a.) It is. The Kite Runner is read by the author. The rest of them are LibriVox recordings, which are done by random everyday people who volunteer. Siddhartha, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Wind in the Willows I downloaded specifically because of the reader -- you can search LibriVox by reader, and this guy is my favorite I've found so far -- but the rest are a mystery to me. If someone's REALLY awful, I stop listening. That's only happened a couple of times so far, though, and I've been using LibriVox for a while now.
b.) Weird? Really? I would think The Canterbury Tales would be one of those things that's better out loud. I mean, it's people telling each other stories out loud as they travel, so it's that sort of it's natural form? I dunno, I just love to be read to. I'd happily listen to the phone book if someone wanted to read it to me.
c.) hahaha, yeah, when I first downloaded and unzipped the Dumas stuff and saw how long all of it was, I was like "HOLY SHIT, MAN, DID YOU KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP!?" XD The Count of Monte Cristo = 117 chapters. (Moby Dick apparently has 135 and an epilogue, but presumably they're short, since that book takes HALF THE TIME to read.)
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Date: 2010-02-21 09:59 pm (UTC)b.) Weird? Really? I would think The Canterbury Tales would be one of those things that's better out loud. I mean, it's people telling each other stories out loud as they travel, so it's that sort of it's natural form? I dunno, I just love to be read to. I'd happily listen to the phone book if someone wanted to read it to me.
c.) hahaha, yeah, when I first downloaded and unzipped the Dumas stuff and saw how long all of it was, I was like "HOLY SHIT, MAN, DID YOU KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP!?" XD The Count of Monte Cristo = 117 chapters. (Moby Dick apparently has 135 and an epilogue, but presumably they're short, since that book takes HALF THE TIME to read.)