Readers voices on books on tape

The last two books I have listened to were long (over 50 hours) and by the end, the readers' voices became annoying to distraction.

- Freedom by Jonathon Franzen. Reader using different voices and accents- very poorly. For example a deep voiced white male trying to speak like a Brazillian woman.

-American Pastoral by Phillip Roth. Reader had a New Jersey/New York accent that was really thick. Certainly appropriate for the selection, but by the end, I felt like I was being lectured by a New Yorker.

- Shogun. Just started it this weekend. So far, so good. Reader has a British accent and has done a decent job thus far with the Dutch and Japanese accents. It's a long book though....