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I'm listening to this audiobook excerpt right now about the Trump Presidency, and yes, Everything Is Terrible, but that's not the reason why it's on my laptop, tbh.

It's the narrator's voice that I'm actually interested in, (Holter Graham) and how he goes about his craft.



Holter Graham's pace is fluid and fluent, and he doesn't rush.

His diction is clear, and you can tell the difference when he goes from the third person narrative to actual spoken dialogue. e.g. 'Melania Trump didn't want Donald Trump to run for President, and he tried to mollify her. "Don't put the cart before the horse," her husband said'. You can actually hear the speech in quotations in one tone of voice and the narrative in a different way. It's really quite brilliant.

It does help that writer (Wolff) knows how to write a potboiler, but Graham is really performing the heck of the material. When he reads Ivanka's voice, he gets the pseudo baby coquette voice that she has. For Trump, he gets the idea of his braggadocious and wheeling tones without sounding anything like him.

There are some parts of the audiobook where he has to read an excerpt of Trump's speech, and he does so with the manic conviction that Trump has, with again, an impression of him, but not him.

Absolutely brilliant.

You can also even hear the 'punctuation marks' in his voice if that makes sense? Not just exclamation and question marks, but ranging from the mini pause of the comas, to the longer pauses of semicolons and colons. He truly gets the notion of a good audio being the 'Theatre of the mind' when done well.


A few podficcers I have listened to have come very close to this standard, to be fair. But it's good to hear the professional level for an audio reader, and Graham has been in the game for a long time.

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