I mean that if there’s more than one character in the book there should be a Jeff Hayes doing the role instead of one [lesser] narrator doing all the voices.
The experience of an audiobook is meant to be as immersive and as close to the written text as possible.
well I’m sure that whoever is producing the audiobook puts an effort into selecting the right narrator but if it's not Jeff Hayes I’m taken out of the experience.
One example that comes to my mind is the example of Jim Dale with the Harry Potter books, his performance is not bad (I prefer Stephen Fry anyway) but his Hermione is horrendous and given how heavily Hermione is featured the books it made getting through his version impossible. This would have been improved with Jeff Hayes
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by LucidFir
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Jeff Hays is good (I’ve only read the first DCC book), but my first real introduction to audiobooks was Jim Dale with the Harry Potter series. Agree to disagree but to me Dale is still the absolute pinnacle 🤷