Audio book quibbles

I'm listening to Eddings' book Pawn of Prophecy at work today, and as much as I like the story, I'm finding the audio version very irritating. The reader is using different accents for the various nationalities, which is fine, but he's not using them consistently. For example, the Sendars will at some times be given a vaguely German accent, at other times a kind of Irish one, and at still other times a sort of generic rural English accent. He's doing similar things to the other nationalities. It's distracting and annoying.

The reader is also doing the same thing to Garion that a lot of voice actors do to children's voices. In trying to make himself sound young he ends up sounding whiny, even in scenes when the character shouldn't sound that way.

Audio book quibbles

I'm listening to Eddings' book Pawn of Prophecy at work today, and as much as I like the story, I'm finding the audio version very irritating. The reader is using different accents for the various nationalities, which is fine, but he's not using them consistently. For example, the Sendars will at some times be given a vaguely German accent, at other times a kind of Irish one, and at still other times a sort of generic rural English accent. He's doing similar things to the other nationalities. It's distracting and annoying.

The reader is also doing the same thing to Garion that a lot of voice actors do to children's voices. In trying to make himself sound young he ends up sounding whiny, even in scenes when the character shouldn't sound that way.

Gramma

I just got a voicemail from my mother that Gramma Robinson fell and broke her hip the other day. Apparently she had surgery today, and is doing OK. I'm going to wait until I get out of work to call Mom back.

Gramma

I just got a voicemail from my mother that Gramma Robinson fell and broke her hip the other day. Apparently she had surgery today, and is doing OK. I'm going to wait until I get out of work to call Mom back.