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Narrator Ratings
This is a thread to post your thoughts on different narrators and to give them a rating.
The idea is to give a narrator a rating from 1 (the worst) to 5 (the best) and/or your assessment of them.
If there's enough response, I will try to update this OP with a list of the narrators mentioned and rating given, so that you can easily see in one place what other MobileReaders think.
While this thread could be good even if there were other resources for this kind of thing, it struck me that there is no good place for this sort of thing. The closest is Audible ratings on narration, but they're combined within a book's rating and not easily visible if you're looking for an overview of a narrator or a narrator recommendation.
There might be a limit in scope for this, but MobileReaders are a passionate and opinionated bunch and many of us value each other's opinions.
So... tell us your narrator opinions!
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Ratings through post #88, in alphabetical order:
narrators with two or more ratings and an average above 4 are bolded
- Sophie Amoss- 1.5 stars
- MacLeod Andrews- 1.5 stars
- Edoardo Ballerini- 4 stars
- Seán Barrett- 4 stars
- Cameron Beierle- 3 stars
- Victor Bevine- 4 stars
- Ulli Birvé- 1 star
- R.C. Bray- 4.5 stars
- Scott Brick- unrated
- David (Frederick) Case- see Frederick Davidson
- Jonathon Cecil- 5 stars
- Alexander Cendese- 5 stars
Spoiler:
5- Paperbackstash
'If you ever get a chance to hear the old Perry Mason's, they have most of them on Scribd, I highly recommend one of the most used narrators - I love listening to this guys voice, fits the noir vibe with some of these, and sometimes the voices are a hoot. 5/5 on the Perry Mason series, not sure what my rating would be with other genres. Alexander Cendese. I haven't heard him do any other work besides Perry Mason, but looking at his page he seems to do a lot of romance.'
- Kevin T. Collins- 3 stars
- Tim Curry- 5 stars
- Jim Dale- 5 stars
- Frederick Davidson- 4.7 stars
- Cathy Dobson- 3 stars
- William Dufris- 4.5 stars
- Susan Ericksen- unrated
- Anna Fields- unrated
- Grover Gardner- 4.3 stars
- Marguerite Gavin- 4 stars
- Flo Gibson- 3 stars
- Matt Godfrey- 4 stars
- George Guidall- 4.3 stars
- Kirby Heyborne- 3.2 stars
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith- 5 stars
- Cynthia Holloway- 2 stars
- Michael Jayston- 4 stars
- Katherine Kellgren- unrated
- Grace Lynn Kung- 3 stars
- January LaVoy- 5 stars
- Lisette Lecat- 4.7 stars
- John Lee- 5 stars
- Wanda McCaddon- see Nadia May
- Jane McDowell- 5 stars
- Robert Ian Mackenzie- 4 stars
- James Marsters- 4 stars
- Daniel Thomas May- 4 stars
- Nadia May- 4.8 stars
- Jefferson Mays- 5 stars
- Kate Mulgrew- 4 stars
- Frank Muller- 3.8 stars
- Phyllida Nash- 4 stars
- Trevor Noah- 4 stars
- Peter Noble- 2 stars
- Anna Parker-Naples- 1 star
- Michael Page- 5 stars
- Donada Peters- see Nadia May
- Bronson Pinchot- 4 stars
- Nigel Planer- 5 stars
- Nick Podehl- 4 stars
- Davina Porter- 4.5 stars
- Joseph Porter- 1 star
- Ray Porter- 5 stars
- Philip Pullman- 4 stars
- Edward Raleigh- see Frederick Davidson
- Kate Reading- 4.5 stars
- Ian Richardson- 4 stars
- Barbara Rosenblatt- 5 stars
- Campbell Scott- 4 stars
- Tom Sellwood- 4.5 stars
- Fiona Shaw- 5 stars
- Eileen Stevens- 3 stars
- Juliet Stevenson- 4 stars
- Mark Sullivan- 5 stars
- Nick Sullivan- 4 stars
- Emma Thompson- 1 star
- Stephen Thorne- 4 stars
- Patrick Tull- 5 stars
- Simon Vance- 4.8 stars
- Steven Weber- 4.5 stars
- Tom Weiner- 4.5 stars
- Timothy West- 5 stars
- Will Wheaton- 4 stars
- Jeff Woodman- 5 stars
- Oliver Wyman- 4 stars
- Emily Woo Zeller- 1.5 stars
- Cast Recordings
Spoiler:
JSWolf
'Another audiobook I really enjoyed was Ender's Game Alive by Orson Scott Card. It's a full cast production. Excellent. ... Ender's Game Alive is performed by Kirby Heyborne, Stefan Rudnicki, Theodore Bikel, Scott Brick, Samantha Eggar, Harlan Ellison, Susan Hanfield, Roxanne Hernandez, Janis Ian, Rex Linn, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein, Christian Rummel, and a full cast. Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir .... I'll give this one a 10 out of 10.'
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sun surfer
'[one of my two most-disliked audiobook experiences] was Dune as read by a large cast.'
Last edited by sun surfer; 05-08-2020 at 12:20 PM.
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