in differentiating from the ones that have only voice of narrator .
I prefer audio books with full character voices , music , sound effects .
Have downloaded bundle of sample mp3s but all of them are just voice , I really dont like it anyways
Can anybody give me a hint ?
If you have experienced some very good audio books in such kind , please feel free to recommend me , thanks everyone
ah , what is "unabridged" in terms people used ?
Try searching for "dramatized audio books" to find sound effects and more than one reader. If you’ll use that search string on Amazon, you’ll come up with about 3 pages of hits, mostly religious texts but also some literary ones.
When a text is reproduced in full and nothing is edited or removed, it is called unabridged. Conversely, when the text is edited or parts are taken out for concerns of brevity, it is abridged. More than likely, dramatized audio books will be abridged because of the amount of time that it takes to add music and the pauses between speakers. For example, my copy of the unabridged, single-narrator Scarlet Letter is ten CDs; if it were dramatized, it would likely be twenty CDs.
With dramatized audio, you’ll get most of the story, and based on what you’ve said, if you prefer sound effects and different actors for each character, you are more likely to retain the gist of the text than if you listened to an unabridged text read by one person without music.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Try searching for "dramatized audio books" to find sound effects and more than one reader. If you’ll use that search string on Amazon, you’ll come up with about 3 pages of hits, mostly religious texts but also some literary ones.
When a text is reproduced in full and nothing is edited or removed, it is called unabridged. Conversely, when the text is edited or parts are taken out for concerns of brevity, it is abridged. More than likely, dramatized audio books will be abridged because of the amount of time that it takes to add music and the pauses between speakers. For example, my copy of the unabridged, single-narrator Scarlet Letter is ten CDs; if it were dramatized, it would likely be twenty CDs.
With dramatized audio, you’ll get most of the story, and based on what you’ve said, if you prefer sound effects and different actors for each character, you are more likely to retain the gist of the text than if you listened to an unabridged text read by one person without music.
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November 27th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I think you would love the Mist, because the special effects are amazing. It’s best to listen to it with a pair of good earphones.
The Mist via Stephen King….
Sound so visual you’re literally engulfed by its bonechilling terror! Stephen King’s sinister imagination and the miracle of 3-D sound transport you to a sleepy all-American town. It’s a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist…creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world.
The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project—the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and you’re forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?
The Mist has you in it grip, and this masterpiece of 3-D sound engineering surrounds you with horror so real that you’ll be grabbing your own arm for reassurance. To one side—and whipping around your chair, a slither of tentacles. Swooping down upon you, a rush grotesque, prehistoric wings. In the impenetrable mist, hearing is seeing—and believing. And what you’re about to hear, you’ll never forget.
Unabridged audio books are word for word readings of a book, while abridged audio books have text edited out by the abridger.
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