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Posted 2015-11-04 2:06 PM (#11711 - in reply to #11677)
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devilinlaw - 2015-11-03 7:42 AM

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.


Ancillary Justice was one of the first books I listened to in the tractor! Can't recall the tonality of the narrator now, but I do remember struggling getting into it and ultimately settled for the print copy, which was a gift from my mother. I guess the narration could have been to blame. I did listen to Ancillary Sword in ts totality, though, and found that one a lot more accessible. Over the next couple of weeks, as we are heading into maize planting season in Namibia, I'll be listening to Ancillary Mercy as well.

You can tell your partner that I too had a strong aversion toward audiobooks. That changed when I found out the John Deere had a stereo system

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