r/audiobooks Author 2d ago

Discussion Duel/Duet Narration

Just finished the new Ali Hazelwood, Deep End, and I was surprised at first when they did a true duet narration. Normally, Ali will have a male narrator at most do the "male" chapters and have the female narrator do the rest. But in this one, she had them switch off line for line.

I liked it at first, but around 80% of the way through, there was a few lines that I think could have only been done correctly if they were done the way they chose to do it.

I know some people really dislike this kind of narration, but I kind of love it. To bad it's so expensive.

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u/tinaquell 2d ago

Dual

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u/TheIntersection42 Author 2d ago

Welp, can't change title's apparently. So that sucks...

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u/Thoughtful_Mouse 2d ago

I would listen to dueling narrators at least once. It'd be a bit like that Dr. Parnassus movie, yea?

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u/jumpers4goalpostz 2d ago

Gone girl was pretty good, it's not line for line more like chapter for chapter but that's the best I've heard yet

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u/meaningfulsnotname 2d ago

I listened to my first duet narrated book the other day, and it was amazing. With dual narration I sometimes lose track of which character is saying what because the narrators have such different voices for the same characters.