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Posted 2015-11-21 8:20 PM (#11881 - in reply to #11880)
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devilinlaw - 2015-11-21 9:00 PM
Badseedgirl - 2015-11-21 5:48 PM I have listened to full cast books but have found that I actually prefer the single reader. I'm not sure why. I just finished The Naked Sun read by William Dufris from Penguin Random House Publishing Group. I think these novels from the 50's lend themselves quite well to an audiobook format. I have started Have Space Suit - Will Travel read by Mark Turetsky up next.
I listened to Have Space Suit - Will Travel in a full cast audio a couple of months ago. Everyone had the the appropriate "gee whiz" kind of delivery suited to the feel of the book. It was the math that I had a hard time with...the lots and lots of math. I know that Heinlein had an ax to grind about education in the US (as seen by a few of the rants of Kip's father in the book) but it at times seemed like it was a textbook instead of a juvenile science fiction romp, lol.

I also heard that version of Have Space Suit Will Travel.  Some of the cast were kids, or at least they sounded like kids, which is appropriate I suppose since the book was aimed at young readers.  But I agree with you in that I prefer a single reader over a cast.  On occasion an audio book is read by multiple readers, but not as a cast.  Ender's Game read by Stefan Rudnicki et al is an example.


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