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I "purchased" the audiobook MrFarstrider Send a noteboard - 03/03/2012 12:20:10 AM
So I've been wanting to buy the audiobooks for a very long time. Like 10-12 years actually. But I could never really justify spending so much money on the CD's when I already had the books and I had already read them. Amazon has an audiobook app available that provides you two credits for taking their 30 day free trial. So I signed up for it and got a free download of the eye of the world audiobook which normally costs about 45 bucks.

So I was pretty excited about it so that I could finally hear the correct pronunciation of so many of our favorite character's names.

Come to find out I was pretty disappointed. I have been pronouncing pretty much every name correctly the whole time. So I wasn't really provided with the profound WoT changing revelation I was hoping. It's exactly as they pronounce them in the glossaries. And two, they're extremely boring. I don't know why they chose that narrator but he is very boring sounding. His voice isn't particularly exciting and the eye of the world was one of the more exciting books.

So while everybody's opinions vary, I wouldn't recommend purchasing things audiobooks unless they are free. The story is much more exciting as your mind unfolds it in its own way rather than hearing somebody's rendition of it in a melodramatic flavor.
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I "purchased" the audiobook - 03/03/2012 12:20:10 AM 1525 Views
Meh, get them from audible if you're gonna get them. - 03/03/2012 12:33:01 AM 1049 Views
I like them... - 03/03/2012 01:56:41 AM 1063 Views
Re: I like them... - 03/03/2012 02:36:53 AM 983 Views
Don't count on the pronunciation to be fully accurate. - 03/03/2012 04:14:30 PM 1046 Views
Re: Don't count on the pronunciation to be fully accurate. - 03/03/2012 06:11:36 PM 1226 Views
For the record, I still prefer how they say it in the audiobooks. - 05/03/2012 02:59:53 PM 1201 Views
Hm - 06/03/2012 06:33:25 PM 948 Views
That's how I've always pronounced it. - 13/03/2012 03:30:22 PM 966 Views
Re: Don't count on the pronunciation to be fully accurate. - 03/03/2012 08:59:53 PM 1204 Views
James Marsters doing the Dresden Files audiobooks is amazing - 06/03/2012 09:08:59 PM 1016 Views
Call me cheap, but I just read them out loud - 11/03/2012 06:51:04 PM 991 Views
We use the library *NM* - 13/03/2012 10:50:49 AM 500 Views
Re: We use the library - 13/03/2012 10:51:50 AM 1573 Views

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