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The WOT audiobooks are great... Ashaman Narishma Send a noteboard - 23/06/2010 06:48:09 PM

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.


The narrators of the WOT series are great and I have enjoyed all of the books. They are much better than many other audiobooks I have listened to... For truly horrendous try listening to the Sword of Truth series... I couldnt get past book 2, they have different narrators in each one so it makes it all the worse...
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The audiobooks are atrocious - 22/06/2010 02:37:20 PM 1156 Views
what's the recent chapter? - 22/06/2010 02:50:31 PM 729 Views
Well, that's fairly typical for audiobooks. - 22/06/2010 03:47:23 PM 856 Views
Well, that's not quite how it is - 22/06/2010 11:09:48 PM 753 Views
Re: The audiobooks are atrocious - 22/06/2010 03:16:58 PM 765 Views
Aren't they all? I know the CDs are read by them, too *NM* - 22/06/2010 11:06:19 PM 320 Views
Re: The audiobooks are atrocious - 22/06/2010 03:40:32 PM 836 Views
I like them for when I want to read but can't physically read - 22/06/2010 03:49:58 PM 729 Views
Re: I like them for when I want to read but can't physically read - 22/06/2010 05:45:21 PM 698 Views
Agreed *NM* - 22/06/2010 05:54:09 PM 560 Views
That's when I use them as well. - 23/06/2010 04:51:09 AM 657 Views
Re: The audiobooks are atrocious - 24/06/2010 05:35:40 AM 649 Views
I'm quite the fan - 22/06/2010 04:29:08 PM 737 Views
Re: I'm quite the fan - 22/06/2010 05:24:59 PM 631 Views
Is that the same reader - 23/06/2010 12:33:10 AM 723 Views
Jeez that's frigtening - 23/06/2010 07:09:28 PM 895 Views
It would be, but they pronounce it correctly - 'swan' *NM* - 23/06/2010 10:01:22 PM 658 Views
i dont have the patience for audio books to begin with. *NM* - 23/06/2010 06:42:14 PM 317 Views
The WOT audiobooks are great... - 23/06/2010 06:48:09 PM 669 Views
I've only heard the first few that had a man and a woman switching chapters. - 24/06/2010 02:58:03 AM 624 Views

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