• huginn@feddit.it
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    7 months ago

    Man I wish I could enjoy Wheaton’s narration style but after trying to listen to John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire and hearing every single character given the same tone deaf voice (literally tone deaf: not like saying racist things but rather had the same sarcastic and smug tone of voice for everyone irrespective of character descriptions or even explicit tones given like “she said morosely”) I refuse to buy another book he has narrated.

    Amber Benson it is then.

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      7 months ago

      Makes me wonder if Wil Wheaton low-key didn’t want to be narrating the book at all, and maybe his sarcastic smug tone was a reflection of how he felt about the whole damn job. Maybe he felt he wasn’t getting paid enough etc

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        7 months ago

        Definitely not. But what does that have anything to do with Wil’s awful narration?

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          7 months ago

          Their narration can be fairly bland from what I’ve heard.

          I don’t like audiobooks, so that’s second hand.