The Poet, Child 44

I listened to Michael Connelly's The Poet, and just finished that the other day.

It was an interesting experience. The book was a pretty straightforward police procedural -- solid, but not something to blow me away. But the audio really added another dimension to the narrative. The narrator gave even the most minor walk-on characters a distinct voice, even when the actual text doesn't give them so much individuality.

I'm finding Child 44, which I'm also listening to, to be just about the opposite. I love the text, but I find the narrator grating, and I think that he distracts from the story by having all the characters sound almost the same.