Audiobook finished
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johnridleyAt the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Public domain audiobook by Librivox
Edgar should stick to Mars. I can buy someone being magically teleported to Mars before I can buy gravity flipping around at midpoint through a hollow shell world, and explanations that gravity is "slightly less" on the inside of the sphere. I don't think Edgar took a lot of calculus in school. I can suspend disbelief as far as magic, or even to hyperspace, but not to trying to stretch Newtonian physics that far.
An OK story, and relatively short, but I think he was just warming up for Barsoom which he wrote a few years later. I *might* give Pellucidar a listen, since the two together might make a decent book.
The Librivox recording was OK. No glaring mispronunciations, and a fairly straight reading (not acted, not much emotion - I'm OK with that, FWIW, I can insert my own, same as when I'm reading from print).
Public domain audiobook by Librivox
Edgar should stick to Mars. I can buy someone being magically teleported to Mars before I can buy gravity flipping around at midpoint through a hollow shell world, and explanations that gravity is "slightly less" on the inside of the sphere. I don't think Edgar took a lot of calculus in school. I can suspend disbelief as far as magic, or even to hyperspace, but not to trying to stretch Newtonian physics that far.
An OK story, and relatively short, but I think he was just warming up for Barsoom which he wrote a few years later. I *might* give Pellucidar a listen, since the two together might make a decent book.
The Librivox recording was OK. No glaring mispronunciations, and a fairly straight reading (not acted, not much emotion - I'm OK with that, FWIW, I can insert my own, same as when I'm reading from print).
