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I have tried three in a row now that I can't stomach due to the absolutely unbearable readers.
William Dufris is easily my least favorite person alive. I can't even put in to words how AWFUL he is. If I saw him reading a book on youtube I would shut it off unable to stand watching him embarrass himself.
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i think 99% of them are horrible. i liked the harry potter guy and spike for dresden and that's it. everyone book i've listened to samples on grates on my nerves within 10 seconds.
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I almost mentioned that the only readers I like are the soft spoken British readers. The Harry Potter guy (Jim Dale) is good as is Richard Aspel who I think is actually Australian but has that same voice.
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what series does aspel do? i'm in the mood for listening to shit while i doze in my hammock
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I just listened to Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy which was done by him.
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I want my audio books to be read to me, not voice acted out (and the dramatizations of books makes me want to throw things). I'm half tempted to just let my kindle read shit for me.
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robot voice is more distracting than bad acting out imo.
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The middle ground between bad acting and robot voices are these soft spoken British guys.
We need to genetically breed them so they can read all of the books. I demand well cultured British gentleman farms.
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what we need is claudia black reading every book in existence to me. this includes the phone book.
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what we need is claudia black reading every book in existence to me. this includes the phone book.
qft
she did one of the merry gentry books. she was awesome. book sucked...but she was freaking awesome.
so pissed that james marsters didn't do Ghost Story. whoever they had do it just ruins the whole damn thing.
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Maybe because of salary and audition pieces? Even the agency that represents these narrators can be the reasons why they are hired.
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Something I've noticed amongst all of its genre is that America really has no respect for voice actors. Even in things like anime and video games, it's always the same handful of people doing it and often they even have multiple parts in the same series.
Everything else from Disney cartoons to audio books seems to be dominated by semi-washed up actors and comedians that are roped in to the role instead of allowing real talent to grow in the profession. =\
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So I was at the gym right, and everyone had told me audio books when working out are great - time flies, etc. So I got one of my thrashy vampire romance books in audio book format, one guy reading the whole thing.
There I am giving it loads on the treadmill, when the main vampire hero with the main girlie meet a team of evil vampires and this guy does the voices for all the characters. It was so bad, I actually fell off the treadmill and haven't tried an audio book since.
Though I did hear Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter is awesome.
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harry potter has a really good narrator. it's not stephen fry though. jim something.
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