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It's so true! It's such a tragedy when a really good book is ruined by bad narration. All of the Hitchhikers Guide books (except for the first one, which is mas
by Dig1t 4y ago
It's so true! It's such a tragedy when a really good book is ruined by bad narration. All of the Hitchhikers Guide books (except for the first one, which is masterfully read by Stephen Fry), are a good example, but there are tons of other examples. There's usually only one version as well so you can't even shop around for a version with a better narrator either.
- rahoulb 4y agoIf you can find it, look for the BBC Radio version of Hitchhikers, from the late 70s, early 80s. Each version has a slightly different variation on the story and the radio one is my favourite of the lot. My friend had a copy of the scripts from the radio series and we used to use it as inspiration - "open the scripts at a random page and our band name will be the first thing that Marvin says ... Zootlewurdle - perfect!" I've got them on a set of CDs somewhere, but have nothing that will play them...
- dirtyid 4y agoI've learned to enjoy particularly robotic TTS narrations because after a while it becomes associated with my internal voice, and it feels like I'm "reading" the book versus elaborately produced audiobooks that are experiencially closer to enjoying a show. And feel less hesitation about listening at 3x speed. With practice, I can start layering on personality to different characters with neutral TTS voices.