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- From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
- Subject: Re: Pern Audiobooks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.025528.18750@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.223310.7837@nwnexus.WA.COM> pyotr@halcyon.com (Pete
- D. Hampe) writes:
- >cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows) writes:
- >
- >
- >>I went to the local library today and checked out some Pern audio
- >>books. They are DRAGONSONG, DRAGONSINGER, and DRAGONDRUMS. They
- >>claim to be unabridged, and I can believe it--they total 22.25
- >>hours, overall. I have yet to listen to them, so I don't know
- >>how good they are. They are narrated by someone named "Sally
- >>Darling."
- >
- >>I can't say much for the covers. The cover of Dragonsong shows
- >>fire lizards as green, flying tyrannosaurus rexes (with HORNS, no
- >>less!), and the cover of Dragondrums shows Piemer clutching an egg
- >>that is almost as big as he is!
- >so skip the cover art - how are the recordings?
- >
- >Is this a simple 'unabridged' and no frills
- >read the book from cover to cover (my preference)
- >or do they doll it up with sound effects (barkola)?
- >
- >Inquiring minds want to know!
- >
- >chus
- >pyotr
- >
- >--
- >Pyotr aka Peter D. Hampe : eka pyotr@halcyon.com
- >Nothing says loving like a bun in the oven.
- >EOF
-
- No sound effects, no music, no NOTHING. Just the [boring] narrator
- reading from the book. I found it slightly disappointing...
-
- --
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