tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post7042349053143917871..comments2023-08-03T03:06:27.575+12:00Comments on Courtney Schafer: Adventures in AudioCourtney Schaferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00593975028655479293noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-47922490136033607902012-10-02T17:15:56.650+13:002012-10-02T17:15:56.650+13:00The narrotor for all the Vorkosigian books is exce...The narrotor for all the Vorkosigian books is excellent.<br /><br />I'm working on a review of Whitefire for Audible. "... The narrator's precise diction makes every one of Shafer's description flow like honey and shine like alpenglow..."Curtis Craddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10590557291147855695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-24742960267616699882012-10-02T05:19:07.396+13:002012-10-02T05:19:07.396+13:00Would've been tough for me too except that I h...Would've been tough for me too except that I had a few longer drives come up soon after the book was released - that helped! I'm told there's an app that'll speed up the narration without affecting pitch/tone - might try that for Tainted City, to fit in longer bits during my 10-minute commute. Courtney Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593975028655479293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-63771757473860905322012-10-02T05:15:07.136+13:002012-10-02T05:15:07.136+13:00Good point on the lottery numbers. Though that ne...Good point on the lottery numbers. Though that never works out well in SFF stories...Courtney Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593975028655479293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-39456687714723375362012-10-02T05:14:01.471+13:002012-10-02T05:14:01.471+13:00It's definitely useful to read aloud! I try to...It's definitely useful to read aloud! I try to do that as part of my last revision pass...assuming I have the time (ha, ha). Really helpful for catching typos, repeated words, and clunky sentences.<br /><br />And how was A Civil Campaign? I'd think that one could lend itself well to audio format if the narrator was good. Courtney Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593975028655479293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-20339347997567046922012-09-30T21:00:05.543+13:002012-09-30T21:00:05.543+13:00heh, interesting. I'll listen to my audiobooks...heh, interesting. I'll listen to my audiobooks next time I have 25 hours to spare - possible before I die. Make that 50 hours if I want to compare and contrast UK vs US versions... I did listen to chapter 1 book 1 - too weird.Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-88752499442450901752012-09-26T19:04:21.862+12:002012-09-26T19:04:21.862+12:00I wish I could go back in time and tell my stresse...<i>I wish I could go back in time and tell my stressed little author self of a few months ago that it was All Going To Be Okay.</i><br /><br />But that would take all the fun out of it, wouldn't it? Today would come and you'd be like, "Oh, she was right." And then you'd think, "Why didn't she tell me some lottery numbers instead?"<br /><br />Glad you like the audio!Steve MChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026970188928733645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-47644145569757176862012-09-26T14:48:59.944+12:002012-09-26T14:48:59.944+12:00The Whitefire Crossing is next up in my queue. I ...The Whitefire Crossing is next up in my queue. I just finished A Civil Campaign.<br /><br />In my classes I sometimes require students to read aloud, just to slow them down and make them read all the words. It's a useful and occasionally amusing technique as the student reads a passage twice for entirely different results. Curtis Craddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10590557291147855695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-43246456916941567472012-09-26T07:02:43.698+12:002012-09-26T07:02:43.698+12:00Oh yeah, forgot to talk about that! Dev's sect...Oh yeah, forgot to talk about that! Dev's sections are very much in his voice - which is really cool and fits perfectly with the book, but it does mean that in some conversations it can be hard to tell which things he's saying out loud vs. just thinking in his head - e.g. the conversations where he talks about his past to Kiran (and later, Cara). In print it's obviously easy to see the (sometimes stark!) difference between what he's revealing aloud to Kiran/Cara vs. only to the reader - in audio, a bit trickier to tell. <br /><br />For Kiran's 3rd-person sections, Andy uses a much more neutral voice for the narration, which is a nice contrast to the Dev sections and conveys that same sense of distance that the POV shift provides in print. Of course that also makes it much easier to tell Kiran's speech vs. his thoughts apart. Courtney Schaferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593975028655479293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650130703584309038.post-74911777962223864312012-09-26T05:32:11.978+12:002012-09-26T05:32:11.978+12:00Yes, yes you do.
How does the listening experienc...Yes, yes you do.<br /><br />How does the listening experience differ in the performance between the first person (Dev) and third person (Kiran) sections?Paul Weimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02444942522624902562noreply@blogger.com