Thread: Audio book to ebook
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Old 05-22-2011, 07:37 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Ericp View Post
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.

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Well, different strokes for different folks. I really like Dale, though I can't say that I've heard him read anything other than the Harry Potter books.
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