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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: EUOL on May 24, 2007, 10:26:17 PM
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I just posted a sample of a reading a man named Lance Meibos did of Elantris. Thoughts?
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/drafts/warbreaker/Elantris--lance.meibos.sample.mp3
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we should probably add a flash based player for this to the site so people don't have to download it if they don't want it and could just stream it instead.
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It streams for me when I click the link. It goes into quicktime.
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I refuse to allow quicktime to do that same with WMP, I don't like things from the web being loaded on click like that. My set up only allows for it to be downloaded when you click.
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I like the audio a lot; I'm a fan of audio books...but most likely this is because I am a fan of long car rides...
In my extreme oddness, I followed along and laughed when he switched Raoden's eye and hair color (or maybe my copy misprinted it?)
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I am sorry, but I really couldn't listen to more than the first couple of minutes. :( I don't know if it is because I am so used to the fella who does the HP books that I was expecting something else, or if it was because I felt the reader had over dramatized the first part that I heard, or something else entirely. But, I just wasn't able to give him the chance he deserved, I suppose, to win me over.
And he may be totally to someone else's liking, just not to mine. I will try again a little later, and now that the shock of it is past, maybe I will be able to give him more of a chance and listen to the whole sample and perhaps have a more informed opinion. Give me a day or so, I will come back with another thought or two.
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I find that when I listen to a new reader for the first time that they never seem quite the way I thought they would. They do, however, usually grow on me. The thing that hit me right off was his pronunciation of Elantris. Now, I'm not saying that the way I say it to myself is right its just different and that kind of throws me and will continue to until I get used it. Just my two cents.
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I, too, am a fan of audiobooks, and so I have listened to a lot of books that I have already read. Each reader has their own style, it does take me a while to get used to them. But, I also agree with dawncawley. I liked this guy's reading, but it was a bit over-dramatic with his reading. If he could tone it down a bit, I think he would be great.
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I listened to it all the way through this time. And I stand by my previous statement, with a minor change. I don't think it is his voice I dislike, but the way he reads the book. I understand that the person narrating an audiobook needs to show the emotion of the story, but I feel that while his voice seems to have grown on me, the rest of it has become more glaringly bad.
That sounds awful. Let me see if I can clarify a bit. Enthusiasm and emotion are a good thing for a narrator to have, but at the appropriate time, in appropriate measure. I think that, for my taste, Lance is a bit too enthusiastic in his portrayal of emotion. And somewhat off in what goes where. Maybe it is because I read it and see it a certain way in my own head and this is different, and more somehow, than my own imagination makes it.
As I said before, his voice seems to have grown on me and I think with a bit of polish on the style, I hope that is the right word, of his reading that it could be really good.
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I finally got a chance to listen to that, and I have to agree that he seems to emphases things I don't think I would. Still, I really like the idea of an audio book, since I love to listen to them as I work. I agree with what someone on the blog said, and making it so that there's a diffrent person for each of the main povs.
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I listened to a bit of it, and I also agree with Dawncawley. His voice is good, but something about the enthusiasm sort of turns me off to what he's saying. :-\