Re: [NTLK] More spurious rumors or ?

From: Robert Dylan Stewart <bob_zimmerman_at_myrealbox.com>
Date: Thu Sep 27 2007 - 01:28:33 EDT

To Ed, I most definitely *do* have audiobooks on my iPhone.

Relating more to my quoted post, though, I've got several of the
BBC's Doctor Who audiobooks as well as a few of the Big Finish audio
adventures. The BBC audiobooks are actually read by actors from the
current show (including quite a few by the Doctor himself), and the
audio adventures are full-on audio plays with members of the original
cast such as Nyssa, Turlough, Mel, Ace, Peri, and four of the Doctors
(Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann). In
fact, Paul McGann did the vast majority of his work as the Doctor in
these audio plays. He's got a great voice.

Yes, I'm a huge geek.

--
  Robert D. Stewart	AC5ZH
On Sep 26, 2007, at 20:20, PaulMmn wrote:
> At 6:57 PM -0600 9/26/07, Scott Rogers wrote:
>> I've never understood audiobooks.  I just can't do them.
>
> You need to listen to some -good- ones.  They're like someone reading
> you a bedtime story, or listening to a radio play.  Of course, it
> you're interested in the story to start with it helps.  It also helps
> if the reader is not just reading, but is a voice actor as well.
>
> I can recommend the full set of Harry Potter books on CD-- Jim Dale
> is the voice artist, and he has created voices for all of the
> characters.  It's like he was 40 or 50 different people telling the
> tale!
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com
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