Buffy ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Thanks, Gris, that's an excellent and useful comparison.
I do love Dale's take on Dumbledore, McGonnigal and Hagrid. His posh drawl for Malfoy is a perfectly apt choice since Rowling mentions it all the time, but it's mildly distracting for me since (a) I'm used to Movie Malfoy; and (b) my ear's not really attuned to British accents so that I automatically give that drawl its set of snobby associations.
The audio version of Skulduggery Pleasant is lousy. The reader does most of the voices completely wrong to the way they sound in my head. Not tonally as much as the attitude; like, a sentence that I always read as sarcastic was read as tentative and meek. I cannot abide audiobooks not agreeing with me.
Well, Stephen Briggs does a good job with Pratchett. I also got the audiocassette for an abridged version of L.A. Confidential as done by David Straitharn for a dollar. Good value, plus I'm driving down to LA next week.
I've listened to both Fry and Dale, and I'd say Gris nailed it. There are a few Dale voices that grate on me, but they are more distinctive.
I'd recommend The Golden Compass for a good audiobook listen it has a cast rather than a single reader, which is great.
I mostly liked Dale, but his Hermione and Luna voices just didn't work for me at all. I really liked his voices for everybody else, though, and he was great at describing action.
I have found Pratchett makes for excellent audiobook reading. I'm currently most of the way through Small Gods.
I just finished Soulless. I think some people here have enjoyed it as well.
I liked Soulless, it did take me a bit to get into it but now I can't to read the next one/.
I've also mainlined Kim Harrison's Hollows series. Really enjoying that.
Loved, loved, LOVED Soulless. And my copy of Changeless is on its way!
I ordered both yesterday.
Oh, I turned a friend on to Diana Wynne Jones books. She needed something light and absorbing. (She's feeling down.) So I discovered that a new Diana Wynne Jones book is coming out on the 10th.