At Criterion, we are dedicated to presenting you with the finest in World Cinema. That is why we have decided to release several masterpieces of the 1990s in Audiobook format. Purchase the leather-embossed collectors' edition boxed set today.
The Criterion Audiobook Collection presents:
The Films of Michael Bay
Volume I: "Transformers"
Novelisation by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Sir Ian McKellan
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I...am Sir Ian McKellan, and I will be your raconteur for tonight.
For tonight...you will hear a story of robots. Good robots. Bad robots. And robots...in between.
(Sir Ian sighs contentedly before continuing).
Optimus Prime stretched his full, blue, metallic arms to the warm caress of the morning sun. Delicately brushing a loose patch of rust from his gleaming, robotic forehead, he looked fondly at his human assistant sitting cross-legged on the plump duvet below.
Optimus: You...helped me, John.
Thick, dark tears rolled very slowly down Optimus's precisely machined steel cheeks.
(And here I must affect a working-class American accent, listeners, so do forgive me.)
John: Yo! It ain't nothin', Opt!
(And here I must remind the listener that Optimus knew that this child was not worthy of his majestic protection, yet to the very end, he did not shirk his duty).
Optimus: It meant the world to me. How you saved us Autobots from certain destruction. And if...
(Optimus pauses, then haltingly continues)
...if love between a human and a robot is possible, then I believe we have gone some way towards achieving that love, John.
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Other titles in this magnificent series:
"Con Air", from the novelisation by Rick Moody; narrated by Ralph Nader
"The Rock", from the novelisation by E Annie Proulx; narrated by Harold Bloom
Price:
$199.00 (cloth bound)
$599.00 (Moroccan goat chamois)
Please note that gold edging is $49.00 extra
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