A short excerpt from Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, narrated by Ambrose. Try other narrators below, then bring your own DRM-free copy to hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Ambrose
Crisp, measured male voice, ideal for formal announcements, premium trailer narration, and command-forward presentation scripts.
When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.
The shape of it, to begin with.
The very first time I saw her, it was the back of the head I saw, and there was something lovely about it, the angles of it.
Like a shiny, hard corn kernel or a riverbed fossil.
She had what the Victorians would call a finely shaped head.
You could imagine the skull quite easily.
I’d know her head anywhere.
About this sample
Nick’s opening about his wife’s head is unsettling because it is calm. Ambrose reads it measured and crisp, which is exactly the wrong kind of calm, in the right way.
The excerpt is the book’s opening passage, a few sentences long, generated with the same narration pipeline the app uses for whole books. Every narrator you can pick above is available for your own files, in this and 40+ other languages.
How to listen to all of Gone Girl
1.
Get a DRM-free ebook of Gone Girl (see the guide on where to find DRM-free ebooks; store purchases with DRM cannot be opened).
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Drop the file above or open Book2Speech and choose it. Chapters are detected and front matter is skipped.
3.
Pick Ambrose or any other narrator and press play. The narration streams within seconds and your position syncs to the iPhone app.
What this page is not
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Questions people ask
Can I download an audiobook of Gone Girl here?
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Yes. Tap any voice above to hear the same passage; 260+ narrators are available for your own books.
Is the sample the real product?
Yes. It was generated by the same pipeline that narrates whole books in the app.