[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
- From: Natalia Sulca <youngbeautyqueen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:51:42 -0400
I absolutely agree. I just ordered a bunch of Jude
Deveraux books whom I love, and nearly all of them are read by her! I guess
I'll chipmunk! Ugg! Sometimes when I want to read a book, just by looking at
the narrator’s name I reframe from ordering it. I think that it’s not right
that if they own those masters they make rerecordings.
Nati
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> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: NLS Narrators (was: Re: Re: comments on
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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:35:29 -0700
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> I feel like that about Mitzi Freedlander's voice. Very bad! I would either
> speed the books up and chip munk them to get through them faster, or just
> read them another way and thankfully for me, she hasn't read anything
> they've sent me in quite a while.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann Parsons"
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>
>> 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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