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Serp. 30+. UK. aroace. she/her. Currently blogging about Joe Abercrombie/The First Law series, the Aubreyad, Succession, Lockwood & Co., Critical Role, Heartstopper/Osemanverse, Queer Lit, Greek Mythology, Poetry, DnD, Arcane, Good Omens, Jane Austen, Hornblower, Our Flag Means Death, Hazbin Hotel, Young Royals, Bridgerton, Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, Dresden Files, Derry Girls, Star Trek, BBC Ghosts, Discworld, and Frozen.
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ac12bookworminthetardis

The worst audiobook I've ever listened to included a combination of these things. It was a librivox version of The Phantom of the Opera (read in November 2020).

There were so many different narrators and not all of them were great. I had to listen at 2x speed to make it more bearable. Some were monotonous, some were too far away from the microphone when they're reading and it would have been so much better if the whole book had just one narrator. Chapter 22 was the absolute worst and it is rather ironic that that chapter is called "In the Torture Chamber" because it had awful audio quality and was torture on my ears! I rated this book on the story only (4 stars). It is unfair for me to deduct stars for a poor bunch of narrators. I'm sure there are others out there who can do this classic story justice.

#reblogging this version as well bc LOL#😂 that sounds amazing(ly bad)
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I voted for "does annoying voices for certain characters" because I have too much beef with the Discworld audiobooks. Though the real answer is that the Farseer trilogy is the worst for the way the American narrator puts on a bad British accent the whole way through. Unlistenable.

#audiobooks#tbf annoying voices is why i can't do sanderson#ppl seem to really rate michael kramer & kate reading but maaaan... 💀 i just can't do it#everyone go listen to stephen pacey the actual GOAT narrator#or james marsters#or kobna holdbrook-smith#or indeed moira quirk my beloved#audra mcdonald's iliad fucking ENDED me she is SO good (i figure being a singer probably helps voice acting?)#david tennant could narrate the phone book and i would listen enraptured
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it-hurts-because-it-mattered

NEW noise canceling headphones that are so good at blocking out sound that they even prevent you from listening to your own music, forcing you to bask in the whispers of the forgotten gods until you begin to hear your own brain falling apart as it descends into madness

and now, the weather

#wtnv
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frodo-of-the-nine-fingers

nothing canon era fic writers could come up with will ever be as cruel as modern au fic writers putting these guys in the most basic modern scenarios. like he was born to live & die by the blade, his story was over before it began. and you made him take the bus and work a 9 to 5 job

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Rewatching episode 1 of Merlin and my god it sets so much stuff up so fast. I am only 10 mins in and we've already established that Merlin had to travel to a new town bc his mother felt he was unsafe, Uther's stance on magic, Morgana's unhappiness, Merlin saving Gaius's life and explaining that he was Born This Way, the monster of the week plot of the episode with Gwen from Torchwood, and the dragon. He hasn't even met Arthur yet!

#merlin#and it does it in an interesting way with minimal exposition aside from john hurt very briefly laying out how this is essentially a prequel
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