I understand what you're talking about, and to some extent publishers back you up in audio editions. I bet JK Rowling actually hears her stuff in a Glaswegian accent, just saying, since she's vaguely scottish, no?
The books I've been listening to, lately, the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith (another Scotsman) are read in the audio versions by a South African woman, Lissette Lecat, and that really sets them off properly--they mean more when they are read in the right sort of accent.
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Date: 2006-03-19 10:40 pm (UTC)The books I've been listening to, lately, the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith (another Scotsman) are read in the audio versions by a South African woman, Lissette Lecat, and that really sets them off properly--they mean more when they are read in the right sort of accent.