But it would be cool to hear atevi speech patterns out loud (not to mention Bren's mile-a-minute frantic inner thoughts that ricochet all over the place ... wonder if those get read faster?), just as the new Chanur audiobooks make me want to hear how the reader handles tc'a (which is tricky enough just reading to oneself) ...
P.S. I succumbed to curiosity, so volume 1 now lives here and I've listened to a bit. Not bad, though a few name pronunciations are a bit off (knowing that is my own fault for having listened to the sound files of Cherryh's pronunciations ... as long as the reader doesn't pronounce Cenedi as "Kennedy" I'll try not to twitch too much ***grin***). Atevi speech a bit slow and "Tonto"-ish as if they're the ones who are speaking a foreign language, which makes Banichi and Tabini teasing Bren about assignations sound a bit odd ... too slow and ponderous for that pair being funny. Hopefully that lessens as the reader gets further into the books and more relaxed in the reading of them. But, overall, pretty good. And it doesn't matter if my brain misses a bit due to distraction because I know the story so well. :-)
