Comments on: Listening to Mark Twain while sorting the slates http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/ none the wiser Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:01:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: mandarine http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-9019 mandarine Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:53:53 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-9019 I will go check whether there is a Librivox version of your Twain recommendation. Otherwise, I will have to read it, but no slates get sorted. I will go check whether there is a Librivox version of your Twain recommendation. Otherwise, I will have to read it, but no slates get sorted.

]]> By: Deborah http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-9016 Deborah Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:06:56 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-9016 Thank you for this! I had to laugh out loud at your quotes---vintage Twain. I especially chuckled over the one about Eve, repentance, and watermelon. May I recommend A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for your next Twain experience? A lovely and various site. I'll be back...for both the bookishness and the garden talk. Thank you for this! I had to laugh out loud at your quotes—vintage Twain. I especially chuckled over the one about Eve, repentance, and watermelon.

May I recommend A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court for your next Twain experience?

A lovely and various site. I’ll be back…for both the bookishness and the garden talk.

]]> By: mandarine http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-8978 mandarine Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:13:06 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-8978 Nope. My reader was a Michael Yard. Nope. My reader was a Michael Yard.

]]> By: Emily Barton http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-8977 Emily Barton Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:29:04 +0000 http://www.wisemandarine.com/listening-to-mark-twain-while-sorting-the-slates/#comment-8977 Slate-stacking sounds even better than dish-doing and laundry-folding as far as good audiobook activities are concerned. Isn't it great we live in an era in which mind-numbing activities can be wonderful excuses for reading a novel? I'm wondering (as I haven't yet looked it up), if Dennis Sayers happened to be the reader of Pudd'nhead Wilson, as that's who read Librivox's Robinson Crusoe, which I recently listened to, and I could say exactly the same thing about monotone delivery (needless to say, there is not much dialogue in Robinson Crusoe, so I didn't get to experience the change). I credited the story itself, which I loved and found fascinating, with keeping me going, but you may be on to something with your theory of monotone reading being close to the written word, up to the listener's own interpretation. BTW, I LOVED Pudd'nhead Wilson when I read it in college, but don't remember too much about it. However, I adore Mark Twain. Period. Slate-stacking sounds even better than dish-doing and laundry-folding as far as good audiobook activities are concerned. Isn’t it great we live in an era in which mind-numbing activities can be wonderful excuses for reading a novel? I’m wondering (as I haven’t yet looked it up), if Dennis Sayers happened to be the reader of Pudd’nhead Wilson, as that’s who read Librivox’s Robinson Crusoe, which I recently listened to, and I could say exactly the same thing about monotone delivery (needless to say, there is not much dialogue in Robinson Crusoe, so I didn’t get to experience the change). I credited the story itself, which I loved and found fascinating, with keeping me going, but you may be on to something with your theory of monotone reading being close to the written word, up to the listener’s own interpretation. BTW, I LOVED Pudd’nhead Wilson when I read it in college, but don’t remember too much about it. However, I adore Mark Twain. Period.

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