This is just a fun hypothetical. Because the book itself has so many strange formats and, in the words of a friend who read it, it is "unhinged", I understand why there is currently no audio book and realistically never will be.
But a few friends and I were pondering what an audio version would sound like, and what *interesting* actor would be the perfect person to do the narration. Again this is just for fun, and I'm looking for imaginative replies, not necessarily realistic ones.
by NightReader5
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Hopefully, by his sister
I don’t think there is any way this story could be narrated or existed in any other format. Like I literally can’t even imagine a narrator to start with.
Oh shit.
Maybe Johny Truant’s POV like a shitty recording and the other side him either reading it in his more lucid moments, going down and down. Or a full lecture-style narration of the Navidson Record.
Would have to be a neurotic choose your own adventure type thing, couldn’t be all one track. Maybe.
Ideally you layer each chapter overtop the previous chapter in the mix. What comes out will be the essence of the book. It would sound white noise-ish. I’d also imagine that if the volume was low then it’d sound like inside the labyrinth
You’d have to completely adapt it to a new medium. Like, make the Navidson Record an immersive audio drama, make Truant’s bit a podcast about it, etc etc.
It could be possible if it was read linearly with the footnotes and appendices and with image descriptions, but it might be the most boring audiobook ever at some points… full pages of names, layered text turned into layered audio (borderline unlistenable I imagine), reversed audio. It would be cool, but not the same. Maybe some of the formatting could be interpreted as pitch changes