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Post by lola on Nov 9, 2009 17:31:57 GMT
I used to listen to a lot of books on tape when my job involved driving.
The reader makes such a difference with recorded books. There was one woman, Flo somebody, who read a lot at that time; I groaned when I heard her voice. That was during my Trollope phase, but she often popped up elsewhere. TV and movie stars sometimes turn in suprisingly bad jobs, but the author tends to read best.
My daughter and I listened to The Iliad, read by translator Prof Stanley Lombardo, on our recent long toad trip. It's a lovely translation.
A character in a book I'm reading says the Iliad is "...the great epic of the world...," and also, "a continued outcry against adultery." I think of it as an outcry against war.
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Post by imec on Nov 9, 2009 18:48:47 GMT
That was during my Trollope phase Funny lola, I never took you for one of those ;D I love good storytelling - Britain just recently named its first Storytelling Laureate. |
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Post by tillystar on Nov 9, 2009 22:09:05 GMT
I went through a stage of loving listening to Garrison Keillor reading his Lake Wobegon Books. Kept me enertained for many long train journeys up and down the country.
I had a set of Sherlock Holmes cassettes which I loved listening to on dark rainy winter's nights. I can't rememer who it was read by but he had a deep crackly Grandad by the fire voice.
A childhood throughback - I have been listening to David Bowie reading Peter and and Wolf on youtube the other night. It was magic listening to that as a kid, but that was more the music than the storytelling.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2009 22:23:36 GMT
I will check out the David Bowie/Peter and the Wolf. I have fond memories of too.Went to see Leonard Bernstein do with a class from school as a child.
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Post by lola on Nov 9, 2009 23:02:21 GMT
We got all dressed up as kids, went with our mother to the Opera House for Peter in the Wolf narrated by Captain Kangaroo.
Keillor has such a good storytelling voice.
I love how Taffy Thomas, storytelling laureate, looks. Would love to settle in around the fire and listen to him.
Yes, imec, I have been Trollopy in my past, sad to tell.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2009 0:56:45 GMT
The thing that I like about the books on tape/CD is they are passed along,recycled,loaned out more it seems then books are which make them so much more appreciated. People(myself included) have a tendency to hoard books much more then they do tapes or cds. People who do a lot of driving are always swapping out new material,makes sense.
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Post by lola on Nov 11, 2009 20:21:15 GMT
I listened to a library loan of Tennessee Williams on CD reading from Glass Menagerie while washing the lunch dishes today. I love that soft accent of his, the way he says Amanda's "Go to the moon, you selfish dreamer!" and of course his take on the opening and ending monologues.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2009 3:58:52 GMT
how perfect too that it is set in St. Louis.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 12, 2009 15:40:31 GMT
I listen to Beginner's Spanish language CDs.
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Post by lola on Nov 12, 2009 16:36:16 GMT
Perfect for language, spindrift. I guess when you get more proficient you could listen to Spanish literature on tape. I must dust off the French CDs for when my daughter goes to Paris fall semester and "needs" her mama to escort her over there.
You can go by the apartment house where the Williams lived in the Central West End and kind of imagine Amanda yelling that from the back staircase/fire escape. Tom's real life annoying little brother never featured in these tales.
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