• Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. Hyperion has full cast, the rest doesn’t, but still very high quality narration.

    Honourable mentions:

    • Alastair Reynolds and John Lee collaborations. Lee has the perfect voice and tone for Reynolds’ precise (and somewhat aloof) language.
    • Neil Gaiman books. Gaiman does his own narration, and I can’t imagine his books without his voice.

    Dishonourable mention:

    • John Scalzi, read by Will Wright. Wright reads as if every line in Scalzi’s works was hillarious. Scalzi is a very funny writer, but his books have somber set pieces, and Wright ruins the immersion there.
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      4 months ago

      Anything read by Wil Wheaton tbh, I just don’t like him as a narrator. (I’m pretty sure you meant Wil Wheaton lol)

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        Sorry; you are right. I never saw that reader with any other authors, so it’s not something that’s really stuck in my memory.