Tuesday, April 28, 2009

books on CD

I don't listen to books on CD that often. In fact I could probably count the number of times I have with just one hand. But after listening to nine discs of one book this past weekend driving to and from Fort Worth I discovered something that really gets my panties in a twist. Why don't books on CD have multiple readers? Why isn't there a narrator reader and then different readers for each prominent character? How does a woman reader's voice sound anything like a male character's voice? It was rather weird and unlikable listening to my chick-lit book on CD when the female narrator switched back and forth between the main woman's voice and her many different male love interests' voices. I squirmed in my driver seat every time flirty banter arose in the chapters because I was reminded yet again how unlike a man the male character sounded like and how similar "he" sounded like the main woman. I was annoyed that I couldn't completely fall into the story and characters of the book I was listening to because I was so distracted and mad about the voices of the readers. I understand that costs are probably kept low by hiring just one person to read the entire book as compared to casting several people to provide voices for the main characters, but still... Where's the book on CD that transports me to another time and place because I can genuinely believe the voices speaking through my car stereo?

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