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Looking for recommendations: Three Body Problem (sh.itjust.works)
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See title. Currently reading through the books and would like to listen to re-read the first one as an audiobook (and the other ones once I'm done reading). Does anyone have any recommendations about which narrators they enjoyed?

On libro.fm, I can see the following three versions of the series. The names listed are the names of the narrators:

Luke Daniels / PJ Ochlan (Macmillan Audio, 2014)

Rosalind Chao / Jess Hong (Macmillan Audio, 2024) [This one does not seem to have a book #3 yet]

Daniel York Loh (Bloomsbury, 2023)

I'm currently leaning towards one of the first two. What I normally look for in audiobooks is good sound quality and a narrator who entertains but sticks to reading without acting the whole thing out. Bonus points here would be if the narrator showed some cultural sensibility, especially with regards to names of people/places and some of the historical context given in the books.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

i listened to Daniel Loh's narration of Condor Heroes' English localization. i liked it personally, reminded me of 1970s English dubbed Shaw bros. martial arts movies.

by the same token, his voice is quite low (no pun intended) and raspy/vocal-fried so that can be a turn off for some people.

edit: FWIW Rosalind Chao is a great screen actress and also plays a central character in the Netflix adaptation. that can be a treat for some, but potentially a disorienting meta-textual factor for others.

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