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Originally Posted by CRussel
With the main characters in this book being black and African, and the cadence and accent that they would have being substantially different than that of a white South African, I would have preferred a narrator that would be a closer match. (Yes, I know that the characters would be very unlikely to be speaking English at all. Beside the point, at least from MY perspective.)
An example from another book we're reading this month -- the Peter Grant character would be unlikely to be as compellingly persuasive were the narrator white. Certainly, I can't imagine anyone doing it better than Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.
I am not saying that Lisette Lecat doesn't do an excellent job. I have only listened to short samples at this point, but she did sound like she at least got pronunciations correct as well as I can judge. That being said, she didn't sound like Mma "Precious" Ramotswe as MY ear expected.
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The problem is that for most audiobooks is you get one person reading. If that person does voices, you won't get what you expect for most of the characters. The only way to get it the way you want is for the audiobook to be read by a cast. When I listen to an audiobook, I don't check the skin color of the person reading.I check if I can enjoy the reading. If I can, it's a go. If I cannot, it's a stop. But skin color doesn't matter.