![]() The female narrator of PLAGUE OF SHADOWS is ok though. I can't wait to hear Pirate's Prophesy either, it's the upcoming PFT novel I'm most looking forward to. Bray's narration really made me enjoy it more than I thought I would (even to the point where I'm considering going to see the movie). It's not a book I normally would have picked up (I only did so because of the hype surrounding it), but R.C. I also really enjoyed the narration of The Martian. Can't imagine Torius Vin with a British accent.we'll see. That said, I really am looking forward to the audio of Pirate's Prophesy. Hard to find a good one, maybe, but they are out there. I had an audio trilogy done by a good actor, Jeff Breslauer, who did all the voices beautifully. The guy does about a dozen accents, and really good voices. Listen to the R.C.Bray audio of "The Martian". I would imagine that it is difficult to find a person who can rapidly switch between drastically different cultural accents. Itchy wrote: However, all the accents and voices in the Harry Potter audiobooks (which ARE excellent) are all UK accents. That said, please stay tuned, as there's an announcement I'm really excited about coming next month that will have some bearing on this particular issue. Suggestions of specific readers aren't useful-there are all sorts of financial/availability/contractual concerns that keep us from picking and choosing-but if the majority of folks have a problem with the reader, we can absolutely pass that information on to Macmillan Audio (the people producing the Tor-era audiobooks). Regarding specific narrators: I'd love to hear more and detailed feedback about Steve West (the reader for Lord of Runes and Liar's Island). So my default guideline for narrators is "If you can do the accents right-great! But if not, just read it like you're reading a story." While it can be a little weird to have all the characters have the same general accent, someone doing *bad* accents is even worse, and in the worst cases can be downright offensive. That said, as folks have pointed out, it's hard to find a narrator who can do all the different accents one might want, especially if (as in the case with the newer Pathfinder Tales novels) the production folks want to use the same narrator on every book. I love being able to listen to the Pathfinder Tales books, but I sincerely hope Tor finds someone with a broader range of talent for future audio releases.įor the record: I'm the person advising Macmillan Audio on the cultural analogues, and they definitely have the information about who's supposed to sound like what. Either the accents are wildly out of place, or they're just plain bland. The homogeneity of the voices makes it difficult to enjoy the story. What I can't forgive is that literally everyone in Steve West's version of Golarion has an accent from somewhere in the UK. Honestly, I could forgive Audible for not realizing that a Vudrani accent should sound a lot like an Indian accent. I assume it is difficult for Paizo to influence the production choices Audible makes in producing recordings from books published by Tor. I don't know who is advising Tor about cultural analogues. There are just too many different cultures interacting on Golarion to have someone with his extremely limited set of accents doing the narration. The locations in that book were fairly close together and West managed to include a little bit of variation in voices, but frankly, his repertoire of accents is far too limited for him to properly portray the characters in the Pathfinder campaign setting. ![]() West did a passable job narrating Lord of Runes. I'm specifically posting because I'd like Tor to get rid of Steve West as their Pathfinder audiobook narrator. I did post a review on Amazon, but I tried to make it clear that my problems were not with the story or writing. I don't want my opinion on the audiobook version to unfairly influence the book, itself. And I'm specficialy NOT posting this as a review or in the comments for Mr. I haven't finished listening to it, so I can't really pass judgement on Mr. I've listened to Lord of Runes in its entirety, and I recently started listening to Liar's Island.
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