Does Sarah Vowell have the most annoying voice in America?
My Audible subscription pick for this month was her new audiobook Assassination Vacation.
Very bad choice.
While I share her obvious love of the medium of radio, Vowell's voice, with its grating, upward-infecting-at-the-end-of-each-sentence timbre, makes her sound like that overly self-assured, hyper-ambitious English student you hated when you were at university.
Come to think of it, she writes like that overly self-assured, hyper-ambitious English student you hated when you were at university as well. I'm willing to bet she edited the college newspaper.
After 40 minutes of her audiobook I could bear no more.
My Audible subscription pick for this month was her new audiobook Assassination Vacation.
Very bad choice.
While I share her obvious love of the medium of radio, Vowell's voice, with its grating, upward-infecting-at-the-end-of-each-sentence timbre, makes her sound like that overly self-assured, hyper-ambitious English student you hated when you were at university.
Come to think of it, she writes like that overly self-assured, hyper-ambitious English student you hated when you were at university as well. I'm willing to bet she edited the college newspaper.
After 40 minutes of her audiobook I could bear no more.
posted by Stuart at 19:04
2 Comments:
There's no question that Sarah Vowell's voice is, um, an acquired taste. I don't think I would ever buy an audiobook read by her. But in short doses, as in the stories she does for This American Life, her voice can be quite effective. When I saw a live recording in New York of the show that included her, I absolutely loved her presentation of a story that involved her undergoing a goth makeover.
But yeah, beyond 20 minutes or so, not so great.
So you didn't even care for her in The Incredibles?
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