[Publib] importance of narrators in audio books

[Jennifer E Jones]

The narrator can truly make a book.  When I had a long commute, I lived with my audiobooks and enjoyed a lot of them.  The funniest story I have on narrators, though, is when I listend to The Bachelor by Carly Phillips.  The narrator, William Dufris, was good but I was bothered by something.  I went to the Internet and found that he did the voice for Bob the Builder, one of my son's favorities at the time.  Having "Bob" read the steamy scenes of this book was rather funny but at least once I placed the voice I was able to overcome and enjoy the book and his talents.  It shows that those who do a lot of voice work can show up just about anywhere and previous work can influence enjoyment.
 
Jennifer E. Jones
jonesjennifere at yahoo.com



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From: Mary K Chelton <mchelton at optonline.net>
To: audiobooks at list.audiodiversions.com; publib at webjunction.org; yalsa-l at ala.org; alsc-l at ala.org; glisann at qc.edu
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 12:24:34 PM
Subject: [Publib] importance of narrators in audio books

I am still collecting opinions, anecdotes, etc. for either background or use in my PLA preconference presentation on "Audio Book Narrators as an Independent Appeal Factor." The idea is that, over and above genre, pace, characterization, mood, etc., the narrator can make or break somebody's desire to read/listen to a book all by him/herself. An example is my love for Michael Connelly's books where any desire to listen to them was killed when I discovered the rights had been sold to somebody using a narrator other than Dick Hill. In that instance, I returned to text; in others, I've given up.


Thanks in advance,


Mary K.



Mary K Chelton
Professor
GSLIS/Queens College
CUNY
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