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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury was a read by a bunch of different narrators. It's OK, definitely sets the stories apart, but I think I prefer just a couple/few really good narrators to many. It can be a bit too jarring. It's especially bad when they're trying to fluff it up with famous names. For instance, Harlan Ellison isn't a bad reader, but he's certainly not my favorite. Neither is George Takei. I noted some of them in my review here:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Unfortunately for me, Ellison pops up in many of the otherwise astounding multivoiced productions done by Skyboat Media, currently my favorite audiobook producer...i tried listening to him, but for pete's sake, he screams, as if he had some kind of hearing problem... not for me :(
yeah. I'm another fan of Skyboat Media & Rudnicki, but Ellison's reading of his anthology Voice from the Edge, vol 1: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream was awful. He whispers & screams. I spent far too much time adjusting the volume.
LA Theater Works is great too, they record like a stage show, I think some are actual shows.http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_h...+
The anthology Dangerous Women with George R. R. Martin as one of the editors has a different narrator for each story... results vary.The free short story anthology from the Legend of Drizzt series also has varied narrators... also varied results.
Orson Scott Card did a radio play version of Ender's Game that is over seven hours and has a different narrator for each part... I prefer the original Ender's Game, but the radio play is interesting and well done.
Neil Gaiman did a full-cast version of The Graveyard Book, but I didn't have a problem with the one he narrated all by himself.
I did like Gaiman's American Gods with a full-cast production though.
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (other topics)Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (other topics)
The Vampire Archives (other topics)




i was wondering if any of you encountered other similar "editorial endevours" :)