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Dorie - Cats&Books :)
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May 14, 2015 09:35PM
Does anyone else wish that there was a section on audible that listed books with multiple narrators? I find that I get bored with the same narrator throughout the book. Not always just sometimes and I wish I could quickly see the multiple narrated ones.
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not all multiple narrator books are dramatized though I do agree - I wish there was a way to search for narrators - one, two, male, female etc
I would like ithat listing for the opposite reason. I usually prefer one narrator who can do multiple voices. If there are multiple narrators, I would like a sample of each. It has happened that I didn't know there was a second narrator and I disliked that person's style. An exception was Shotgun Lovesongs where there are 4 narrators (I think) and I liked them all.
has anyone listened to an awesome book with multiple narrators recently?
The Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Brilliant.
Robin wrote: "I would like ithat listing for the opposite reason. I usually prefer one narrator who can do multiple voices. If there are multiple narrators, I would like a sample of each. ..."I agree with Robin. I would hate to be "ambushed" with a narrator I hadn't been able to sample.
Sometimes I get really urked by the male narrator trying out a female voice and vice versa! Does anyone else ever think that?
I think it is a difficult feat for a narrator to render believably the voice of the other gender. I'm amazed that so many narrators do it so well. I'm thinking of Grover Gardener, Kate Reading, Simon Preble, Davina Porter, Barbara Rosenblatt, George Guidall. There are quite a few others that please me.
I would rather hear one narrator doing voices from the other gender than have multiple narrators in order to avoid this. That becomes a dramatisation, which is something else altogether. I don't mind if narrators don't try too hard to do different voices; I'd much rather the book was well read (in terms of inflexion and meaning) than well acted -- again, I'm making the distinction between an audiobook and a dramatisation.
