Topic: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT (Read 5599 times)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #31 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:00:39 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:02:20 AM »

Well. We have here a Saturday that actually feels like a Saturday.

A profound observation, I know. One which you all will no doubt be ruminating on for the rest of the day.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:06:25 AM »

Sometime soon (because they close at noon) I need to throw some clothes on and drive down to the power equipment store for a couple of air filters for the weed whacker.

Exciting, eh?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #34 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:13:37 AM »

Saturday! It is a lovely day here weatherwise.....

I shall be working on a few lines and preparing my report for the board meeting tomorrow.

Yesterday I made some chicken & noodles so there is plenty to eat!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #35 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:13:53 AM »

I do not listen to audio books and do not own any.

The End.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #36 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:31:20 AM »

TOD

For many years I paid no attention to audio books. It took listening to a couple on road trips to completely sell me on them. I really haven't heard all that many, but a few fiction titles that immediately became favorites for both the material and the quality of the reading would include:

Kerouac: On the Road, read by Matt Damon
Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, read by the author
Stephen King: The Langoliers, ready by Willem Dafoe
Dean Koontz: One Door Away From Heaven, read by Anne Twomey

There have been a few other King and Koontz ones as well, because they're so great for longer road trips. I also love radio plays, both the old traditional ones and more contemporary ones such as the original Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Anyhoo, there's much more, but those came to mind. And I have yet to really listen to audio books at home. For me they've been best for travel. But that could easily change.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:47:03 AM »

I have never listened to an audiobook, but I love to listen to plays.

Ginny · « **Reply #38 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:54:54 AM »

Saturday morning greetings! We caved and turned on our air conditioning today, because it's going to be hot and muggy. What happened to spring?

Ginny · « **Reply #39 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:56:08 AM »

YIKES, DR Vixmom, that's a truly terrifying tale! I'm so glad you're OK

Ginny · « **Reply #40 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:00:13 AM »

TOD - I love audiobooks, with the right narrator. I used to listen on my 25-mile, each way, commute to work and, in retirement, listen while knitting and crafting. They're good while exercising, too, but I don't do that very often.

The best of the best, IMHO, is Jim Dale doing the Harry Potter books.

Some of my other favorite narrators are Kate Reading, Grace Conlin, C. J. Critt, and Orlagh Cassidy. Sometimes I'll listen to a book based solely on the voice.

Jane · « **Reply #41 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:10:45 AM »

DR TCB super vibes you have a covered parking space. I know you really need one. Your realtor should sort this out.

Jane · « **Reply #42 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:12:02 AM »

DR Jeanne did you meet Bruce in 1965?

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:33:11 AM »

Don't know when I'll leave for Houston. A tornado hit San Angelo near Bonnie's house, so she's dealing with a power outage and downed branches.

John G. · « **Reply #44 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:40:45 AM »

TOD:

I'm addicted to audiobooks. I have been since I had a 75-minute commute each way in Florida. It's a great way to get to those books that I just haven't found the time to read. I started with the Travis McGee novels from John D. MacDonald, then graduated to Wodehouse and classics and new fiction and just about anything. But it must be unabridged.

When I was working on the barbecue book, I liked to listen to books about Texas, including Elmer Kelton's westerns, alternately with food books. They helped make an 8-hour drive go by better.

bk · « **Reply #45 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:50:42 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - five-and-a-half hours of sleep.

John G. · « **Reply #46 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:51:58 AM »

The best narrators are those who understand how to tell a story as much as the writer does.

Recently, I listened to Brid Brennan bring life to Anna Burns' complicated Irish novel, Milkman, in a way that made the book easy to love. It was one of the most powerful books I've listened to in ages.

I agree with Ginny that Jim Dale is a master with the Harry Potter books.

George Guidell's work on I Know This Much Is True is phenomenal, as is Frank Muller on The Prince of Tides. Muller was also great on Stephen King's books, which are often better listened to than read.

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:55:25 AM »

There are some readers I can't listen to. Patrick Tull, who narrated the Master and Commander series and the Cadfael books, has too thick a British accent and it becomes more about hearing him than the story.

John G. · « **Reply #48 on:** May 18, 2019, 09:02:15 AM »

Watching a nifty B movie called When Strangers Marry/Betrayed with a very young Robert Mitchum and an evil Dean Jagger. Kim Hunter is not my favorite performer, but she's perky if a little too stupid for her own good. William Castle directs without gimmicks. Great Dimitri Tiomkin score.

Jane · « **Reply #49 on:** May 18, 2019, 10:08:57 AM »

Quote from: John G. on May 18, 2019, 08:33:11 AM

Don't know when I'll leave for Houston. A tornado hit San Angelo near Bonnie's house, so she's dealing with a power outage and downed branches.

Oh no!

Druxy · « **Reply #50 on:** May 18, 2019, 10:10:37 AM »

Quote from: John G. on May 18, 2019, 09:02:15 AM

Watching a nifty B movie called When Strangers Marry/Betrayed with a very young Robert Mitchum and an evil Dean Jagger. Kim Hunter is not my favorite performer, but she's perky if a little too stupid for her own good. William Castle directs without gimmicks. Great Dimitri Tiomkin score.

As I recall, Dean Jagger actually has hair in that one, doesn't he?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #51 on:** May 18, 2019, 10:39:42 AM »

And today another certified letter from my landlord's attorney arrived with a copy of the eviction petition that was taped to my door last Wednesday. I'm ready to sue for harassment.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #52 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:08:31 AM »

Harassment and incompetence.

But when was it posted?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:09:50 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 07:47:03 AM

I have never listened to an audiobook, but I love to listen to plays.

Yes!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #54 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:13:27 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 11:08:31 AM

Harassment and incompetence.

But when was it posted?

Wednesday, same day it was taped to my door.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #55 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:19:08 AM »

Yes, the reader is all-important. I especially like it, too, when the reader has had some connection with the author or the work. There’s a nice one of Sissy Spacek reading CARRIE, in which she does one stupid thing. She talks like a robot when reading a newspaper clip or a police bulletin or some such. Silly and amateurish. But it’s otherwise fine.

And yes to unabridged works. I do allow one exception to that, something that serves a specific purpose for me. (Ahem.) [whispers:] Proust.

vixmom · « **Reply #56 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:39:47 AM »

I used t listen to audio books all thetime when I had my 60 mile round trip commute .

I don't listen as often but at the moment I am in the middle of Stephen Kings Pet Semetary narrated by Michael C. Hall.

MCH has the qualities that make a perfect narrator, good pace, using different voices for the characters, to the point that I keep forgetting it's all him.

vixmom · « **Reply #57 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:41:27 AM »

Another reader I loved is a British woman, Donata Peters , I listened to all the Colleen McCullough Ancient Rome series as read by her, she is wonderful

vixmom · « **Reply #58 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:42:18 AM »

We always listen to audio books or radio plays on our drives to Florida

ChasSmith · « **Reply #59 on:** May 18, 2019, 11:50:24 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on May 18, 2019, 11:42:18 AM

We always listen to audio books or radio plays on our drives to Florida

As do we. Not that any of us has done that trip in a while, but it became an essential element of every such road trip starting with a Florida one in 2005. Wouldn’t be without it now.

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