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Applewhite posted:How the gently caress did Redshirts win a Hugo??? Audible sez: “Discover Redshirts as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Wil Wheaton!” That’s a good question about the Hugo, the whole premise is what if those guys who die a lot had a book about them. And eventually we cross into the real world and actors in Los Angeles are shallow. A Memory Called Empire won the Hugo last year so they can still pick good stuff.
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Applewhite posted:I got the audible version so my wife could listen to it and Wil Wheaton's narration makes me want to tear my ears off. Also, when read aloud the fact that the only dialogue tag in the entire book is "X said" really stands out. He tags EVERY line of dialogue with either "X said" or "X asked" and never mixes it up or pairs the dialogue with an action. This, coupled with the long back and forth conversations really drives home how much this book did not deserve to win a Hugo or any kind of award. For sure. I listened to him narrate ready player one and I think the person transcribing the book has to put all those extra “x said” crutches because he can’t do voices and was only hired for nerd name recognition. Deptfordx posted:Oh god yes, he can't do character voices, or chose not to for some inexplicable reason. Something which up to that point I'd considered a basic requiement for a fiction narrator. Yup exactly. IShallRiseAgain posted:I'm not sure why people like John Scalzi's books. I read Locked In and it read like a episode of a procedural cop show. Also, I think its really dumb that you were supposed to sympathize with people that were completely paralyzed that didn't want to use a cure for their disease, and instead expected taxpayers to keep on paying for nurses to take care of them daily. Same reason we have young Sheldon, low brow comfort crap sells.
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reignonyourparade posted:Tangentially, I find it incredible how much better Will Farrell is as the straight man than he is as the funny man and how he is hardly ever used in that role. Like Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me.
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