tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post4298367603404340704..comments2024-03-19T06:25:24.862-05:00Comments on Althouse: "hate audio books where women speak man's part."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35962951617819173362013-09-17T15:48:31.957-05:002013-09-17T15:48:31.957-05:00Are there any audio books with women reading women...Are there any audio books with women reading women characters and men reading male characters? I recently bought a book where its a man reading the book and he reads for the women characters and I find it very annoying and hard to listen to this man pretending to be a woman. I want to hear a woman's voice or the female characters. It could be the same women who reads all of the female characters but with different accents and inflections but I want to hear a real woman's voice. Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18027616735045335949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43745312653572717852013-09-17T15:44:52.764-05:002013-09-17T15:44:52.764-05:00Are there any audio books with women reading women...Are there any audio books with women reading women characters and men reading male characters? I recently bought a book where its a man reading the book and he reads for the women characters and I find it very annoying and hard to listen to this man pretending to be a woman. I want to hear a woman's voice or the female characters. It could be the same women who reads all of the female characters but with different accents and inflections but I want to hear a real woman's voice. Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18027616735045335949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21784040023886760742010-01-07T13:04:26.441-06:002010-01-07T13:04:26.441-06:00I agree. I like multiple voices in my audio books...I agree. I like multiple voices in my audio books. I know there is one site that offers these types of audio book presentations. They are free at newfiction.com .tomlopyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17240251383917174189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11855208689914930502009-12-29T21:08:35.325-06:002009-12-29T21:08:35.325-06:00Hmmm. I'm not sure why you would bother with a...Hmmm. I'm not sure why you would bother with audio-books then.Cut Ithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00939147642711361916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33867822934995972242009-12-29T19:51:01.102-06:002009-12-29T19:51:01.102-06:00Listened to my daughter listening to an audio book...Listened to my daughter listening to an audio book in the chick-lit vein this weekend. I had all I could do to keep from shrieking with laughter when the female "performing" the book did not only macho men in a low, monotone tone of voice, but then attempted to do a "love scene" in a dramatic, but <i>not</i> pornographic manner, and succeeded only in making really hot sex sound utterly banal and boring. Why bother?Omnibabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05123362753225618655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17950150258244134582009-12-29T17:33:54.828-06:002009-12-29T17:33:54.828-06:00Maurice Chevalier does a great French accent in th...Maurice Chevalier does a great French accent in this Christmas Classic: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCypFQB534&feature=channel" rel="nofollow">Link</a>chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53028316561772799892009-12-29T17:22:11.330-06:002009-12-29T17:22:11.330-06:00David Sedaris Singing Billie Holiday doing commerc...<a href="http://www.nuansatour.com/david-sedaris-singing-billie-holiday.html" rel="nofollow">David Sedaris Singing Billie Holiday doing commercial jingles</a>.<br /><br />(fake background video)KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31106338875753976502009-12-29T17:02:54.539-06:002009-12-29T17:02:54.539-06:00In Marcel Marceau's reading of Mum's the W...In Marcel Marceau's reading of <i>Mum's the Word: The Shields and Yarnell Story</i>, he does a very credible Lorene Yarnell. <br /><br />Inaudibly brilliant.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30605664357371606052009-12-29T16:38:16.617-06:002009-12-29T16:38:16.617-06:00overrated, and pretty disappointing for an adolesc...<i>overrated, and pretty disappointing for an adolescent who's heard about the controversy</i><br /><br />That experience was <i>Portnoy's Complaint,</i> for me, at age 11. I dimly recall getting someone older to check it out for me at the library and being completely mystified. If Mad did a satire of it, I'm sure I enjoyed that much more.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12134338087115453342009-12-29T16:34:23.289-06:002009-12-29T16:34:23.289-06:00Well, Paul WINFIELD I have heard! I'd give him...Well, Paul WINFIELD I have heard! I'd give him a listen as a narrator, sure.<br /><br />Got football on the brain, huh? Me, too.<br /><br />Ignatius J. O'Reilly would say that Fortuna hath spun her wheel downward for the Saints and Vikings. Just a quarter turn, we hope.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15254583605360212152009-12-29T15:57:33.091-06:002009-12-29T15:57:33.091-06:00Just ran across this: letters in praise of Flo Gib...Just ran across this: <a href="http://www.audiobookcontractors.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=Letters" rel="nofollow">letters</a> in praise of Flo Gibson. I heartily agree with them all.Peanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10300220285833876977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14176186302132048352009-12-29T15:41:43.419-06:002009-12-29T15:41:43.419-06:00On one of David Sedaris' audio books, his sist...On one of David Sedaris' audio books, his sister Amy did the voice for their younger brother is some rambling old story about their family. It was absolutely perfect for the material.