Has anybody read Barbara Comyns?
I'm intrigued by her books The Vet's Daughter and Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead.
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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."
DavidS - Jan 18, 2011 10:43:21 am PST #13626 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2011 11:36:13 am PST #13627 of 28287
brillig
Has anyone here used LibriVox? It's a website with free recordings of public domain books. I'm looking at a long bus trip and was thinking of listening to a book on my mp3 player. Is the quality good? The readers are volunteers, and I don't know how good they are. (And I'm thinking it could be fun to volunteer myself.)
Consuela - Jan 18, 2011 2:50:28 pm PST #13628 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Connie, the reading quality at Librivox is really a crapshoot. Some of it's okay, some of it is ... not. The worst, I find, is when they have a different reader for each chapter of the book.
The one audiobook I really enjoyed from Librivox was Scaramouche, because the reader was quite good and was able to pronounce the French with some accuracy.
I recommend downloading sample chapters from a few different books and finding a reader you like, then backtracking that reader. I have entire books I got from Librivox I can't listen to because the reader mumbles, or mispronounces words, or just annoys me.
megan walker - Jan 18, 2011 2:53:27 pm PST #13629 of 28287
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The one audiobook I really enjoyed from Librivox was Scaramouche
Great, now I have "Bohemian Rhapsody" in my head.
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2011 2:56:21 pm PST #13630 of 28287
brillig
(resisting remarks about the fandango)
Thanks, Consuela!
Gris - Jan 19, 2011 2:41:19 am PST #13631 of 28287
Hey. New board.
I know we have some Amazon boycotters, but for those of us who are not of that persuasion you can buy a $20 Amazon gift card for $10 today at Living Social. Mine will be applied towards Kindle books for sure!
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2011 6:34:30 am PST #13632 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And if you haven't signed up with LivingSocial already, use one of these coupon codes to get $5 off, making it $5 for a $20 Amazon gift card, which is awesome.
Steph L. - Jan 19, 2011 6:52:27 am PST #13633 of 28287
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And if you haven't signed up with LivingSocial already, use one of these coupon codes to get $5 off, making it $5 for a $20 Amazon gift card, which is awesome.
LivingSocial says that you can't use the $5 credit towards the Amazon card. $10 for $20 still isn't too shabby, though.
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2011 6:59:55 am PST #13634 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
LivingSocial says that you can't use the $5 credit towards the Amazon card.
That's what not they said LAST NIGHT.
(Guess they changed it after everyone abused the shit out of it.)
Sophia Brooks - Jan 19, 2011 11:02:40 am PST #13635 of 28287
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Connie- I do not know if it is too late on the Librivox question, but I have a real life friend who sometimes uses Librivox, and who is very picky (he actually will buy audiobooks from many different readers because he likes there style) He told me that there is a reader who reads PG Wodehouse books on Librivox by the name of Tim Bulkeley that he would recommend.