Wonder what kind of quality control they have when publishing audiobooks. Some of the narrators sound like they are about to fall asleep any minute. Some of them don’t even have clear pronunciations. Some of them make me feel that they have to do this because they are under the gun point.
With a bad narrator, it is very hard to focus. What is your experience?
by sonickony
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I try am be open minded, but I’m not a huge fan of different voices or bad accents. Not my favourite, though not a game changer.
The House in the Cerulean Sea probably wouldn’t have been my jam anyways, but the narrator’s tone choices infuriated me. The author would specifically state how something was said or the general mood of the conversation and the narrator would read it in a totally different or even contradictory way. Also paused in weird spots occasionally like he’d never read aloud before. I have maybe an hour left to finish the book but it’s never going to happen.
Yup. I will immediately bail on a book if I don’t like the narrator. In contrast, a great narrator can save a book that you might otherwise not have stuck with. Recent example: I listened to Sean Crisden read ‘Erasure’ by Percival Everett—he was so, so good. I don’t know that I would’ve enjoyed the book nearly as much if I hadn’t listened to it.