Graphic Audios

Have you encountered these versions yet? They are dramatized versions with a whole cast, sound effects and musical backgrounds.

I find them truly annoying. I just want one good narrator reading.

Fourth Wing is what I’m sampling now. I think I’ll pass.

I’ve listened to Two plays for voices by Neil Gaiman, which was originally written for and intended as a radio drama (in the series Sci-Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre), so I think that’s sort of a different beast. I’ve also listened to one or two audio books with several narrators (most recently Lincoln in the Bardo), so they seemed more like a radio show, but they didn’t have sound effects like a full-blown radio production. I’d be willing to give others a chance, but I’d want to know upfront that they were more dramatizations than readings. And many books I read wouldn’t lend themselves to dramatizations.

I’ve got hard copy of Terminal Alliance, but I wanted to revisit it in audio. I can find it available as a graphic audio that takes 7 hours. The straight narration version takes 12 hours, but none of my libraries currently have it in their catalog. I have to assume the graphic audio is an adaptation. It’s a tolerable listen only because I know the characters and story line.

That series sounds super fun! Have you read them all?

>4 Charon07: Yes! They are so much fun!