Best Audiobook Narrator?

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My favorite by a mile has to go to Frank Muller, who did the first three Dark Tower books and who I will always think of as the voice of Roland. It is always a treat buying a new audio book and finding out he recorded it.

Unfortunately he was critically injured in a motorcycle accident and no longer records. He may even have passed away since I last checked. But he is such a natural.

Any other great narrators worth buying books to hear?
 
I really like Peter Kenny's work with The Witcher and Roy Dotrice's work with A Song of Ice and Fire. It is a shame he isn't going to be able to finish the series.
 
Andy Serkis actually did an amazing narration of LOTR. So good that when one character is quoting another, he does an impression of that character doing an impression of the character they're quoting. Masterful job.
 
I haven't heard his other books but Dan John Miller narrating Eye in the Sky by Philip K Dick was fantastic.
 
Scott Brick is someone I keep encountering. First heard on the Lost World where his preachy voice worked well for Dr. Malcolm and the general Crichton finger wagging writing.

Heard him again in Dune and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and many more.

The two Chuck Palahniuk novels I listened to had very good, intense narrators: Fight Club and Invisible Monsters. The woman in the latter was perfect.
 
George Guidall
Holter Graham
Lindsay Crouse
Craig Wasson
Steven Weber

All of them are great, they really get into it and it feels like listening to a radio drama more than an audiobook. Weber especially when he did the narration for IT
 
I'm not sure who did the recording, but the guy that narrated the Vainqueur the Dragon trilogy. Literally the funniest books I have ever read, and one of the few series I've read twice. The audio books capture the voice of a dragon perfectly!
 
Both Stephen Briggs and Nigel Planer are wonderful narrators. Both have read for the Discworld series.

Good female narrators seem to be few and far between.
 
Helps me sleep.
 
Oh just remembered a good company. GraphicAudio.

I think their big series is Deathlands (post-nuclear adventure fun). Can be a bit pricey but it's a full cast, narrator, music and soundfx. Basically a radio play.

Just got done with Radioactive Redhead, a little goofy sci-fi noir. Good performance from everyone involved.
 
Stephen Fry and Tim Curry are both pretty great. Stephen Fry narrated the Harry Potter books, and Tim Curry narrated most of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books, both childhood favorite series. Maybe Brits just do it better.
 
That guy who did the audio book narration for Ridk Management
 
Dwight Frye said:
George Guidall
Holter Graham
Lindsay Crouse
Craig Wasson
Steven Weber

All of them are great, they really get into it and it feels like listening to a radio drama more than an audiobook. Weber especially when he did the narration for IT
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Is there anything Guidall has done where he doesn’t just sound like the softest of limp rags?

I honestly can’t stand him in anything I’ve heard him narrate (which hasn’t been since the 90s, now that I think of it).
 
Orbit14k said:
Is there anything Guidall has done where he doesn’t just sound like the softest of limp rags?

I honestly can’t stand him in anything I’ve heard him narrate (which hasn’t been since the 90s, now that I think of it).
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I thought he did well narrating The Dark Tower series. I’ll give you he starts out a bit shaky in The Gunslinger but he finds his voice by Drawing of the Three
 
John Cleese from Monty Python reading CS Lewis's The Screwtape Letters because he does smug Englishman great, and CS Lewis wrote his demons as smug midcentury Englishmen.

Shel Silverstein because nobody else could capture the sharp turns from wackiness to profundity of the material, and he sounds like he draws.
 
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