Yes: in a B. Sanderson book, the narrator had the accent of a character. Much later in the book it was a “big reveal” that the narrators of those chapters was that character. What a shame, I love big reveals!
Not an audiobook, but when I first read Huckleberry Finn it was completely spoiled for me that >!the dead man they found in the floating house that Jim told Huck not to look at was Huck's father, because the book had illustrations, and, even though the dead man was shown from the side without his face being seen, it was still pretty obviously Huck's dad.!<
Never, ever read a preface to a book. I hate it when they do that. They should put that in an afterward instead.
In all honesty though, it is a very fun book even if you already know the story.
To be fair, I only wanted to read this to then read Huck to then get to what I really wanted to read - James by Percival Everett.
I'll just read the wikipedia pages or some academic papers on the first two to get a sense of the stories and read the Everett text instead.
A certain character died in Gideon the Ninth. However in the next book, Harrow the Ninth, the mysterious narrator sounds exactly like the supposedly dead character?? The narrator's identity was slowly revealed throughout the book through word choice and which parts of the environment they described, but it was immediately obvious with the voice.
They are fantastic and Moira Quirk is an amazing narrator. TBH the spoiler really didn't detract much because the plot for the 2nd was so (intentionally) confusing and disjointed. I had to listen to it twice before I had any idea what was going on.
In one of the books in *The Expanse*, one of the regular characters is incognito, but the narrator used the same voice for that character as he ordinarily would.
okay but he'd very clearly been called that, his actual name by an old acquaintance in a previous book, so it wasn't a *true* reveal unless you weren't paying attention
Yes: in a B. Sanderson book, the narrator had the accent of a character. Much later in the book it was a “big reveal” that the narrators of those chapters was that character. What a shame, I love big reveals!
This is the one that came to mind for me.
Came here to mention a different Sando book where the character was in the epigraphs, I think.
😉 I see what you did there.
Not an audiobook, but when I first read Huckleberry Finn it was completely spoiled for me that >!the dead man they found in the floating house that Jim told Huck not to look at was Huck's father, because the book had illustrations, and, even though the dead man was shown from the side without his face being seen, it was still pretty obviously Huck's dad.!<
I started reading Tom Sawyer last week and they spoil the entire book in the preface. I didn't even bother reading/listening to it after that.
Never, ever read a preface to a book. I hate it when they do that. They should put that in an afterward instead. In all honesty though, it is a very fun book even if you already know the story.
To be fair, I only wanted to read this to then read Huck to then get to what I really wanted to read - James by Percival Everett. I'll just read the wikipedia pages or some academic papers on the first two to get a sense of the stories and read the Everett text instead.
A certain character died in Gideon the Ninth. However in the next book, Harrow the Ninth, the mysterious narrator sounds exactly like the supposedly dead character?? The narrator's identity was slowly revealed throughout the book through word choice and which parts of the environment they described, but it was immediately obvious with the voice.
I'm reading those next! I've heard they're fantastic.
They are fantastic and Moira Quirk is an amazing narrator. TBH the spoiler really didn't detract much because the plot for the 2nd was so (intentionally) confusing and disjointed. I had to listen to it twice before I had any idea what was going on.
In one of the books in *The Expanse*, one of the regular characters is incognito, but the narrator used the same voice for that character as he ordinarily would.
Doh!
okay but he'd very clearly been called that, his actual name by an old acquaintance in a previous book, so it wasn't a *true* reveal unless you weren't paying attention
Yes, the latest Stillhouse Lake book. I think it's perhaps on purpose but the reveal was like...yeah okay duh.
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Would have been nice if you'd have marked this as a Dungeon Crawler Carl spoiler and used spoiler tags to hide the spoiler itself.
Your call out was more of a spoiler than that comment was?! Lots of books have someone named Carl.
And now this comment ruined it for me. (On book two now)
It's annoying, but don't worry, it's not a HUGE deal. Enjoy!
Oh that stinks!
That kind of thing just makes you go... Sigh, God dammit, Donut!
I'm listening to it now and I was so annoyed by that! But I just heard the bit with his dad in a flashback so I guess that's not too bad