Tunn11
Justified & Ancient
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The narrator is vital not only to the listener but to those making the recording. I used to deal with a library suppplier who also produced unabridged audiobooks.I think the audiobook can bring something different depending on the narrator.
I loved Monstrous Regiment I think Katherine Parkinson was brilliant in that. The Truth too had Matthew Baynton who was great.
Inexperienced or poor narrators would require endless stops as they'd misread something, used the wrong voice for a character , etc. A good actor or reader could I was told just sit and read huge chunks with very little need for stops, editing, etc.
Martin Jarvis was apparently really good my source said he sat and listened to him doing one reading, nearly thirty minutes with only one stop as he'd got a voice wrong. He's narrated Good Omens and some other of Sir pTerry's work.