A Series of Unfortunate Events, Audiobook 1: The Bad Beginning (ON LENGTHY HIATUS)
Bob Singer for Narrator
I would like the Narrator to be very well spoken. Like an intelligent man, which Lemony Snicket is... Of course. I also (For whatever reason) think it fitting that the Narrator speak with an English accent. So, unless you naturally have an English accent, I would like you to record each line twice. Once with your regular accent, and once with the previously described dialect. Of course, if you are not capable of immitating the rather intellectual sounding speach pattern made by our dear friends to the East, you may record in your natural voice only. No doubt recording these lengthy lines are quite the hastle, let alone recording them twice.
If you lack the skill of mimicing accents, you are still capable of earning the role... I will merely consider you as a lesser being than myself as of course, If I cannot find someone who I deem fit I shall take it upon myself to become the Narrator since it seems like less of a hassle than sending an entire book to someone and waiting for their recording to come in. "Hassle" Is a word which here means, "An irritating, annoying and pestering inconviniencing task that could be easily avoided." That is all
(Sidenote, whomever recieves the role of Narrator, will also be playing the role of Lemony Snicket, as they are the same person.)
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle."
"Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, liked to skip rocks. Like most fourteen-year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand than when she used her left. Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into the ocean."
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and it you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it."
I like your voice, but there was an annoying buzz which appeared whenever you spoke. Is there anyway you could rid your audio of that sound?
Sure. Let me re-record just the accented version for you.