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Seveneves
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Peter Brooke
- Duración: 32 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 398
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 361
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 365
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction. What would happen if the world were ending? When a catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. But unforeseen dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is really poor
- De Laurie J. en 04-04-16
- Seveneves
- De: Neal Stephenson
- Narrado por: Peter Brooke
Classic Neil Stephenson mired by bad reading.
Revisado: 01-14-18
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Legendary actors like Daniel Day Lewis work with a voice coach and do method acting, spending weeks if not months getting into a single character that comes alive on screen for 2 hours, and will have at best 1 hour of continuous speech.
What chance does a narrator have to be faithful in reading dozens of accents from a book that has 30+ hours of voice time? None.
It detracts from the story. Every single time a character we haven't heard in 10 minutes comes back into focus, the listener is jolted with a reminder of how bad that accent rendition is.
Why do this? Why bother? Let the listener's mind fill in the accent. Cadence and intonation? By all means be expressive in the delivery of dialogue. But do not attempt to do the English accent of a Indian born tech guy... or the female voice of a Chinese American... Not unless you have the chops of Mel Blanc or Day Lewis. Where it is not outright offensive, it is distracting.
In particular, Neil Stephenson's female characters are notoriously tough. It's even explicitly said that Dinah was seen as a tom-boy. So why adopt this whiny voice...
... exasperating.
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