Jurassic Park

"Hmm… Someone thinks it’d be fun to raise lizards at home and then things go bad. Scott is one of the pillars of audiobook narration – I’ll mention a couple of the others in a moment. When I started doing audiobooks, everyone was saying, Scott Brick is the deal. Scott Brick and Simon Vance are the two narrators that I heard the most when I was beginning, and I still hear their names more than mine, damn it! No, I’m kidding. He’s a friend now, and he always gets to do the most amazingly interesting titles, and he manages to make them incredibly interesting. It’s not for nothing that he gets these great titles. So for him to be narrating such an emblematic piece of work, something that is so enormous, is entirely appropriate. The story is in good hands with him, he’s one of the greats. Haha! No, I don’t think Scott’s doing dinosaur noises. Oh, I can’t wait to tell him that, I’ll offer it up as a suggestion. But you ask a really good question regarding audiobook narration. We’re not doing a movie, we’re doing the book. Sometimes, rarely, books will have sound effects or music to support stuff, but that’s done later in post-processing. When the narrator is narrating the book, it’s just the book. It is as if I were sat in your lounge reading to you aloud. So if the author includes dinosaur noises, then you do have to try to approximate that as best you can. Thankfully, I don’t think Crichton really did that in this book. At the most you’ll have onomatopoeia – you know, “The door opened with a screech,” and maybe they’ll write 16 “e”s. Then you obviously need to do something about that. But it is all about just telling the story from the book – you’re not converting the book to other media."