<br /><br />On the male doing female voices side of things, it seems like in every recording I have of the old Jeeves books, the narrator does a splendid job with the Aunts - Agatha and Dahlia - but most of them can't do younger women unless they're of the outspoken variety.gbartohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05992016559235916986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73743020686534212322009-12-29T15:29:30.048-06:002009-12-29T15:29:30.048-06:00Lady Chatterly's Lover is overrated, and prett...<i>Lady Chatterly's Lover</i> is overrated, and pretty disappointing for an adolescent who's heard about the controversy (ask me how I know this). It's either nonsense like Ann quoted or it sounds like <i>The Bobbsey Twins Have Sex</i>.Gabriel Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12356186353979140904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63688480582679982032009-12-29T15:15:42.826-06:002009-12-29T15:15:42.826-06:00Bad link. Paul Winfield's voice here.Bad link. Paul Winfield's voice <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8Cip9iMqQ" rel="nofollow">here.</a>Michael Hazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261384414481528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27421432766162796232009-12-29T15:13:38.714-06:002009-12-29T15:13:38.714-06:00Beth, I typed "Paul Warfield" (NFL Hall ...Beth, I typed "Paul Warfield" (NFL Hall of Famer) when I meant to type <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winfield" rel="nofollow">"Paul Winfield"</a><br /><br />Winfield was a brilliant actor. He also narrated the TV show City Confidential. You can hear his voice <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-M8T3N6Vw%22" rel="nofollow">here</a>Michael Hazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261384414481528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30965034734033030242009-12-29T13:32:03.435-06:002009-12-29T13:32:03.435-06:00Marcia, that's a good description of what I li...Marcia, that's a good description of what I like in a narrator. There are subtle shifts, but nothing over the top. Continuing with the parallel issue of dialects, subtle is best.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64543308641685815372009-12-29T13:23:09.811-06:002009-12-29T13:23:09.811-06:00Juliet Stephenson does a wonderful job reading Jan...Juliet Stephenson does a wonderful job reading Jane Austen's novels. She walks the perfect line of giving a different flavor to each character (including the men) without sounding like she's "doing voices."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11399211883185621350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80431202749016295372009-12-29T12:49:40.232-06:002009-12-29T12:49:40.232-06:00Michael, I am not familiar with Warfield's voi...Michael, I am not familiar with Warfield's voice, but if it's "drippingly Southern" it's not appropriate for New Orleans, particularly for <i>Confederacy of Dunces</i>. The central characters, Ignatius and his mother, are Uptown/Irish Channel denizens, and their accents would remind you more of Brooklynites, as would their friends Santa Battaglia and her nephew, the hapless cop, Patrolman Mancuso. <br /><br />Only a small part of the New Orleans population sounds Southern. It's a port city, with similar immigration patterns to New York, so the neighborhood dialects reflect the waves of Irish, Eastern European, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German arrivals, with the earlier French and English (American planters and industrialists who came post-Louisiana Purchase) populations as well.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59904755005230544312009-12-29T12:44:54.806-06:002009-12-29T12:44:54.806-06:00I listen to audiobooks all the time. The only tim...I listen to audiobooks all the time. The only time I have been annoyed at narration was with a Brit production of Byatt's <i>Possession</i> wherein they gave the guy from New Mexico a Savannah accent. <br /><br />I can't say that I listen to much sexually explicit material, however. I can see how that might make a difference.Christyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623422545436294378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5794484110007335662009-12-29T12:28:36.181-06:002009-12-29T12:28:36.181-06:00I really enjoyed when Jenna Jamison read her autob...I really enjoyed when Jenna Jamison read her autobiography.<br /><br />With a dick in her mouth.<br /><br />It lent verisimilitude.Matt Eckerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197805355101148923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79312734312989961882009-12-29T12:20:58.332-06:002009-12-29T12:20:58.332-06:00The late Paul Warfield had a wonderful voice, drip...The late Paul Warfield had a wonderful voice, drippingly southern. He narrated a TV show on TruTV, sorry I don't remember its name, about crime cases. <br /><br />His voice would be perfect for narrating any story set in the south, especially in New Orleans.Michael Hazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261384414481528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9058409756420873112009-12-29T12:05:22.721-06:002009-12-29T12:05:22.721-06:00I never read Lady Chatterly's Lover and based ...I never read Lady Chatterly's Lover and based on this paragraph I'd say that making it filthy would have been an improvement.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450897654318345683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63553275625701111472009-12-29T12:03:49.366-06:002009-12-29T12:03:49.366-06:00Rialby, I wouldn't want to hear that, either. ...Rialby, I wouldn't want to hear that, either. I doubt that narrator could do the dialects that make those characters distinctly New Orleans.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17993667229372927122009-12-29T11:59:17.212-06:002009-12-29T11:59:17.212-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10591800916770254272009-12-29T11:59:06.008-06:002009-12-29T11:59:06.008-06:00Michael, d'accord - on all of those.
I've...Michael, d'accord - on all of those.<br /><br />I've heard good readers of both sexes do fine with all characters. So long as I'm able to make that leap in the willful suspension of disbelief, I'm happy.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774002797359859550noreply@blogger.com