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TooManySorcerers t1_j22m43m wrote

I totally feel this. This is especially prevalent in the Worm audiobook, which is divided between multiple narrators who each took different sections of the story. A couple of them are fantastic, great to listen to. There is ONE in particular, and she read both the Leviathan and Echidna arcs (some of the best parts of the entire story), and jfc she was so utterly terrible that it ruined two of the series' highest points. I couldn't even get through a couple of chapters of her. I gave up and just reread the arcs physically before returning to the audiobook. And from then on I skipped entire arcs anytime I saw she was the reader.

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Thatoneguy0311 OP t1_j22nrm6 wrote

Frank Herbert’s dune has a complete narrator swap mid book, it was off putting but not so much so as to ruin the experience.

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TooManySorcerers t1_j22rnkh wrote

Interesting. I've never consumed Dune as an audiobook. Do they say why they switch?

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Thatoneguy0311 OP t1_j22ztou wrote

If there is an explanation, I never looked I to it. IIRC it’s not even from one chapter the the next, it’s almost mid paragraph.

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