WoT audiobooks

[Umpa]

Hello guys and gals,

I was just curious about the readers of the audiobooks(kramer and reading). Does anyone if they were designated certain parts of the book and others not? I have listened to a few audiobooks and this seems to be the first time where two readers seemingly swap out duties from chapter to chapter. The first example of multiple readers of an Abook that comes to mind is "Hearts in Atlantis" by stephen King( the readers being stephen king and william hurt), but there they just split the book in two parts, Hurt reading one and King the other.

 

anyways, was just bored and curious,

 

Thx

[b3arz3rg3r]

One reads the male voices and the other the female. It's not that complex.

[Thorum]

Not really.

 

The first half of the first book is almost all Rand (with a bit of Perrin and Nynaeve). Chapters were quite evenly divided between the voices, though.

 

The task of reading this book is simply too great for 1 single human to encompass.

[rand4747]

it also stops the listener going tone deaf and not hearing it any more :P Or put into a trance :P Even really good readers it gets boring hearing it for extended periods of time.

[Umpa]

One reads the male voices and the other the female. It's not that complex.

 

 

or maybe you could at least have listened to the audiobooks before commenting. if you had listened to any of them you would figure out pretty quickly that sex doesn't matter. either you are a troll or just really bad with sarcasm

[b3arz3rg3r]

One reads the male voices and the other the female. It's not that complex.

 

 

or maybe you could at least have listened to the audiobooks before commenting. if you had listened to any of them you would figure out pretty quickly that sex doesn't matter. either you are a troll or just really bad with sarcasm

 

Huh? I do have the audiobooks and it is exactly as I said. If the voice narrating is a female one it is read by Kate Reading and if it is a male one it is read by Kramer.

[yoniy0]

I concur, though I only listened to TGS and ToM. Kramer does the male PoV's and Reading the female ones. If there are exceptions to the rule, they are very few (and aren't the main characters).

 

Also, kindly refrain from throwing insults at your peers on the first sign of disagreement.

[Angelhydes]

I have every last book in unabridged audio on my Ipod...I have a playlist tittle Wheel of Time and it's on Repeat...Basiclly once I get to the end I got back and listen to the hole thing agian...with breaks inbetween now and then...anyway yoniy0 is right Reading reads the Female PoV's and Kramer the Female...there was an exception once I think when Reading read a small bit that was a male charecter's PoV it was a minor Character and it was the only time I noticed it and it was a very small bit that took less then I min to read that might have been the reason...they had just gotten done with a Female PoV read and they were going back into a one so I assume that the director just felt that a change of voices wasn't needed, I don't know. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Krammer and Reading were hand picked by Jordan to read these. I assume the PoV changes were his choice.

[Clouded]

I also concur. I have all the audiobooks, and Kramer reads when it is a male point of view, and Reading reads when it is a female point of view. I cannot speak about EotW, because I haven't listened to that one in a while. This is true for TGH on, though

 

There has only been a few things that I've been bothered about with the audiobooks. First, is the case when the two Readers read a word differently. For example, I remember "Egeanin" is read in differing ways by Reading and Kramer. Also, they sometimes use different accents. Kramer gives Gawyn an English accent, while Reading does not.

[yoniy0]

Kramer is right. Andorans sound like Brits, and the TR Irish.

 

Regardless, I do have some reservations about the audiobooks. My vision of the books is just slightly different than Kramer's and Reading's, and their perception gets in my way (I'm like "that's not how Egwene sounds, no way"). Listening to a book limits the imagination, I think. However, no way in hell am I waiting 3 months for the ebook, so audiobook it is (instant delivery is king, if you live outside the US/Commonwealth countries).

[Andrew Coleman]

In tEotW Readings first appearence is after the group gets split at SL and Nyn has her first pov

[yoniy0]

Is that the first female PoV?

[Andrew Coleman]

I believe so I will listen to it now to dbl check

[yoniy0]

I believe so I will listen to it now to dbl check

Never mind, I checked. It definitely is, and only the third PoV overall (disregarding the omniscient PoV of the prologue), unless you count Ravens (an Egwene PoV). TEotW didn't have many PoVs at all (Rand, Perrin, Nynaeve and a very short Moiraine PoV at the end).