The original was a good audiobook, but I noticed both of the errors in computer terms because my computer history goes back to the 1980s. I didn’t catch Wheaton mispronouncing other words, but I still trip sometimes over words I’ve seen written but not heard pronounced.
The original audio book of “The Martian” had two computer terms pronounced very wrong. ASCII, correctly ‘ass-key,’ was pronounced ‘A-S-C-two.’ And the person who ran the computers on the Earth to Mars ship, the sysop, should have been pronounced ‘sis-op’. Short for System Operator. Instead we got ‘cy-sop.’
The book had to be re-recorded for some sort of rights reasons, and both errors were fixed in the second version.
She was also 20 years old when she wrote P&P.
Agreed. I’ve never seen one of those continuation books that were as good as the original. I would say that Jill Paton Walsh came closest with the Lord Peter Wimsey books. The first two were not Sayers but were pretty good. The last two, however, were dismal.
Nora Roberts/JD Robb has many, many characters ‘draw in a breath’ while thinking before they speak. Many.
Lois Bujold, in her science fiction and fantasy, uses ‘suffused’ an average of once per book. Which isn’t much over all, but it’s about once per book more than most authors would use it.