Visual Dis-Euphonics
I am currently listening to a reading of Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden, the first of his Barchester Novels. It is being read by Simon Vance, who has a nice voice and is quite pleasant to listen to.
I spent last week listening to a reading of all four of Naomi Novick's Temeraire novels (His Majesty's Dragon, etc, etc.), which was also read by Mr. Vance.
Rather than doing a flat reading, Mr. Vance adopts different voices for each of the characters he's reading. The voice in which he is currently reading the character of Eleanor Harding, a young maiden of some 20 years and the youngest daughter of Mr. Harding, the Warden of whom the book is written, is almost *exactly* the same as the one in which he read the character of the dragon Temeraire, a large dragon of warlike nature, who outweighs a 100 gun ship of the line.
It is... disconcerting, and I keep having the most startling mental images. The fact that the Temeraire books were written in a style not unlike the Victorian novel that The Warden actually is does not in any way make the thing less so.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Friday evening...
I spent last week listening to a reading of all four of Naomi Novick's Temeraire novels (His Majesty's Dragon, etc, etc.), which was also read by Mr. Vance.
Rather than doing a flat reading, Mr. Vance adopts different voices for each of the characters he's reading. The voice in which he is currently reading the character of Eleanor Harding, a young maiden of some 20 years and the youngest daughter of Mr. Harding, the Warden of whom the book is written, is almost *exactly* the same as the one in which he read the character of the dragon Temeraire, a large dragon of warlike nature, who outweighs a 100 gun ship of the line.
It is... disconcerting, and I keep having the most startling mental images. The fact that the Temeraire books were written in a style not unlike the Victorian novel that The Warden actually is does not in any way make the thing less so.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Friday evening...