11-16-2019, 11:38 AM | #1 | |
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The Secret Life of the Audiobook Star
'Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts': the secret life of the audiobook star
Here's an interesting article about narrators: Quote:
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11-16-2019, 02:28 PM | #2 |
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I read this earlier today, and highly recommend it.
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Well, I've got two off the cuff responses:
Bryson is a dreadful narrator; he is most assuredly not an exception to the rule that authors should write and leave the narration to the pros. Uh, it's not as if there were no recording facilities in the entire state of New Hampshire. Bryson lived in Hanover. You can walk across the state line (on a bridge) to Vermont from Hanover; it's on the border. The article makes it sound like an overland journey, up hill and down dale, to get to Vermont from Bryson's location, when it fact it was just that the Vermont facility was closest. New England states are small! I can take in three just doing my errands. |
11-16-2019, 04:09 PM | #4 |
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I'm not as negative as you are about Bryson, but I do wish he'd let a professional do it.
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11-17-2019, 04:39 AM | #5 |
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I don't think that Bill Bryson is all that bad. There is a certain style of book where having the author read it works. Simon Winchester is another author who narrates his own books. I really like him reading his own books. Both Bryson and Winchester write books where it's basically the author having a conversation with the reader.
An interesting article. I agree with what one of the voice actors said in the article, audiobook narration really is a unique skill and talent set. Last edited by pwalker8; 11-17-2019 at 04:43 AM. |
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