Charmaine Neufeld
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I’ve read the Vorkosigan books many times and continue to love them! In recent years I’ve moved mainly to reading audiobooks. I would like to listen to this series on repeat cause Miles is just one of my favourites, but the narrator is not. Any thoughts on having the audiobooks redone with a narrator that reflects more of Miles personality?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope, none whatsoever. Blackstone has been doing a great job for years at getting all my titles out, both at online vendors and in libraries.
Narrator's voice and style seem to be a very personal taste, like cilantro. I hear from plenty of folks who love Grover Gardner's, a few now and then like you who bounce off.
I'm not a big audio consumer myself; for whatever reason spoken prose does not flow seamlessly into pictures in my head the way written does. It may be a matter of practice, which may shift as my eyes age, but since my ears are aging even faster, who knows.
Ta, L.
Nope, none whatsoever. Blackstone has been doing a great job for years at getting all my titles out, both at online vendors and in libraries.
Narrator's voice and style seem to be a very personal taste, like cilantro. I hear from plenty of folks who love Grover Gardner's, a few now and then like you who bounce off.
I'm not a big audio consumer myself; for whatever reason spoken prose does not flow seamlessly into pictures in my head the way written does. It may be a matter of practice, which may shift as my eyes age, but since my ears are aging even faster, who knows.
Ta, L.
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Tara Bozarth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you know if the paperback reprint of Borders of Infinity includes the interactions between Simon and Miles? It is one of the few things I don't own in the series. Reviews and summaries are very confusing because they include various printings and various formats for the various reprinting of both the story and the book.
Promiscuous Bookworm
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just pre-ordered the Ukrainian translation of Shards of Honor and just wanted to say I'm so happy that Ukrainian readers who don't read in English can finally get acquainted with the Vorkosigan Saga in their mother tongue (and I have an excuse to re-read it for the fourth time). (Adding a ? because Goodreads wants it to actually look like a question.)
Josh Angel
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I was reading through the questions you've answered on Goodreads, and I was struck by how much your answers read as if written by Desdemona herself. I mean that in the best possible way, as I find her quite funny. I know all the characters are technically "you", but I was wondering if there may be a little more "you" written into Desdemona than other characters?
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