John Goin

Overlapping Dialogue

Revisado: 03-20-25

This review is for the Audible version of this product. I have listened to this audio drama a few years back and I found it to be an entertaining listen. But there seems to be a problem with it, however. About three minutes into Chapter 1, there is about 25 seconds of the same dialogue overlapping each other. Audible really needs to look into this and fix this issue.

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Narration Problem with Audible Version

Revisado: 11-10-24

First of all, I love the story which is loosely based on the Louis L’Amour novel of the same name which follows Mike Santos (whose surname is Bastian in the novel) being adopted by an outlaw named Ben Curry after a trigger-happy gang member killed Mike's father following a bank robbery and then raising him up to be his successor. I found it to be cinematically immersive and entertaining, like being read a movie script coming to life.

Just to clarify, this review is specifically for the Audible version, NOT the original audio CD. While I have the CD version, I had gotten the digital version a few years back so I could use it whenever I go somewhere (i.e., into town) and use the CD at home. This is so I don't have to take the time to swap discs and potentially get them scratched whenever I drop them by accident. But then I got rid of the Audible version because there is a problem I have with it that apparently is still there.

That problem concerns where the narrator makes the following introduction: "Random House Audio Publishing and louislamour.com present Louis L'Amour's Son of a Wanted Man". Audible for whatever reason has it somewhere completely different compared to how it’s played on the CD version.

In the Audible version, this narration is made BEFORE the prologue which takes place on a dock with two men reading a newspaper reporting the discovery of gold in California (causing the dialogue and music to be disconnected from the rest of the dramatization) while the CD version correctly has the narration AFTER the prologue.

I don’t know why Audible did this. They certainly haven’t done this with the 2015 audio dramatization of Louis L’Amour’s The Diamond of Jeru which I own both the CD and Audible versions of. They really need to fix this problem or else I’m not getting the Audible version again. I have brought this up in an Amazon review once before in 2020 and they clearly haven’t done anything about it since. Guess Audible is either being too lazy or they don’t care. Now I know that such a minor detail may not seem like a big deal for some people and some of them might ask “What’s it matter?” and “Who cares?” Well, I care and I believe that it does matter because this is NOT how it’s played on the original CD version, and I would prefer the Audible version to play just the way it does on the CD.

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