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Post by jayme on Dec 29, 2022 9:47:34 GMT
So, I recently discovered the Libby app, and when I kept finding the book I wanted was unavailable, I signed up for a free Audible trial. I'm listening at work when I do the odd task that doesn't require verbal thought, such as filing burrs off of metal, or using go and not-go gauges.
I've been trying to catch up on classics I haven't read. I finally read Tom Sawyer, Animal Farm, 1984, Catch 22, and some others.
Penguin is doing a huge project of making new recordings of all of the Disc World books. I don't recognize all of the narrators, but one of them is Andy Serkis. I've heard that you can read Disc World series in any order, and that it's a bad idea to start with the first one because it is reputed to be the worst. So my first, and so far only Audible purchase was The Color of Magic. And I loved it.
Then, today I listened to Turn of the Screw, and I am utterly confused. Everything is so vague I can't tell what happened. There are a lot of suggestions of what may or may not have happened. It could be this, or it could be that. Usually by the end of a book one can figure out what actually happened, but I felt like I was left hanging not knowing whether the ghosts were real, or the governess was crazy.
So, um, does anyone else listen to audiobooks or have any suggestions?
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Post by tangent on Dec 29, 2022 14:30:39 GMT
I've been trying to catch up on classics I haven't read. I finally read Tom Sawyer, Animal Farm, 1984, Catch 22, and some others. I've read the first three of these and loved them. After my school force-fed me Dickens and Shakespeare, which put me off reading for life, the classics you mention gave me some faith in books again.
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Post by jayme on Dec 30, 2022 4:41:29 GMT
I've been trying to catch up on classics I haven't read. I finally read Tom Sawyer, Animal Farm, 1984, Catch 22, and some others. I've read the first three of these and loved them. After my school force-fed me Dickens and Shakespeare, which put me off reading for life, the classics you mention gave me some faith in books again. I like Dickens, but I don't think Shakespeare is meant to be read, but rather watched on a screen with translating subtitles.
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Post by tangent on Dec 30, 2022 10:31:59 GMT
Translating subtitles? What a good idea! I started watching a modern production of Twelfth Night one year but because my brain is slow to take in language with which I am unfamiliar, I could not grasp any of the script.
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Post by jayme on Dec 30, 2022 12:01:53 GMT
Translating subtitles? What a good idea! I started watching a modern production of Twelfth Night one year but because my brain is slow to take in language with which I am unfamiliar, I could not grasp any of the script. Yeah. British English is weird and unfathomable. Forsooth, I don't know how you doth make it through life when you have to actually live thither. Marry, I beseech thee, ere betwixt wherefore anon thine yonder summat and wherefore sundry, innit?
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Post by tangent on Dec 30, 2022 14:37:08 GMT
*blinks*
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Post by jayme on Dec 31, 2022 7:19:31 GMT
I got my second Audible credit today, so I downloaded The Light Fantastic. So glad you don't have to read Disc World in order!
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 31, 2022 19:54:01 GMT
Heh...All the forsoothing is not 'British', but archaic. The original illegal aliens infecting the Americas also forsoothed right and left. The Founders may have forsoothed.
You are right, though, that Shakespeare is not meant to be read (except for the Sonnets, of course). Plays are made to be viewed as performances by talented actors.
As for audiobooks, I don't use them, as I'm audio-challenged. Hearing impairment impedes enjoyment of such. I much prefer text. I think the subtitles idea workable.
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Post by jayme on Jan 1, 2023 3:37:05 GMT
Yeah, I know that today in the UK they have as much difficulty reading Shake as we do. I was just trying to give tangent heartburn. Found this gem: youtu.be/9YeCpHoy9EQ?t=201
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Post by tangent on Jan 1, 2023 9:46:46 GMT
With a presenter called Philomena Cunk, I'm having difficulty taking it seriously But I've watched the first few minutes and it looks as though it might be interesting... if I can get over the presenter's name. Oh and I do have several bottles of Gaviscon at hand.
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Post by jayme on Jan 1, 2023 10:00:02 GMT
With a presenter called Philomena Cunk, I'm having difficulty taking it seriously But I've watched the first few minutes and it looks as though it might be interesting... if I can get over the presenter's name. Oh and I do have several bottles of Gaviscon at hand. The bit where she says school was easier in Shakespeare's day because they didn't have to study Shakespeare was all I was going for.
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