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Post by Maliris on Jun 10, 2007 15:00:20 GMT -5
Since August 2006, there exists a Poison Audio-CD-Thing. It has a striking and beautiful cover-artwork that reminds of the original book-cover. After all it´s purple. :] Virginia Leishman does a nice job reading. Her voice is enjoable and articulate. LINK: www.wfhowes.co.uk/catalogue/titles.php?&t=2254There´s a excerpt on the page, too. So if you´re interested you can listen to it. :> I do like it. I might buy it...
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Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Jun 30, 2007 22:40:58 GMT -5
hmm.....more collectibles...
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Post by shyviolet on Jul 1, 2007 3:43:40 GMT -5
Nice cover art, I'm loving the gargoyle.
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Post by marleen on Aug 15, 2007 4:57:57 GMT -5
I don't like audiobooks at all. I tend to fall asleep after a minute or so. I've never in my life managed to endure an audiobook to the end. I also like reading for giving you the ability of finding your own pace.
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Post by shyviolet on Aug 15, 2007 9:13:04 GMT -5
We always used to listen to audio books when we were ill, it had the double value of keeping you occupied and putting you to sleep.
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Post by Maliris on Aug 15, 2007 13:50:25 GMT -5
I must admit that I haven´t listened to an audio-book in, well, many years. Back when I was small and we (my family and I) went on vacation we used to listen to some audio-books in the car. Which not only "kept us occupied and put us to sleep" but also drove my parents mad. XD
But I must say that I do like what I heard thus far. I mean, the Poison Audio-CD. I think it works, making a Poison-Audio-version. It would not really work with The Braided Path... I dunno, I cannot picture the Braided Path as an audio-cd. I´d need different voices to keep track of all the characters. XD
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Post by zemira on Aug 16, 2007 7:38:34 GMT -5
Yeah, Braided Path would be difficult to keep everything straight as a CD. I know I have to keep flipping back to certain parts to remember things. I especially had that problem in the first book, with so many Baraks running around.
I'm not a fan of audio books either. I like to actually read the words. The way they're read out loud will affect the meaning, so I like to read it myself to get my own meaning.
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Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Aug 17, 2007 15:02:24 GMT -5
I found the Poison CD at my local Wal-mart! It was back by the automotive section. I decided not to get it though.
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Post by iamthelizardqueen on Mar 28, 2008 12:44:52 GMT -5
I don't like audio books either, as I find it offputting to hear people reading them, and I find it difficult to visualise. I would consider buying the audio version of Poison if I were to see it in a shop, just for the novelty, and of course the Chris Wooding support
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Post by GhostEggplant on Mar 28, 2008 18:03:01 GMT -5
I liked the Poison excerpt thing, though I didn't hear any dialogue (which could either make it really good or horrendously bad).
Has anyone here heard the Ender's Game audio book? I heard part of it in class, and found it hysterical. The narrator was either a woman or a man with a really deep voice, and neither of them fit Ender. XD
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Post by lisajane on Mar 28, 2008 22:40:22 GMT -5
I don't like audio books (my best friend loves them, but that's because she hates to read). I can't stand the ones where the narrator doesn't use different voices for all the characters, because then it becomes very monotonic and boring.
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Post by shyviolet on Mar 30, 2008 3:25:58 GMT -5
The only true audio book I've listened to is the Harry Potter ones, so I'm probably biased because Stephen Fry is amazing at doing that sort of thing. I can't believe he can be bothered to read out such loooong books for the later ones.
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Post by lisajane on Mar 30, 2008 3:49:31 GMT -5
The only true audio book I've listened to is the Harry Potter ones, so I'm probably biased because Stephen Fry is amazing at doing that sort of thing. I can't believe he can be bothered to read out such loooong books for the later ones. They're my friend's favourite audio books (though she does have something of an obsession over Stephen Fry). She wasn't interested in reading Harry Potter, but once she heard that Stephen Fry was voicing the audio books... all on the ipod.
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Post by bluephoenix on Apr 5, 2008 23:45:11 GMT -5
haha.
I personally don't like to hear audio books. It's the whole visualization thing, plus I tedn to wander, I can't focus on someone talking that long.
My mom read the first four Harry Potter books to me and my sister though. That was good fun, cuz I was younger, they were the last things she read to us, actually.
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Post by Maliris on Apr 6, 2008 10:59:27 GMT -5
Oh, I have nothing against audio books. Even though my mind tends to wander, too. XD But I will always fondly remember the awesome audio book of Michael Ende´s "Der Wunschpunsch" ("Night of Wishes"). Which was read by Ende himself and he did such a great job... It´s so funny and awesome. XD
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