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This audiobook is amazing, not simply for its content — William
Gibson’s Neuromancer is a wonderful book regardless — but for its
narrator. I’m not sure who the narrator is, but they have a very
interesting voice. Specifically, they either have some strange accent, a
sort of cross between a British and Texan accent, or they have some
speech defect which I have never heard before. I’m going with the higher
probability of the latter being true. They often switch vowel types, so
that, for instance, a short “a” as in “anarchist” becomes long as in
“awesome”. There appears to be no consistent pattern to it; they will
switch multiple vowels within one word and then none at all in the next.
I wish I knew who they were.
I have listened to this book seven or eight times, and I feel like I
know the narrator now, as if they are some part of myself, some program
in my brain that I can access. I kind of want to upload this book to the
world as a reality check to make sure that I’m not hearing extra voices
reading me my favourite books, which is totally something my brain would do.
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