open

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Forums

You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )
Posting a reply to: Re: Audiobook Reading Challenge 2015 - 2016

Back
General Discussion -> Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge
Guest name
Subject
Message

Emoticons
HTML: Yes
Anonymous: No
MBBS Code: Yes


 Disable HTML
Enable emoticons



You are replying to:
devilinlaw
Posted 2015-11-02 11:42 AM (#11677 - in reply to #11670)
Subject: Re: Audiobook Reading Challenge 2015 - 2016		Quote Reply



Veteran

Posts: 112
100
Location: Las Vegas, NV		This is an awesome challenge! 90% of the reading I do is via audiobooks. While I'm I spend my time commuting, working out or even working, I'm listening to a book. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we have a pretty good library system here. There are a a couple of apps called Hoopla & Overdrive that they use where I am able to "check out" the digital files and download them to my phone. And not just audiobooks but ebooks and video, too. If anyone has these programs available in their area, I highly recommend them.

Thank you, Emil. I feel like this challenge was made for me!

And I like the idea of reviewing the narration, as well. It's so important! I just posted on another thread about the audiobook version of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I couldn't get through the first few chapters. It wasn't the book, it was the delivery. The narrator had this weird inflection when she was talking and I realized that she was using the tonality of an ancillary; flat, and emotionless with an oddly rising inflection of voice at the end of every sentence. Artistically, I really appreciated that level of dedication to world creating and character of the audiobook production but it was so difficult to listen to for any extended period of time. The narrator was also female so I guess that influenced my visual of the character of Breq from the get go, too, even when I stopped listening to the book and read it instead. Everyone in the Radch is referred to in the feminine regardless of gender, making the character's actual genders obscured through most of the book.

Edited by devilinlaw 2015-11-02 11:50 AM

(Delete all cookies set by this site)