The Sword and Laser discussion

I loved the blade itself audio book. Steven Pacey should get whatever award you would give to an audio book reader... but, am I the only one who is bothered by the word "grimace" being pronounced like grim-ace? I was brought up to believe that grimace should be pronounced like a certain purple resident of McDonald land. I'd be able to let it go, but it seems to be one of Joe Abercrombie's favorite words.

Anyway, good audio book(s). I'm almost finished with the third.

I am SO glad i'm not the only one this got to! I think i actually developed a sixth sense for when the word was coming up; perhaps Steven Pacey was actually verbally bracing himself for it.

But i agree, Tarrant (erm, I mean Mr Pacey) did an excellent job.

Has anyone come across any other pronunciations that really annoy them? One that has started to get to me is on at least three occasions i've heard American readers pronouncing the word "banal" to rhyme with "anal". Is this genuinely how some people say that word, have they never heard it spoken, or should we be paging Dr Freud?

Roy Dotrice does a fantastic job narrating the first three Song of Ice and Fire books, but he has a weird (to me at least) way of pronouncing the words 'prove' and 'proven'. His pronunciations rhyme with 'clove' and 'cloven', which just seems wrong to me.

I can't bring myself to get the audiobooks for Best Served Cold / The Heroes because I do not want to hear different voices. Pacey and First Law are my favorite audiobook experiences so far.

I like how he says grimace. It's how I say it now. Because I'm pretentious.

I didn't realize Pacey wasn't reading Heroes & Best Served Cold. * Sadness and guilt settle in *. Come back Steven Pacey. You can say grim-ace however you want. You were right. Lets never fight again.

Loving the audiobooks and it is different from how we pronounce it in America. It is his English accent that does it. There are a few other words he uses that I notice and I can't think of them off of the top of my head.

Enjoying "Last Argument of Kings" right now.

Wil Wheaton reading Ready Player One kept enunciating "capsule" so precisely it was jarring. And that word popped up a lot near the end. Otherwise his reading of the book was fantastic.

For some reason I thought the word riffle sounded like rifle. Thank you audio books!

I'm just listening to them right now, on book two, and have the exact same thing! Though I think I'm starting to get used to it.
There are a few other words that he pronounces strangely, like dour he pronounces dure (rhymes with lure).
Anyway, the random strangely pronounced word are sometimes a bit jarring, but his gift at bringing an entire cast alive is so worth it.

I read the First Law books, and I didn't actually notice the word being overused. So question is if it really is overused in the book or if it's a word that just pops out when heard. Quite interested to see a word count on it actually :)

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