Frank Muller is, in my opinion, the greatest audiobook narrator of all time. He lends such a richness to a story when you read it and he and Stephen King are just a perfect match.
My first introduction to Frank was his reading of The Drawing of the Three. His voice IS Roland's. It's incredible. Another thing I love about him is how much he can vary his voice. With many narrators, they tend to have one voice for every middle aged guy or one voice for a New Yorker, etc in a story. So, for example, if a normal narrator read The Drawing of the Three, Enrico Balazar would probably sound exactly like Jack Andolini. But Frank puts such great nuance on each character, that he gives each their own voice. And when he's speaking a line from a woman, you sometimes forget it's a man reading.
His readings of the first four Dark Tower books are nothing short of exemplary. I guess the highest compliment he could get was how SK mentioned in the afterword to Wolves of the Calla that he listened to Frank read the first four books to get back into his own story; his magnum opus no less. "He hears the voices in my head". It's such a tragedy that Frank got into a bad motorcycle accident and had to retire. I would have loved to hear him finish the series; nothing against George Guidall who is good as well.
Does anyone else want to share their thoughts on Frank?
Btw, I have a question if anyone can answer. Why does Frank sound remarkably different in his recordings for, say, Different Seasons than he does in such works as The Green Mile and the Dark Tower series? I realize he recording Different Seasons earlier, but I would think that even 10 years wouldn't change your voice drastically. Does anyone have some inside information about why his voice changed so much? Was it conscious?
My first introduction to Frank was his reading of The Drawing of the Three. His voice IS Roland's. It's incredible. Another thing I love about him is how much he can vary his voice. With many narrators, they tend to have one voice for every middle aged guy or one voice for a New Yorker, etc in a story. So, for example, if a normal narrator read The Drawing of the Three, Enrico Balazar would probably sound exactly like Jack Andolini. But Frank puts such great nuance on each character, that he gives each their own voice. And when he's speaking a line from a woman, you sometimes forget it's a man reading.
His readings of the first four Dark Tower books are nothing short of exemplary. I guess the highest compliment he could get was how SK mentioned in the afterword to Wolves of the Calla that he listened to Frank read the first four books to get back into his own story; his magnum opus no less. "He hears the voices in my head". It's such a tragedy that Frank got into a bad motorcycle accident and had to retire. I would have loved to hear him finish the series; nothing against George Guidall who is good as well.
Does anyone else want to share their thoughts on Frank?
Btw, I have a question if anyone can answer. Why does Frank sound remarkably different in his recordings for, say, Different Seasons than he does in such works as The Green Mile and the Dark Tower series? I realize he recording Different Seasons earlier, but I would think that even 10 years wouldn't change your voice drastically. Does anyone have some inside information about why his voice changed so much? Was it conscious?
