Part 2 of I missed pod-aware :(

[lunchy_munchy]

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Same warnings apply! Some of this stuff veers off course wildly, gets kind of weirdly heavy and personal and may actually offend you because I don't filter out my thoughts and therefore probably sound incredibly ignorant.

The rest of Lunchee's podaware ramblings!

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[kdheart]

I was supposed to write an essay tonight, but I ran into this and couldn't stop listening. You've distracted me

[lunchy_munchy]

I've only listened to a handful of audiobooks, and only two of those had female narrators. Funnily enough, they were a part of an ensemble cast and were definitely the better readers (the menfolk overacted terribly!!) I'd love to listen to more, but books narrated with female main characters aren't generally books I want to read, being rom coms and the like. It's a big part of why podfics are so appealing - women are reading stories about women and men having adventures and fighting and all sorts of fun things. I wonder what it is about the professional female readers you've listened to that is so off putting? If you figure it out, please share

[kdheart]

I don't really have any issues when it comes to ensemble casts, but those are rather rare. I think what bothered me most was when they read as if they were reading for children and the book was clearly mature in nature or when they were trying too hard on the male voices. I'm not saying there aren't terrible male narrators out there (gods, there's plenty of those), but I've been lucky enough to stay away from them. Apparently, I've only been unlucky with the girls. Also, most of the stuff I listened to was read by guys, regardless if the main character was female or not. I firmly recomend the Sherlock Holmes audiobooks (which you can get for free, by the way), the narrator is brilliant and I especially love the voice he does for Watson, anything read by Simon Prebble and any of the Discworld audiobooks

[lunchy_munchy]

I believe in you! You can defeat that damned essay!

I can see why ensemble casts are rare, and really I think they only got away with it in the ones I listened to because the books switch points of view. If you're interested at all, they were 'shiver' and 'linger' by Maggie Stiefvater. It wasn't particularly enthralling, and the plot was an annoying kind of 'nothing exists except our love for each other!' and good lord, the guy who read in 'shiver' was atrocious (and perhaps I wasn't the only one who thought so because he was replaced in the second audiobook

[regonym]

I had fun listening to all of these. :D Also, I grinned throughout your bit about Juice817 getting you into podfic, because she was one of the very first podficcers I ever listened to as well, ahaha. All her chash-podfics~~~ So good. *___*

[lunchy_munchy]

Whew, boy am I glad you found them fun to listen to! Juice817 is SO GOOD, I love everything about her podfics (even though they initially scared me off from podficcing myself!)