I thoroughly enjoyed Lynn Redgrave's reading of Inkheart, and looked forward to listening to Inkspell. Now I find Brendan Fraser a likeable actor, but his reading of this story is so bad I have given up on it and will read the book instead. He resorts to obnoxious vocal caricatures to differentiate between the various characters -- not sure if this was because he thought it would benefit his listeners, or because he lacked the ability to do something more subtle -- but the result is horrendous: for example, Fenoglio has some generic Bronx/"Joisey" accent, Elinor sounds like Monty Python's Terry Jones in a drag skit (think "Spam"), and the little children's "voices" are so grating it makes me want to slap them, or Brendan, silly. A huge disappointment.