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Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

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.

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.

Every character sounded exactly the same, which made the back and forth stuff impossible to follow.

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