That's a real shame about the audio books. I don't buy them, but I wouldn't want them to be so unsatisfying. And I don't get why they would use one male for all the voices in the series - unless that guy was Christopher Walken.
I purchased TFoH on audiobook recently to see how it was. I hated it.
While the reader does have a crisp and clear voice, I found the scenes amusing enough to almost lose concentration while I was driving. When a woman speaks he makes his voice high but harsh, and you end up getting a voice much akin to a witch who hisses all her words. When a man speaks his voice becomes ultra-deep and Rand sounds like one of the Olympians speaking through a cloud.
The scenes are also extremely slow, and there is ZERO emotion in the scene. Some of the best scenes in the book felt like cold ice to me.
Does anyone else have an audiobook? I kind of enjoyed the recent chapter we received in audio format, but this was really depressing to hear.
I purchased TFoH on audiobook recently to see how it was. I hated it.
While the reader does have a crisp and clear voice, I found the scenes amusing enough to almost lose concentration while I was driving. When a woman speaks he makes his voice high but harsh, and you end up getting a voice much akin to a witch who hisses all her words. When a man speaks his voice becomes ultra-deep and Rand sounds like one of the Olympians speaking through a cloud.
The scenes are also extremely slow, and there is ZERO emotion in the scene. Some of the best scenes in the book felt like cold ice to me.
Does anyone else have an audiobook? I kind of enjoyed the recent chapter we received in audio format, but this was really depressing to hear.
There are two readers, one male, one female (who coincidentally are married to each other). Anyway, the guy reads the male PoVs and the woman reads the female PoVs. They do all the voices for their respective sections and do not switch based on the gender of the character who is speaking.
I think the audiobooks are pretty good - I was put off by them at first, too, but I guess they grew on me.
The audiobooks are atrocious
- 22/06/2010 02:37:20 PM
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what's the recent chapter?
- 22/06/2010 02:50:31 PM
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Well, that's not quite how it is
- 22/06/2010 11:09:48 PM
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Re: The audiobooks are atrocious
- 22/06/2010 03:40:32 PM
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I like them for when I want to read but can't physically read
- 22/06/2010 03:49:58 PM
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Re: I like them for when I want to read but can't physically read
- 22/06/2010 05:45:21 PM
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Is that the same reader
- 23/06/2010 12:33:10 AM
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I've only heard the first few that had a man and a woman switching chapters.
- 24/06/2010 02:58:03 AM
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