Aphorism of the Day: Actually reading stuff is, like, hard and, like, so twentieth-century.
Roger here, just popping in.
Since Scott’s no good at pimping himself, I’ll do it for him: Audiobooks of The Prince of Nothing have been released by Audible.com!
Interestingly, the books are read by the brother of an old philosophy professor of mine. Small world!
(Thanks to Wilshire for the pointer!)
Excellent! I just got a bunch of audible credit as part of my anniversary gift! I know what I’ll be using it on! Thanks Roger!
Come on, Scott, you’ve got to tell us these things!
I am a little old and a little old fashioned. I still read with my eyes. These days reading is done with the ears, not the eyes. I am glad that The prince of Nothing will reach more people through audio books.
As my glasses keep getting thicker every year, audio book might be my only chance to finish the series.
It’s funny, these days I spend so much time commuting to and from work (more than an hour and a half each day) that I will look for books on audible first, then kindle, and then paper. Though with my favorite authors (such as Mr. Bakker here) I will always buy a hardback copy even if I get it in other forms as well.
To think that before the age of glasses scholars depended on their students!
The dents keep getting deeper on my nose too. Apparently one of the biggest selling features of e-readers is the ability to control the font size, so that’s another possibility. But I always feel recommending them is tantamount to recommending the Deluge…
I love audiobooks, but wow the sample on amazon shows the reader to be an extremely loud breather, I’ve never heard so many breaths on an audio book before. Sooooo many inhalations, incredibly distracting.
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Wait…
Droo sahs Ahh Kah Mee En?
Fuck me even with diacritical marks I can’t pronounce anything properly in my head.
Don’t assume that the reader has any special knowledge about how names are supposed to be pronounced. Listen to authors read and you’ll find substantially different pronunciations than you hear in their audiobook readers. Generally I think the readers just read the names as they themselves would pronounce the names. I agree though, that this particular reader seems to be more of a straight “reader” as opposed to a “performer.” All else being equal I prefer performers, but given how Scott seems to feel about the effect of different book readers imparting different meanings to a text, maybe that’s for the best?
Adam
That was funny. Have you ever listened to the wheel of time series? Try this link http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B0036NHZ10&qid=1340975647&sr=1-1 and listen to the sample. Myself and 3 co-workers discuss books often and we all read with our ears, from time to time. The narrator for the wheel of time is often imitated for our amusement.
Old Guy
Oof. I actually recorded everything in the encyclopedia for them, not so much because I was concerned about them getting the pronunciations right, as I wanted them to consistent across the series. A different company is doing AE.
Wow, I think that is awesome. You now have at least one reader that will also listen to the books. I appreciate the effort on your end.
See if you can hijack the wordpress panel some more, Roger, and put a link to the audio books under the ‘My books’ side panel as well.
Are there still plans for William Shatner to read Four Revelations, given his Rocketman performance?:
Haha YES! I got mentioned in a post. That’s rather hilarious and extremely satisfying. Glad I could be a part of something useful for this site, and of course for Bakker.