The reading team has been having difficulty locating some of the books mentioned yesterday. It led me to do a search on the Net for full texts of out-of-copyright books. There are a surprising number out there. Of course, you've still got to print the bleeders out, so how about audiobooks for free or close to free? Telltale Weekly is a site where you can buy audiobooks for as little as 25 cents. Before you get too excited, I have to tell you they don't have much on-line yet, but the library is growing. Might even record something and upload it myself.
Posted by Joe at March 18, 2004 05:30 PMI have to admit that I am at present thoroughly enjoying an audiobook (An Unsocial Socialist) even though the reader is North American and the book demands a wide variety of British accents from aristocrat to commoner.
Audiobooks are excellent for long drives and those all-too-frequent times when the eyes have fagged out from too much PC viewing.
Let's not forget Project Gutenberge:
http://www.promo.net/pg/
Joe, I go all a-quiver at the thought of hearing something Dickensian in your dulcet tones ...
;-)
I think Martin's post above is very telling. NA-types just have no clue. It took a Brit to point out to me, for example, the different accents among the hens in Chicken Run and what they implied.
Posted by: DJ at March 19, 2004 07:02 PMDJ, I have to say that the NA reader is very good in the narration parts of the audiobook but fails - hilariously - with accents in speech, especially the working class ones. Imagine as an American having to listen to Prince Charles read something by Damon Runyan:)
Posted by: martin at March 20, 2004 11:17 AM