She Was Born in Cleveland, Ohio. She's Not a Foreign Exchange Student.
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“I got to chapter 10 and called it quits. The story was pretty good, but the characters' believability are as important as the plots' believability, and there's a Spanish female character who the author says "finds it funny men think her exotic since she was born in Cleveland, Ohio"--yet every time he reads in the character's voice she has a heavier accent than any of my Spanish friends who were born in Spanish-speaking countries and only been here a few years. It's crazy--she sounds worse than a foreign exchange student.
The author's ignorance in voicing this character killed the story for me. I just couldn't get past it no matter how hard I tried. NO ONE born in America to a Spanish-speaking family sounds like this. It's beyond absurd. It's the worst character-voicing I've ever heard, and I've listened to A LOT of audio books. It's like he went "OK, she's Spanish, better do my best to mimic that wacky Spanish accent I heard on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago." It's cartoonish and childish in execution and kills all believability of the character and every scene she appears in.
For all the work the author seems to have put into researching and inventing the science behind this book, it would seem he put no effort whatsoever in researching culture. If the only people you know about is middle-aged white men, stick with writing about middle-aged white men. I tried to get pass it, but every time the character spoke all I could think about was how uncultured the author was and how ignorant he sounded voicing an American-born character like a foreign exchange student.
The characters are as important as the story.”
Exitmat79 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/11/12
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“The story was full of gore, action & dark humor. Everything I look for in a good story. Thank you!”
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United States of America ·
06/16/10
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