I used to have a 13-LP set of Shakespeare plays, staged with sound effects and incidental music. I still have a CD set (MP3s) of Star Wars adapted for radio by, I believe, the BBC. It also featured several actors (including Mark Hammill himself) as well as sound effects.
Once in a while I think of a book I'd like to buy as an audiobook -- Finnegans Wake, say, or Angela's Ashes.
But inevitably, they's dull dull dull, read by a monotone actor in a heavily-padded control booth so it sounds like he's stuck inside a cupboard.
Why why why.