[Publib] RE: importance of narrators in audio books

[Geneva Durkee]

The narrator is almost the most important element of an audiobook, and I base my purchasing very heavily on the quality of the narrator.  Some that I consider outstanding:

Michael Kramer - especially James Patterson's Alex Cross books and others
John Erickson reading his Hank the Cowdog books
Tony Britton (Dick Francis books)
Paul Boehmer (Owen Perry's Civil War series) and others 
Jim Dale (Harry Potter)
Kate Reading for almost anything she reads
Scott Brick for Douglas Preston's Agent Pendergast books
Alan Sklar almost always great.
Carrington MacDuffie

Lloyd James in The Big Fifty won rave reviews from a relative who hardly ever listens.

It's a delight to discover new narrators who make a book come alive - not like you're being read to, but like you're listening to real conversations. Adam Grupper in Wambaugh's Hollywood Station comes to mind.

I do know that tastes vary widely. I loved Inkheart with Barbara Rosenblatt, but another listener disliked her voice and didn't finish it.

Geneva 
Navajo County Library District
Holbrook, AZ 
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