In the what-goes-wrong category, podfic or pro: a wrongly-inflected reading is high on my list of irritants that will make me switch it off unless the text is remarkably good.
By wrongly-inflected I mean emphasizing the wrong things vocally, betraying a lack of understanding of what the text means: putting the stress in the wrong place in the sentence and not bothering to fix it with an edit.
It is amazing how often this happens in pro audiobooks, and it annoys the crap out of me.
I've run across this sometimes, and yes, it is off-putting. But it's not what most often puts me off a professional audiobook. I think you're on to something when you say that most often we record a text because we love it and we love the characters. I think something of that love often shines through.
Sort of related to this, I was watching a movie recently with some friends, and I didn't much like the movie because I wasn't interested in the characters and thus didn't care what happened to them. I usually want a close connection with the characters when I read/listen to a book, too, and if the reader is reading in a manner that I feel is distanced and sort of professionally slick, I won't like it. (Well, of course there are always exceptions where the story demands a detached POV.)
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By wrongly-inflected I mean emphasizing the wrong things vocally, betraying a lack of understanding of what the text means: putting the stress in the wrong place in the sentence and not bothering to fix it with an edit.
It is amazing how often this happens in pro audiobooks, and it annoys the crap out of me.
I've run across this sometimes, and yes, it is off-putting. But it's not what most often puts me off a professional audiobook. I think you're on to something when you say that most often we record a text because we love it and we love the characters. I think something of that love often shines through.
Sort of related to this, I was watching a movie recently with some friends, and I didn't much like the movie because I wasn't interested in the characters and thus didn't care what happened to them. I usually want a close connection with the characters when I read/listen to a book, too, and if the reader is reading in a manner that I feel is distanced and sort of professionally slick, I won't like it. (Well, of course there are always exceptions where the story demands a detached POV.)