First person narratives

Now... as example the following books...

• Jane Eyre
• PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series
• The Time travellers wife
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Catcher in the rye
• The Eyre Affair
  

...these are all first person narratives.
Secondary characters strictly all speak through the main character.
Here's the question: Should they sound like it?
Now if you were making a movie of one of these books it would be more than a single character sitting in a room talking to the camera so my initial impulse was 'Hell No!'
A little reflection has tempered that to 'Largely No!' Audiobooks are a medium in their own right and have their own artistic code.
More on this tomorrow but for now ta-ta

Ok...
As I was saying yesterday before accidentally and quite rudely interrupting myself and swinging off on a tangent the current webscape regarding audiobooks is limited, at least if one compares it to its juvenile spin-off the podcast.

Interesting point here is what differentiates an audiobook from a podcast?
Definition wise perhaps it is merely that podcasts merely don't stick to a script but if we face facts the difference exists in the same fashion that differences exist between high opera and four kids thrashing out a Sex Pistols medley in their Dad's garage.

Its actually quite a pleasing analogy
On the one hand you have opera: based in control and vocal technic, establishment, requires skills and training practically from birth
Garage bands: passionate, fast paced, potentially excruciating

Well perhaps professional readers don't work to quite the same level of training as opera singers
and, of what I have heard, the podcasts with an audiobook bend ain't that bad but still the distinction is there.