What to Read and Why

De: Francine Prose

Narrado por: Allyson Johnson

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Decent book, distracting narration

In a book where you are supposed to appreciate excerpts of great literature it is a strange choice to go for fake accents when narrating certain authors. It breaks the immersion when the writings of for instance Nabokov and Knausgård are narrated with a completely ridiculous attempt at an Eastern-European (?) accent. It sounds nothing like the authors, and why would they in any case? Writing is writing. Why is a Hollywood villain suddenly reading these parts?

No one should ever

Read anything with fake accent. Especially not Kafka in translation. Negates all the emphasis on truth.

I love the book, but the narration was annoying

I really did not like the accents and found them distracting from an otherwise really interesting book. I have read other of Prose's books (and audio books) and this is the only one with the accents....I don't know why they needed to be done.