Audiobook finished
Oct. 27th, 2008 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyThe Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Well, THAT was subtle. I wonder if Edgar was trying to say something.
Librivox recording. The few Librivox recordings I've listened to before have been really pretty good. This one was pretty bad. The reader consistently mispronounced many words (the word "excape" appears in this book, I'd guess, about a billion times) and randomly mispronounced a bunch more. Also he stumbled through it a bit. I think to read a book effectively you really need to read it twice, once for practice and once for real, I'd think a chapter at a time at most. It seemed to me that he pretty clearly just picked up the book and started reading. His phrasing was really bad in places, stopping to take a breath at the end of a line instead of bridging the phrase.
Still, it was listenable enough. But if they take readings like that, heck, maybe *I* should do some readings for them.
Well, THAT was subtle. I wonder if Edgar was trying to say something.
Librivox recording. The few Librivox recordings I've listened to before have been really pretty good. This one was pretty bad. The reader consistently mispronounced many words (the word "excape" appears in this book, I'd guess, about a billion times) and randomly mispronounced a bunch more. Also he stumbled through it a bit. I think to read a book effectively you really need to read it twice, once for practice and once for real, I'd think a chapter at a time at most. It seemed to me that he pretty clearly just picked up the book and started reading. His phrasing was really bad in places, stopping to take a breath at the end of a line instead of bridging the phrase.
Still, it was listenable enough. But if they take readings like that, heck, maybe *I* should do some readings for them.
