Jordan's comments (member since Oct 18, 2009)

Jordan's comments from the All Ears Audiobooks group.

I'm a young adult librarian and listen to a lot of teen fantasy audiobooks. Some of my favorite narrators include those doing the following books or series:
Artemis Fowl (all time favorite narrator: Nathaniel Parker)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Keys to the Kingdom
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?
Pirates by Celia Rees
Sabriel
Skulduggery Pleasant
The Wee Free Men
Golden Compass (this one is full cast but the author performs the narrator and is amazing. I don't usually like authors reading their own works...hint to Tamora Pierce...but he's got a great voice and performs well)

You can see that I tend toward male British readers, but I don't like Jim Dale. Great voices, but he performs the emotions wrong. For example, the text will clearly say that Harry said something morosely and Dale will be all perky saying it. Distracting for me.

A few adult audiobook narrators I love:
Maisie Dobbs series
Number One Ladies' Detective Agency
Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightingale Floor