audeo nuklear age

[chickenavenger]

not that im sayin im too lazy to read it, and i need someone to read it to me, i was just thinkin it would be really cool if Brian did an audeo recording of his book. it be soo kool if he did his own recording and sold that. but thats just my opinion.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

No, no, no do *ALL* the voices!

Sky Warrior Bob
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[Toastburner B]

At first...it's seems like kind of a silly idea.

Then...you realize you would buy it.

Admit it, you would.

[LordZoma]

Brian! This is the bestest idea ever! You have to do all the voices of course... and all the cool sound effects too! I can't wait, because I'm illiterate and can't read... and yet I want ever so badly to read nuklear age. Yaaaaaay.

Audio books. Feh.

[AndyBloodredMage]

Okay it is over 500 pages (maybe 1000+, I cannot remember.) Do you have any idea how many hours to would take to listen to that, let alone record it? It is a book meant to be read, not listened to, if for size restrictions alone.

[Kurosen]

As I discovered during the reading of Nuklear Age at Ubercon, there's a fair number of jokes that only work because you read them.

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Still, there are quite a few literary devices in, say, Harry Potter (just as an example) that only work when you read them, but that doesn't keep the audio tapes of them from selling like crack.

[Meister]

That's likely because it's Harry Potter more than anything else.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Actually, I've listened to the Harry Potter audio books, and of audio books I've heard, they're fairly good. The Narrator (Jim Dale?) does a fair good job of doing the voices, to the extent that it sounds like a fair cast of characters.

In fact, the only audio book that I've heard that can even compare is of the Red Dwarf novels, read by Chris Barrie. Even the JRR Tolkien audiobooks don't compare.

So say what you will of Harry Potter, but I will tip my hat to its Voice Actor. Trust me, there's some brilliant audio book chops there.

Sky Warrior Bob
- And if Brian feels like producing a cheap-ass audio book, he could always just use a text-to-audio program. He'd save money on a narrator & he could just use the original computer document files. Admittedly, this won't correct spelling mistakes, and pronouciation could be murder, but it'd at least be cheap to produce.

[LordZoma]

he could always just use a text-to-audio program. He'd save money on a narrator & you can just use your original computer document files. Admittedly, this won't correct spelling mistakes, and pronouciation could be murder, but it'd at least be cheap to produce.

HAHAHHAHahahahhahhaha hAHhha hahahahaha. OHhhh man... could you imagine? The voices say, for a Macintosh reading an entire book on audio. Which would you choose, the one that sounds like Bubbles, or the one that sings a scary song as it pronounces badly? It would be a mixture of nightmarish horror and laughable nonsense. Now that would be a sight.

[Joseph Pandora]

I to have heard the audio book form of Harry Potter. It's good.

But I say the best audio book reader is Douglas Adams reading his books.

[AndyBloodredMage]

Did he record Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

[Joseph Pandora]

Yes, yes he did.

Had it on my iPod for awhile.

[AndyBloodredMage]

That probably took a couple of months to listen to.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

I to have heard the audio book form of Harry Potter. It's good.

But I say the best audio book reader is Douglas Adams reading his books.

I'm sorry, but you're kidding me, right? Hearing DA read his stuff is good, but it isn't that good. Maybe he did a different version, but the New Millennium Audio CDs I'm listened too are feh, at best. His character impersonations, save for Martin, all seem a tad too similar.

And for interested parties, each book takes up about 5 or so CDs, depending on the novel.

Sky Warrior Bob

[Drooling Iguana]

To me, Peter Jones will always be the voice of the Guide.

[AndyBloodredMage]

Enlighten me, why do you think this?

[Crazy Ivan]

I think what would be a cooler project, if Brian in fact wanted to put these together into an audio format, would be to have fans record the dialogoue for the different characters. That way it actually *is* an entire cast, rather than one person trying to become an entire cast. Of course, it'd be difficult to arrange, but through the wonders of the internet, I have a feeling it could happen.