The audio version of Skulduggery Pleasant is lousy. The reader does most of the voices completely wrong to the way they sound in my head. Not tonally as much as the attitude; like, a sentence that I always read as sarcastic was read as tentative and meek. I cannot abide audiobooks not agreeing with me.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2010 8:30:17 am PDT #11153 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
DavidS - Mar 26, 2010 8:33:46 am PDT #11154 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, Stephen Briggs does a good job with Pratchett. I also got the audiocassette for an abridged version of L.A. Confidential as done by David Straitharn for a dollar. Good value, plus I'm driving down to LA next week.
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2010 8:39:00 am PDT #11155 of 28344
Coding and Sleeping
I've listened to both Fry and Dale, and I'd say Gris nailed it. There are a few Dale voices that grate on me, but they are more distinctive.
I'd recommend The Golden Compass for a good audiobook listen it has a cast rather than a single reader, which is great.
Mala - Mar 26, 2010 12:37:37 pm PDT #11156 of 28344
I mostly liked Dale, but his Hermione and Luna voices just didn't work for me at all. I really liked his voices for everybody else, though, and he was great at describing action.
Consuela - Mar 26, 2010 7:45:35 pm PDT #11157 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have found Pratchett makes for excellent audiobook reading. I'm currently most of the way through Small Gods.
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2010 10:18:28 pm PDT #11158 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just finished Soulless. I think some people here have enjoyed it as well.
askye - Mar 29, 2010 4:26:21 pm PDT #11159 of 28344
Thrive to spite them
I liked Soulless, it did take me a bit to get into it but now I can't to read the next one/.
I've also mainlined Kim Harrison's Hollows series. Really enjoying that.
Atropa - Mar 29, 2010 7:38:47 pm PDT #11160 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Loved, loved, LOVED Soulless. And my copy of Changeless is on its way!
sumi - Mar 30, 2010 4:20:27 am PDT #11161 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
I ordered both yesterday.
Oh, I turned a friend on to Diana Wynne Jones books. She needed something light and absorbing. (She's feeling down.) So I discovered that a new Diana Wynne Jones book is coming out on the 10th.
megan walker - Mar 30, 2010 7:29:50 am PDT #11162 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Stayed up last night to finish The Hunger Games. Reserved the second volume this morning. Thankful that I am only hold #4 because I don't think I can wait that long to read it.