I experienced the classic novella Heart of Darkness through the animated voice of the acclaimed Kenneth Branagh, which I daresay is the ideal way to go about ‘reading’ this book.  It worked particularly well for two reasons: The novella is written in the style of a story that is being told aloud to his shipmates, so audiobook works particularly well Branagh’s interpretation of the text and intonation on certain phrases was, in my view, a preferable interpretation of the text than could otherwise be read. […]