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Old 08-26-2014, 04:12 PM   #2901
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
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Looks like the two have different narrators: shorter says it has Donada Peters, longer is Nadia May. Since they're both unabridged, perhaps one of the readers performs slower/uses more dramatic narrative effects?

I guess it depends on whose voice you might prefer from the samples.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey View Post
Some narrators speak faster/slower than others, which explains the time difference.
I was being somewhat deliberately obtuse, but the crux is that Ms. May and Ms. Peters are the same person. Clearly she made two recordings on two different dates and my guess is that she was commissioned by two different companies to read this public domain book, but it seems a little silly to see them both listed at Audible. Even though one is slower than the other, I would imagine that fans of Ms. May/Peters would go with the cheaper one.

Noms de lecteur for audiobook narrators kind of bug me. I try to remember who's who, but it's a nuisance. I suppose it's a way of differentiating between types of books for some of them, but mostly I can't discern a pattern anyway. As with Ms. May/Peters/McCaddon (another name she reads by).
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