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It is interesting to hear the experiences of others with audio books as I have never got on with them. For me, it is the reader that is the most important. Readers seem to be chosen almost at random and it ruins the entire experience.
A couple of examples would be Jim Dale and the male that reads The Wheel of Time books. Dale sounds like someone who is trying to eat whole hard boiled eggs whilst having a broom handle inserted up his rectum. The WoT guy sounds like he is trying to make an urgent call on a pay phone and angrily looking for the coins and the number.
This distracts me from the book. Similarly I was sad when I got Windows 7 to find that the only voice available was US female and sounds like she is urgently looking for a toilet. Not even MS "Sam" was available and I have got used to him.
We have all been in the position of turning on the radio and hearing someone read a play or story and been unable to do anything except sit down and listen, to be whisked away into the readers world, so it cannot be that I just do not like audio books.
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