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HFQ up on Amazon

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Re: HFQ up on Amazon
Post by thanatos   » Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:30 pm

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SHV wrote:"Never used any of the Audio books. Out of curiosity what's the playtime on LAMA, say?"
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LAMA playtime is 27 hours, 31 min. I have listened to the series multiple times, the three read by Oliver Wyman are the best followed by two by Jason Culp, one by Charles Keating and the worst, by far is MTaT by Kevin T. Collins.

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I'll grant you Oliver Wyman and Jason Culp being the best performances of the series. Not so sure about Kevin T. Collins being the worst though. Charles Keating's performance, while precise in the names was listless and uninspiring with a voice that was not fun to listen to. Kevin T. Collins had the right voice but mispronounced many of the names (like Charis). Pronunciation in such books depends upon the voice actor getting the proper pronunciation from the author and I seem to recall RFC saying that his letter on the matter was lost or didn't reach Collins in time. So I can't really blame him.
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Re: HFQ up on Amazon
Post by SHV   » Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:47 pm

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" while precise in the names was listless and uninspiring with a voice that was not fun to listen to. Kevin T. Collins had the right voice but mispronounced many of the names (like Charis). "
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IMO, it's pick your poison; a droning, uninspired, British accent vs constant, breathless excitement and "mispronounced" words. Just pleased the Oliver Wyman is doing #8.

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Re: HFQ up on Amazon
Post by ORiN   » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:10 pm

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Looks like the pricing info for eBook versions are not up yet. No info on B&N on ebook as well.
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