[Publib] importance of narrators in audio books

[Betsy Vera]

One or two more, if I may:

Neil Gaiman, reading any of his books. I'm near the end of "Neverwhere" and
I wish it didn't have to end.

I tried to listen to Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book" (445 p.), read by Jenny
Sterlin (26 1/2 hours). Sterlin has a lovely voice that was easy to listen
to, but her deliberate cadence while reading a book with slow action meant
that hardly anything had happened by the time I got to work. Very
frustrating. It would've been good for a long drive, but not for listening
to in 20-minute chunks. On the other hand, when I was reading the print
book, I did keep hearing it in her voice. So, the voice was the right, but
the circumstances (slow action, short drives) were wrong.


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Betsy Vera
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