The Thief audiobook
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queensthiefHi all!
I recently found out (thank to you all) that a Thief audiobook actually existed, so I quickly hunted it down at my library and listened to the first CD today. You guys, I have thoughts. I was literally squirming in my car, I so wanted to talk to someone about my thoughts.
1) I'm kind of annoyed at the choice of narrator. I listened to the first chapter of Stephen King's IT once, and it was narrated by the same guy. He's too old to be Eugenides! And he speaks so slowly, and he doesn't say things like they're supposed to be said (like when he says he said something softly but actually speaks it in a normal tone). I want my magus to sound like Liam Neeson, not like every single other character, and I don't like how everyone slips into Jersey accents every now and then. Please tell me this guy gets better!
2) Is Pol's name really pronounced like Paul? How... common. I thought it was pronounced "pohl" not "pahl."
3) On the other hand, having an old guy narrate teen Eugenides gives the book a whole new twist. It's like this is really King Eugenides of Attolis and he's telling his story to his own kids or something. The retrospective tone lengthens from being something he's looking back at only, say, a month later to something he's remembering years later.
4) Isn't it funny how the cells in the prison used to be merchant stalls? Gen complains the entire time how the magus treats him like a tool... one that he picked up in the market, perhaps?
5) I just passed the point in the book where Gen shouts at Philonikes. Did we ever find out if word got back to Eddis and MoW? I'd love to learn what it was like for them, from finding out Gen was gone, to hearing of his arrest, to hearing of his escape, only to have him return triumphant yet half-dead.
6) Last question/thought, one prompted by #1. If you had to cast voice actors for each character in The Thief, who would you cast?
I recently found out (thank to you all) that a Thief audiobook actually existed, so I quickly hunted it down at my library and listened to the first CD today. You guys, I have thoughts. I was literally squirming in my car, I so wanted to talk to someone about my thoughts.
1) I'm kind of annoyed at the choice of narrator. I listened to the first chapter of Stephen King's IT once, and it was narrated by the same guy. He's too old to be Eugenides! And he speaks so slowly, and he doesn't say things like they're supposed to be said (like when he says he said something softly but actually speaks it in a normal tone). I want my magus to sound like Liam Neeson, not like every single other character, and I don't like how everyone slips into Jersey accents every now and then. Please tell me this guy gets better!
2) Is Pol's name really pronounced like Paul? How... common. I thought it was pronounced "pohl" not "pahl."
3) On the other hand, having an old guy narrate teen Eugenides gives the book a whole new twist. It's like this is really King Eugenides of Attolis and he's telling his story to his own kids or something. The retrospective tone lengthens from being something he's looking back at only, say, a month later to something he's remembering years later.
4) Isn't it funny how the cells in the prison used to be merchant stalls? Gen complains the entire time how the magus treats him like a tool... one that he picked up in the market, perhaps?
5) I just passed the point in the book where Gen shouts at Philonikes. Did we ever find out if word got back to Eddis and MoW? I'd love to learn what it was like for them, from finding out Gen was gone, to hearing of his arrest, to hearing of his escape, only to have him return triumphant yet half-dead.
6) Last question/thought, one prompted by #1. If you had to cast voice actors for each character in The Thief, who would you cast?
