Every single time a character we haven't heard in 10 minutes comes back into focus, the listener is jolted with a reminder of how bad that accent rendition is. What chance does a narrator have to be faithful in reading dozens of accents from a book that has 30+ hours of voice time? None.

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Seveneves by neal stephenson