The Madness of Theron,* or, THE FALL OF THE KINGS Audiobook, Part XXX

[ellen_kushner]

Now, where were we?

Right, yes:  Last week we recorded all the male actors' scenes for the bits of THE FALL OF THE KINGS audiobook (for Neil Gaiman Presents) that we're illuminating - and today, I returned to the Brooklyn Basement Studio to pick up where I left off my narration recording before the holidays.

We have just hit Theron's Nervous

Comments

[epithalamium]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought was 'Well, Theron is Alec's son. Of course he's bugfuck crazy'?

But now I miss this book. Better read it again while waiting for the audiobook! :D

[ellen_kushner]

I'm curious: Once you hear the audiobooks, does it change the way you read the book afterward (assuming, of course, that anyone would do so)? I mean, is it like seeing a movie and never after being able to picture your own version of a character?

[nohwhere_man]

I seldom get audio books (or movies of books) partly because they mess with my own interpretation of the sights and sounds; very few Get It Right, although IMHO the video version of Pratchett's Going Postal did manage it. OTOH, I suspect that not too many have as much author-ly involvement, and with an author that knows what things sound like.

Theron? Bugfuck crazy or "alternately aware and tormented by inner demons"? Both?

Time to reread the canon.

[achariya]

I haven't listened to yours yet, but this is absolutely the case for the Alex Jennings version of Susan Cooper's awesome series. He managed to make me hear Cornwall and Wales and Oxford, accents that my American brain could never have reproduced during reading. This gave everything a deeper character, that much more richness of detail...

[achariya]

Jessica ex machina! I enjoyed this moment when the princess sailed in to rescue the prince.

I am So Afraid

[em_nat]

Honestly, the entirely of The Fall of the Kings was intensely disturbing to me. It definitely has a dark, haunting quality to it that Swordspoint and Privilege of the Sword do not have. Basil gets extremely creepy and yes, Theron is totally off his nut for the last half of that book. And even Jessica’s role toward the end of the book made me do a doubletake and sort of…give her the eye. She found THE BOOK. She’s a magician now, isn’t she? Is she using the voodoo to get Theron to calm the hell down and do what she tells him to? Oh god, Theron is going to sleep with his own half-sister (THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE PATH OF MY THOUGHTS). I can't trust anyone and nothing is safe! Where am I?! D:

But anyway--I really enjoyed the Swordspoint audio book (haven’t picked up the TPotS audio book yet, though--saving my pennies!). I’m pretty excited to hear the completed Fall of the Kings, too, though with the trepidation of one about to hear a Tale of Horror and Suspense.