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devilinlaw
Posted 2015-11-03 6:05 PM (#11703 - in reply to #11700)
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spectru - 2015-11-03 3:26 PM
Adjoa Andoh narrated Sword and Mercy, but not Justice. I think it's unusual to change narrators mid-series. Perhaps you weren't the only one not to care for the audiobook narrator for the first book.


I appreciated the effort put into it and even the work by Ms. Ciulla to create the unique delivery of her lines but it was just difficult to stay focused with her near-monotone. The character voices she used did not have this same lack of emotional quality at all but since the story is told from the POV of a ship's AI, the majority of the narration is in the same vein.

For me, it's similar to when I read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I appreciate artistically that the main character is obsessed with what everyone is wearing but I don't really want to read through pages and pages of descriptions of everyone clothing labels. Or when I tried to read Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore for the first time. I had a hell of a time getting through the first part because the narrative is told in a first-person perspective by a prehistoric man who is dimwitted even by the standards of his own tribe. Artistically it was interesting to read, "A-hind of hill, ways off to sun-set-down, is sky come like as fire, and walk I up in way of this, all hard of breath, where is grass colding on I's feet and wetting they" (this is the first sentence in the book), but fifty-six pages in this same style was exhausting.

Artistically, I appreciate what these authors/performers are doing. Practically, however, it can be a bit hard to digest.

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