COMPLETE--Princess of Mars - by Edgar Rice Burroughs - AF/kr

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » December 27th, 2005, 3:54 pm

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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1917

Easy, swank, pulp reads about an omnipotent gentleman teleportet to mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on legs, strange bastions and curious apparatuses, where the strongest survives and women are needy beauties to be saved. With the language of that time that i love so much. How can something be so platitudeus and at the same time so imaginative and enthraling? Boys book for sure.

Target completion date: elusive

Gutenberg e-text
html-zip: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/pmars13h.zip
text: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext93/pmars13.txt
html in chapters: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/pmars-table.html

Division into parts
00 -- Foreword 0 -- stephan
01 -- Chapter 01 -- peter On the Arizona Hills
02 -- Chapter 02 -- chicobangs The Escape of the Dead
03 -- Chapter 03 -- shartzog My Advent on Mars
04 -- Chapter 04 -- shartzog A Prisoner
05 -- Chapter 05 -- Kymmz I Elude My Watch Dog
06 -- Chapter 06 -- chanse A Fight That Won Friends
07 -- Chapter 07 -- kara Child-Raising on Mars
08 -- Chapter 08 -- chicobangs A Fair Captive from the Sky
09 -- Chapter 09 -- chicobangs I Learn the Language
10 -- Chapter 10 -- chicobangs Champion and Chief
11 -- Chapter 11 -- chanse With Dejah Thoris
12 -- Chapter 12 -- chanse A Prisoner with Power
13 -- Chapter 13 -- stephan Love-Making on Mars
14 -- Chapter 14 -- chanse A Duel to the Death
15 -- Chapter 15 -- chanse Sola Tells Me Her Story
16 -- Chapter 16 -- chanse We Plan Escape
17 -- Chapter 17 -- chanse A Costly Recapture
18 -- Chapter 18 -- chanse Chained in Warhoon
19 -- Chapter 19 -- vee Battling in the Arena
20 -- Chapter 20 -- Biotron2000 In the Atmosphere Factory
21 -- Chapter 21 -- chanse An Air Scout for Zodanga
22 -- Chapter 22 -- sherry I Find Dejah
23 -- Chapter 23 -- stephan Lost in the Sky
24 -- Chapter 24 -- chanse Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend
25 -- Chapter 25 -- chanse The Looting of Zodanga
26 -- Chapter 26 -- chanse Through Carnage to Joy
27 -- Chapter 27 -- Kymmz From Joy to Death
28 -- Chapter 28 -- stephan At the Arizona Cave

Save files as
128 kpbs MP3, 44100kHz (MUST! we�ve had problems otherwise)
princess_of_mars_#_burroughs.mp3 , all lower-case, where # is your part (!) number.

ID3 V2 tags (please mind upper and lower case)
Track Number: #
Title: A Princess of Mars - Chapter [X]
Artist: E. R. Burroughs
Album: A Princess of Mars
Year: 2006
Comment: (If you want) Recorded by [your name]

Transfer of files
Files can either be posted here in the forum (link to your webspace) or emailed to my unlimited email-account: moebius AT anymotion DOT de

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- your webpage url (if applicable)

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INTRO

"This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox.org"
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say:
"A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Chapter [chapter number]"

END OF RECORDING

At the end of the chapter, say:
"End of chapter [Chapter number]"
At the end of the book, say:
"End of �A Princess of Mars�"

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » December 27th, 2005, 4:07 pm

Stephan,
Can I do Chapter One (part 01), please?

Post by **kayray** » December 27th, 2005, 4:11 pm

Oh, what fun! 07 for me please, "child raising on mars." I can hardly wait to find out about Martian child-rearing philosophy!

Kara

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » December 27th, 2005, 4:12 pm

YOU TWO!

Thanks for joining!

Oh, the childraisng? Think of the Spartan childraising. Many die.

Gesine · Post by **Gesine** » December 27th, 2005, 5:07 pm

Stephan, your two projects sound delightful and I shall certainly claim something, as soon as I've recorded my other 5 or 6 outstanding things! :) I've never read any of this stuff - barely even heard of it, so it will be even more interesting.

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » December 27th, 2005, 5:27 pm

Burroughs is trivial but fun (if you?re not a fem-bot).
War of the Worlds is just great and has more to it than you?d suppose. Science Fiction started off at that time and War of the Worlds is just another very typical title - there were douzens of other mars and invasion titles around it?s time. But Wells? book is especially beautifull.

shartzog · Post by **shartzog** » December 27th, 2005, 5:33 pm

I love the Barsoom series... and was excited to see this in Next Books. I would like to volunteer for Chapters 3, 4 & 5. I also agree that they should be done chronologically.

I've got Audacity and LAME on standby. Once you count me in I'll begin recording.

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » December 27th, 2005, 5:58 pm

GO GO GO, shartzog!

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » December 27th, 2005, 7:32 pm

There you go: Chapter One

(English accent, I'm afraid ... where are these southern US gentleman readers?)

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HBO91ROHBJU13VQTL9XTXOUXZ

shartzog · Post by **shartzog** » December 27th, 2005, 7:42 pm

Chapter III: http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VLOT41NGH6HE2FBO7HXTN3HFZ

A Princess of Mars - Chapter III. As this is my FIRST recording, please provide feedback on quality and consistency. If a southern accent is prefered I can do that (I grew up in Alabama).

The title seemed to be beyond the limit of ID3v1 (30), so I shortcutted the title a bit (the same as the filename.

Steve Hartzog (shartzog AT gmail DOT com)
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/shartzog/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shartzog/

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » December 27th, 2005, 7:57 pm

Thank you both.

Shartzog, no big deal for me, but please stick to the naming convention of the book-managers. There is a certain workflow and some conventions, even here.
Perfect recording and wonderfully read - come on! - you?ve done this before!

(The nitpicker in me want to give you the tip: a camilla or peppermint tea helps against mouse-noise. But they are very mild in your recording and neglectable. Do you have a cold? Your nose seems to be closed. Sprays open it, but this is also a neglectable nitpicker thing. It sounds awesome.)

You said, you can do an accent? Don?t hold it back if its comfy for you. Especially if you think it fits to the character. Anyway its interesting to hear accents and is charming. I personally would always prefer an accent over an oxford english, wheter it fits the story or not. So i?d rather hear your accent in any case.

Peter, i got nothing to add atm. You know the drill.

chicobangs · Post by **chicobangs** » December 27th, 2005, 11:05 pm

Has anyone signed on for Chapter Two yet?

I'm getting brave (after recording a poem), and I'd like to try something I'm a little less familiar with. I don't mind doing single chapters (02, 06), though something like 8-10 would be great.

I'll dry-run Chapter Two tonight; it's short and no trouble. Let me know what else you need. I'm game.

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » December 27th, 2005, 11:26 pm

Hi Chicobangs. Nice that you throw yourself right in. Let me know which chapters you definatly want to read. Seldom that chapters are allocated by the manager i think - you choose.

chicobangs · Post by **chicobangs** » December 28th, 2005, 12:07 am

Okay. Great!

Well, I just finished Chapter 2 (I'm just mastering & encoding it now), and I'd like to take a shot at Chapters 8, 9 and 10. See how that goes.

EDIT: Here's Chapter 2. Let me know if there are any formatting or other issues with it.

chanse · Post by **chanse** » December 28th, 2005, 3:51 am

I would be happy to try for Chapter 6. Do you still need a reader for it?