[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .)
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:38:33 -0700
Yeah, I as well, like Scourby Actually I think he read the Old King
James Version of the Bible. Just google it, you'll see it.
On 3/12/08, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ann I agree with everything you said.
>
> The problem is (as it often is) we have sighted people making decisions for
> blind people, and they may not make much sense. Why hire someone else to
> re-read a book that has already been recorded by an irreplaceable reader?
> Makes no sense.
>
> Huff huff, now you've made me mad!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:25 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on
> Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .)
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > Original message:
> >> I hate to bring up the thought, but if they were in
> >> old-time radio shows, it my be that Father Time had
> >> gotten rid of them, not NLS. smile
> >
> >
> > Actually, G. Cindy, one of the griefs which we who are old enough to
> > remember is the loss of so many of these books that were recorded for the
> > blind. We find it interesting, and indeed troubling, that one can collect
> > all the OTR programs one would ever want to collect and yet, only a few of
> > the old master recordings are available for duplication today. LOC claims
> > lack of funding, and perhaps they are right. Some of us, indeed one
> > person I know of in California has personally offered to reclaim these old
> > master recordings, but to my knowledge, he has not been given the time of
> > day by the powers that be at Library of Congress.
> >
> > Oh, G. Cindy, when you can listen to The Shadow and Amos and Andy at any
> > darn time you want, and yet, the complete set of Charles Dickens read by
> > Alan Haines is thrown on the garbage heap because it is too costly to
> > reclaim it, this makes me actually weep in frustration! Alan Haines, a
> > radio personality and actor from New York City was Welsh. He could do
> > *all* the regional accents of England, all of them, G. Cindy. His reading
> > of How Green Was My Valley is a treasure, and if I find it *anywhere* at
> > all, I want it, I want it so bad I can taste it! All those singing welsh
> > voices with their wonderful accents. A treasure, a real treasure lost
> > because some stupid sighted bureaucrat decided it wasn't worth keeping! I
> > have here, my own personal recording of Haines reading The Dean's watch.
> > I treasure it! I have Scourby reading Watership Down.
> >
> > NLS has seen fit to have The Robe, remember my mentioning it? They have
> > seen fit to have some little bimbo with a tiny squeaky voice reading this
> > book! It is *not* right! They miscast this reading! I am sure that this
> > lady, whomever she is, is not a bimbo, but she sounds like one. Her voice
> > is high and it is tiny and it is squeaky. Dale Carter might have done a
> > good job with The Robe, but not this bimbo! I can just hear her giggling
> > in the background. I had to send the book back to the library. I
> > couldn't read it, just couldn't! Her reading is awful, just terrible, and
> > they threw out the Blackwell or Donally reading that made that book
> > *live*! Oh, it's not a trivial complaint, not a trivial complaint at all!
> >
> > I better stop now, or I'll fill up my whole computer with this rant.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
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> > Ann K. Parsons
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> > http://www.portaltutoring.info
> > "All that is gold does not glitter,
> > Not all those who wander are lost."
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