• huginn@feddit.it
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    6 months ago

    Man I wish I could enjoy Wheaton’s narration style but after trying to listen to John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire and hearing every single character given the same tone deaf voice (literally tone deaf: not like saying racist things but rather had the same sarcastic and smug tone of voice for everyone irrespective of character descriptions or even explicit tones given like “she said morosely”) I refuse to buy another book he has narrated.

    Amber Benson it is then.

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      6 months ago

      On the topic of Will Wheaton narrating audiobooks, do I understand correctly that the version of The Martian narrated by R.C. Bray is no longer available to purchase on Audible and is now replaced by one done by Wheaton?

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        6 months ago

        I activately look for books narrated by R. C. Bray. I love his style. And he nailed the downeast Maine accent in Expeditionary Force.

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        6 months ago

        Wild that they’d replace an excellent voice actor with a incredibly mediocre one.

        But Wil is famous so …

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          6 months ago

          The real weird thing is the cover art provided with the R. C. Bray version published by Podium Publishing is the movie poster with Matt Damon’s face on it, the current version narrated by Wheaton uses the original book cover of space suit b/w orange.

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        6 months ago

        Definitely not. But what does that have anything to do with Wil’s awful narration?

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          6 months ago

          Their narration can be fairly bland from what I’ve heard.

          I don’t like audiobooks, so that’s second hand.