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[quote=Anonymous]DCUM has had multiple discussions of good audiobooks but I am also curious about which audiobooks DCUM thinks we should avoid, not because of the book itself but because of the narration. I think that a bad narrator can kill the experience of what might be an otherwise good book. I will start with two recent books I had to stop because I couldn't deal with the narration. I ended up checking out the paper versions from the library and enjoyed the books once I wasn't listening to the terrible narration.

[i]Sourdough[/i] by Robin Sloan. The narrator was breathy and ditzy-sounding, which the main character was not. But I could have dealt with that. What really killed it for me was the fact that the narrator pronounced many of the SF Bay locations completely incorrectly. I really wonder how something that sloppy got through. "AlamAYdah" for Alameda ruined the experience for me every time she said it. I had to stop the audiobook. "No" Valley?!? Argh.

[i]Where'd You Go, Bernadette[/i] by Maria Semple. In this case there wasn't anything problematic about the narration itself, but listening to an epistolary format novel in audiobook form was painful. The narrated "To:" and "From:" for the emails grew so tiresome. I thought the book itself was a lot of fun, but the audiobook took the fun out.

What are yours? What should we avoid because of the narration? [/quote]

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