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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.I get that declinism is always there and we’re capable of getting misty eyed about the past. And even the Greeks moaned about things...
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.Well, it will be if numbers of those choosing to study Literature beyond the age of 15 continue to decline as is very much the current...
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.I think the triumph of STEM propaganda cannot be overlooked- along with increases in uni costs (fees and loans etc) The irony being that...
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.Cheers I didn’t really want a job anyway.
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Y’know, I wanted to mention the experience of listening and reading that text as being almost hallucinogenic, but I didn’t want to sound...
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jenks replied to the thread The Waste Land (1922).I prefer Irons' reading of it to Eliot's https://jeremyirons.net/2012/03/28/jeremy-irons-reads-ts-eliots-the-waste-land-bbc-radio-4/
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.I think as a kind of follow up question is what happens to writing if most of it is no longer consumed off the page. I'm thinking about...
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Way back “in the day” I taught myself to read absorb Shakespeare by going to the library and reading the text while listening to the...
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jenks reacted to shakahislop's post in the thread has anyone ever written a good phone novel with
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.I don’t really like that rather theatrical English voice. The audiobook I heard had an Irish actor. I think, whilst being so obvious to...
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Pinter reading from The Unnamable comes to mind. Not sure how much I like it, but he really brings out an escalating panic from the text.
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.Thanks @sus and @version i asked because I’m not sure and do vacillate between those two poles. When an audiobook is at its best I do...
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Yes, sure, but any two things can be lumped together or split apart depending on why you're lumping and splitting them. Obnoxious people...
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I prefer this too, but traveling's made it impossible; Project Gutenberg's been quite good to me—while listening, I'll jot down a few...