Narration is all
Mar. 14th, 2016 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearA while ago, I re-read my favourite comic book series - Lucifer, by Mike Carey, and it was just as awesome as I remembered.
I recalled that he also writes novels, and that I had enjoyed reading his Felix Castor series in the past.
So, I decided to revisit them in audio format, and duly downloaded the first in the series - The Devil You Know.
I nearly didn't manage to listen to it all the way through - because the narrator's accent was *awful*.
Wikipedia says:
"Michael Kramer is an award winning American audiobook narrator of over 100 titles."
The key here is that he is American - and Castor is very much British. The book is set in London, and nearly all of the other characters are also British. Unfortunately, Mr Kramer had evidently been told that, to sound British, one must make use of only long vowel sounds.
So, in the audiobook, things were made of "plar-stick", people got into the "par-ssenger seat" of a car, and at one point I think Castor (or should I say "Car-store") was "slar-shed" with a knife.
It made me wince every time, and threw me right out of the story, which is a shame, because the story was actually quite good.
I won't be continuing to listen to that series, or any others narrated by Mr Kramer - though I suspect any American books he narrates would be fine.
I recalled that he also writes novels, and that I had enjoyed reading his Felix Castor series in the past.
So, I decided to revisit them in audio format, and duly downloaded the first in the series - The Devil You Know.
I nearly didn't manage to listen to it all the way through - because the narrator's accent was *awful*.
Wikipedia says:
"Michael Kramer is an award winning American audiobook narrator of over 100 titles."
The key here is that he is American - and Castor is very much British. The book is set in London, and nearly all of the other characters are also British. Unfortunately, Mr Kramer had evidently been told that, to sound British, one must make use of only long vowel sounds.
So, in the audiobook, things were made of "plar-stick", people got into the "par-ssenger seat" of a car, and at one point I think Castor (or should I say "Car-store") was "slar-shed" with a knife.
It made me wince every time, and threw me right out of the story, which is a shame, because the story was actually quite good.
I won't be continuing to listen to that series, or any others narrated by Mr Kramer - though I suspect any American books he narrates would be fine.
