SlyFoxx on 14/3/2010 at 12:49
Thanks for the link. I'm sure York will be great with his narration.
I still have a 4 LP set and first edition of the book from when I was just a wee lad.
snowcap21 on 14/3/2010 at 13:40
I've read the book(s) a few years ago, before that I only knew it as a children's story. Nice to have it as an audio book now, maybe it'll help train my listening comprehension a bit while being entertaining. Thanks!
Xenith on 14/3/2010 at 17:04
Try (
www.librivox.org) as well. I found some nice stuff there (I only searched for Poe, Lovecraft and the likes, but they've got a lot of things there).
PeeperStorm on 14/3/2010 at 18:15
Downloading as I type.
Speaking of audio books, it's worth looking for The Screwtape Letters read by John Cleese. His "upper class British bastard" rendition was perfect for it.
Enchantermon on 15/3/2010 at 00:16
Quote Posted by Xenith
Try (
www.librivox.org) as well. I found some nice stuff there (I only searched for Poe, Lovecraft and the likes, but they've got a lot of things there).
Cool, thanks!
Quote Posted by PeeperStorm
Speaking of audio books, it's worth looking for
The Screwtape Letters read by John Cleese. His "upper class British bastard" rendition was perfect for it.
Interesting. I'll need to look into that, thanks.
demagogue on 15/3/2010 at 13:26
One of my favorite past times is reading a book aloud with someone (also scripts), and Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorites. Most good books are also good to read aloud. I'd rather do that than ever get an audio-book. But people have different occasions for reading books (like long train commutes) so I understand the appeal.
Edit: Good books to read aloud (in my experience): Alice in Wonderland, The Metamorphosis, Gulliver's Travels (depends), Catch 22 ... stuff from Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley (Chrome Yellow was great fun), George Orwell (maybe also Emerson & Thoreau, Stanislav Lem, some H.G. Wells, Borges?, Nietzsche, Dickens?) ... As for scripts, Fraiser scripts always go well. Basically, things with very tight and witty dialog or description, where the language carries you down a certain perfect logic but somehow ends up a little bent when it gets there in fun ways. I'd imagine they'd make for good audio-books too.
