What a great piece. This guy is delightful! Such a perfect voice for Melville.
Not usually an audiobook guy myself but when I read Ulysses I read parts of it along with the RTE (irish public radio) full voice cast reading. He's right that hearing Joyce read aloud (esp. by Irish people) helps so much with comprehension and even in the most incomprehensible parts the music of the writing comes through.
So, I have an account at libro.fm, which supports my local bookstore etc etc. Etc. They have two White jacket audiobooks, neither of which is this recording. Are there some sort of non-compete clauses in audio book recordings? At any rate, another great post!
I appreciate your work on classics audiobooks in general. I struggle a lot with focusing on audiobooks and getting lost - some is the writing style but some is definitely narration too! This is a place where my discernment as a reader (listener?) has a lot of room to grow. I just started the Naxos version of The Decameron on your recommendation and so far I am enjoying it a lot.
Interesting. I confess I have mentally, if not dismissed, diminished Melville's earlier seagoing books, from Omoo to White-Jacket. I think The Confidence Man: His Masquerade is a true masterwork, one of the strangest novels of the 19th Century. And to my shame I haven't read Moby-Dick though I mean to get to it soon. But somehow I got the idea that the early novels were just sort of entertain sea stories, or even travelogues.
What a great piece. This guy is delightful! Such a perfect voice for Melville.
Not usually an audiobook guy myself but when I read Ulysses I read parts of it along with the RTE (irish public radio) full voice cast reading. He's right that hearing Joyce read aloud (esp. by Irish people) helps so much with comprehension and even in the most incomprehensible parts the music of the writing comes through.
So, I have an account at libro.fm, which supports my local bookstore etc etc. Etc. They have two White jacket audiobooks, neither of which is this recording. Are there some sort of non-compete clauses in audio book recordings? At any rate, another great post!
I appreciate your work on classics audiobooks in general. I struggle a lot with focusing on audiobooks and getting lost - some is the writing style but some is definitely narration too! This is a place where my discernment as a reader (listener?) has a lot of room to grow. I just started the Naxos version of The Decameron on your recommendation and so far I am enjoying it a lot.
Interesting. I confess I have mentally, if not dismissed, diminished Melville's earlier seagoing books, from Omoo to White-Jacket. I think The Confidence Man: His Masquerade is a true masterwork, one of the strangest novels of the 19th Century. And to my shame I haven't read Moby-Dick though I mean to get to it soon. But somehow I got the idea that the early novels were just sort of entertain sea stories, or even travelogues.