Why is one book in the middle of series narrated by someone else? The Zoey Ashe series did the same thing. Mildly frustrating.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    Voice actors are busy sometimes, it happens.

    I’m still mad about what Amazon did to Ray Porter on Bobiverse 5. Ray said he was super busy and might not be available, they pressured him to finish the reading on schedule anyways. Then somebody at Amazon decided the release date is going to be September 5th. So there was no reason to put Ray on a deadline and could have just let him figure out his own schedule.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    7 months ago

    Actors have lives too. It’s likely they booked a better gig or were unavailable for other commitments, or the company didn’t want to put up a fair pay to bring them back.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        7 months ago

        yeah I’m saying it’s likely he had another gig or the pay wasn’t right, they cheaped out then realized their mistake.

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          7 months ago

          I doubt it’s money. Nick podelh is a well known and likely well paid voice actor. My guess is scheduling conflicts.

          • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            I was tempted to deep dive and find exactly the timeline but then I realized I should actually not do that as that would be a pointless exercise.

        • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I would rather the audiobook wait to release by a few weeks/months if it means keeping the same actor.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    Aaargh! Audible did this to the Stephen King Dark Tower series. Don’t get me wrong - Frank Muller did OK in the books he read, but George Guidall (books 1, 5, 6 & 7) has an almost Johnny Cash quality to his voice, that just made his reading really fantastic to listen to.

  • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Tangentially, John Dies at the End is fucking great, easily one of my top book series. Kinda prefer the original online version of the sequel, but that’s hard to find these days, and the print version is still good. The movie’s pretty good, although it’s a shame they cut so much. I get why, movies can only be so long, but would have been cool to see all the stories from the book get told.

    • fathog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      There’s another version of Spiders? I was a fanatic for the first book in high school, I had no idea

      • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, the core plot idea was pretty much the same, but the way it played out was pretty different. The whole thing stays way more low key, and I wanna say the whole jail thing never happened. It’s been a long time since I read either version, so I’m fuzzy on the details, but it definitely got a significant rework for publication.

        I’ve tried to find a copy of the original before, and I think I found a poorly cloned website with the original links a few years ago, not updated to point at the new clone so I had to tweak it every time to continue. I’d love to get it converted to an ebook so I could archive it, but I haven’t tried in years now.