Re:Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible
by vkou on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:55PM
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I have never listened to the John Lee version, but Dotrice's Essos accents (Missundlei, 'Kuressy') were cringe-inducing, as was his take on 'Brayinne", and "Pee-tyre" Baelish. In the first two books, it also seemed like none of his characters could agree on how to pronounce Jeffry's name.
In books 4 and 5, his voices for established characters, like Arya and Tyrion also went off the rails pretty frequently.
Re:Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible
by retox on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:33PM
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This was very jarring going immediately from one book he narrated to one where he didn't. All the character voices I'd come to recognize were completely different (obviously) and I very quickly lost interest after struggling to follow along. I didn't know he re-recorded the later books, thanks for letting us know.
Re:Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible
by dtparr on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:03AM
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Unfortunately, Dotrice's recordings of the later books diverge so significantly from the first set that it's almost worse than a different person altogether. Character voices are drastically different, names are pronounced differently, etc.
Re:Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible
by Zelphyr on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:05PM
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This is true. He was quite along in age by that point and was clearly having trouble. I'm sure it didn't help that he recorded A Feast for Crows at the same time as A Dance With Dragons and was probably pretty tired. I believe he set a world record for those sessions.
Still, even in his advanced age by that point he was better than John Lee, in my opinion.
It's a shame he won't be around to finish narrating the series. Then again, at the rate George R. R. Martin is going, neither will he be around to finish writing them.