Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audiobook star

Re:Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audi... by aequitas on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:24AM (#21571635)

I agree. I once put down an audiobook (Xenocide or Children of the mind, don't remember which one) because I couldn't stand one of the voice actors. She did a Japanese accent so overdone, it was so bad that I just skipped all those sections of the story.

Having the choice between a monotone narration and the voice actors in this case would be a much welcome improvement.

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Re:Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audi... by mwcampbell on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:20AM (#21572998)

At least one of the narrators (who were all American) did a Chinese accent for some sections of Xenocide, and I felt that was the wrong move, considering that the characters were speaking to each other in their native language, not Chinese characters speaking English.

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Re:Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audi... by tomclive on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:17AM (#21571807)

Oh yep. I listened to a full cast reading of The Man of Legends by Kenneth Johnson a couple of months ago and the narration was pretty good on the most part. There was a section that was told from the point of view of a young Hispanic girl and I couldn't understand much of it all. Really annoying.

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