THE BOOK OF JOB

The biblical Book of Job is an ideal subject for full-cast performance, with its various viewpoints, which are essentially a series of soliloquies. Full-Cast Audio needs to be saluted for taking on such a project. Job was a successful landowner and family man until his faith in God was put to the test. With his wealth, his health, and his family taken from him, Job is miserable, but he refuses to curse God. Unfortunately, the resulting audiobook sounds like American actors in an upstate New York studio reading a seventeenth-century translation of an ancient Hebrew epic poem, rather than the pastoral tale of a man in crisis. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 05/ JAN 06]