when the villain gets teary-eyed because for the first time in his life somebody has just greeted him on his birthday. The characters come alive while listening to him and for a couple of instances while driving, I almost hit speeding cars trying to overtake my lane. The narrator has this ability to create a picture in your mind through his narration. He could change his voice from a boy, a girl, a mother, a witch, an old aunt, a wicked professor, two types of witches, a troll, a pixie, a couple of huldres, etc and he could also sing in various voices! Listening to this talented storyteller is a real treat because for most of the time, I thought I was listening to the audio of the fantasy movies of my young man's life like The Neverending Story or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I liked this fairy tale children's book, Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest partly because of its good-triumph-over-evil theme but more especially for the talented narrator.
I think their reason was they could no longer stand the nastiness and arrogance of their fellow but boss DJ. I also decided to listen to this audiobook this week because my favorite morning radio program has become boring because the two lady DJs seem to have permanently left the station. She is our supplier of audiobooks in our book club. I still prefer reading physical books but I trusted the taste of my friend LS who liked this so much.
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