[COMPLETE] The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford - tg

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 22nd, 2021, 8:49 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 21st, 2021, 11:27 pm
Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 20th, 2021, 11:52 am PL of Section 4 is okay.
Thank you!

I have now uploaded section 05: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_05_ford_128kb.mp3 (39:24)

Section 5 is fine.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 23rd, 2021, 4:03 am

I have now uploaded:
Section 6: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_06_ford_128kb.mp3 (15:19)
Section 7: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_07_ford_128kb.mp3 (36:18)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 23rd, 2021, 10:42 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2021, 4:03 am I have now uploaded:
Section 6: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_06_ford_128kb.mp3 (15:19)
Section 7: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_07_ford_128kb.mp3 (36:18)

PL of section 6 is

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 24th, 2021, 1:09 am

Excellent, Susanne. Thank you!

I have now uploaded:
Section 08: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_08_ford_128kb.mp3 (8:59)
Section 09: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_09_ford_128kb.mp3 (35:44)

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 25th, 2021, 12:45 am

I have now uploaded section 10: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_10_ford_128kb.mp3 (20:09)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 25th, 2021, 9:33 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 24th, 2021, 1:09 am Excellent, Susanne. Thank you!

I have now uploaded:
Section 08: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_08_ford_128kb.mp3 (8:59)
Section 09: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_09_ford_128kb.mp3 (35:44)

These sections are okay.

You're such an amazing storyteller.

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 26th, 2021, 9:26 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 25th, 2021, 12:45 am I have now uploaded section 10: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_10_ford_128kb.mp3 (20:09)

The section is PL okay.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 26th, 2021, 4:48 pm

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 25th, 2021, 9:33 am
These sections are okay.

You're such an amazing storyteller.

You're very kind, Susanne. To be honest, I think a good deal of that effect comes down to Ford Madox Ford's brilliant mimicry of the manner of a rambling narrator, a bit of an old duffer, sitting at a fireplace pontificating and waffling on. It's a style, alas, that probably suits me as a reader aloud (though I do truly think some of the pontifications are very good). While reading this alound, I've also been reading to myself the first volume of FMF's "Parade's End" tetralogy, which is called "Some do not..." I think it's excellent, but it's strange and bizarre too, and could be rather more challenging to read aloud than this is, I suspect.

I have now uploaded:
Section 11: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_11_ford_128kb.mp3 (30:16)
Section 12: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_12_ford_128kb.mp3 (24:34)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 27th, 2021, 10:40 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 26th, 2021, 4:48 pm
Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 25th, 2021, 9:33 am
These sections are okay.

You're such an amazing storyteller.
You're very kind, Susanne. To be honest, I think a good deal of that effect comes down to Ford Madox Ford's brilliant mimicry of the manner of a rambling narrator, a bit of an old duffer, sitting at a fireplace pontificating and waffling on. It's a style, alas, that probably suits me as a reader aloud (though I do truly think some of the pontifications are very good). While reading this alound, I've also been reading to myself the first volume of FMF's "Parade's End" tetralogy, which is called "Some do not..." I think it's excellent, but it's strange and bizarre too, and could be rather more challenging to read aloud than this is, I suspect.

I have now uploaded:
Section 11: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_11_ford_128kb.mp3 (30:16)
Section 12: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_12_ford_128kb.mp3 (24:34)

I enjoyed these two chapters and the gently unfolding events. No agonizing choices in selecting a daughter to become a wife. Or perhaps it had been terrifying for Edward and he was firm about his choice. Read a chapter of "Parade's End" aloud and let me know how it goes.

PL of Sections 11 and 12 is okay.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 27th, 2021, 9:02 pm

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 27th, 2021, 10:40 am
I enjoyed these two chapters and the gently unfolding events. No agonizing choices in selecting a daughter to become a wife. Or perhaps it had been terrifying for Edward and he was firm about his choice. Read a chapter of "Parade's End" aloud and let me know how it goes.

PL of Sections 11 and 12 is okay.

Thank you again, Susanne! All up, it's a pretty terrifying view of the English upper class, and the very peculiar mix of constraints and freedoms under which they operated, that we get here.

I'm definitely going to attempt "Some Do Not..." (first part of the Parade's End tetralogy) next, regardless of its difficulty, and I would certainly welcome your company on the journey, if you're up for it. I do feel I have to warn you that even after The Golden Arrow and this novel, it's a bit startling and strange, but as an example of a quite different kind of modernism from, say, Virginia Woolfe or Joyce, it's really very interesting, I think.

I have now uploaded section 13: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_13_ford_128kb.mp3 (30:35)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 28th, 2021, 9:38 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 27th, 2021, 9:02 pm
Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 27th, 2021, 10:40 am
I enjoyed these two chapters and the gently unfolding events. No agonizing choices in selecting a daughter to become a wife. Or perhaps it had been terrifying for Edward and he was firm about his choice. Read a chapter of "Parade's End" aloud and let me know how it goes.

PL of Sections 11 and 12 is okay.
Thank you again, Susanne! All up, it's a pretty terrifying view of the English upper class, and the very peculiar mix of constraints and freedoms under which they operated, that we get here.

I'm definitely going to attempt "Some Do Not..." (first part of the Parade's End tetralogy) next, regardless of its difficulty, and I would certainly welcome your company on the journey, if you're up for it. I do feel I have to warn you that even after The Golden Arrow and this novel, it's a bit startling and strange, but as an example of a quite different kind of modernism from, say, Virginia Woolfe or Joyce, it's really very interesting, I think.

I have now uploaded section 13: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_13_ford_128kb.mp3 (30:35)

PL of Section 13 is okay.

I'd be delighted to continue this journey with you. I didn't know FMF before and I'm curious about his other novels. We're breezing through this sad tale and I'm learning about life during a very different time. Somehow listening to a book is quite a different experience for me than reading one. As if I'm listening more carefully and don't skip over sentences

I don't mind if the next one is a bit strange or more challenging. Let's do it!

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 29th, 2021, 12:29 am

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 28th, 2021, 9:38 am
I'd be delighted to continue this journey with you. I didn't know FMF before and I'm curious about his other novels. We're breezing through this sad tale and I'm learning about life during a very different time. Somehow listening to a book is quite a different experience for me than reading one. As if I'm listening more carefully and don't skip over sentences I don't mind if the next one is a bit strange or more challenging. Let's do it!

Excellent! I, too, feel I'm learning about a very different time (and society) from my own. And I couldn't agree more about how different it is to be following a book aurally from a normal reading experience. I find I feel much closer to the text, and that's very satisfying.

I've now uploaded section 14: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_14_ford_128kb.mp3 (22:53)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » March 29th, 2021, 9:19 am

TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 29th, 2021, 12:29 am
Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 28th, 2021, 9:38 am
I'd be delighted to continue this journey with you. I didn't know FMF before and I'm curious about his other novels. We're breezing through this sad tale and I'm learning about life during a very different time. Somehow listening to a book is quite a different experience for me than reading one. As if I'm listening more carefully and don't skip over sentences I don't mind if the next one is a bit strange or more challenging. Let's do it!
Excellent! I, too, feel I'm learning about a very different time (and society) from my own. And I couldn't agree more about how different it is to be following a book aurally from a normal reading experience. I find I feel much closer to the text, and that's very satisfying.

I've now uploaded section 14: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_14_ford_128kb.mp3 (22:53)

I liked the opening of this chapter, when he writes about his meandering style....Telling the story to someone in a country cottage.

PL is fine.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 30th, 2021, 4:32 am

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑March 29th, 2021, 9:19 am
I liked the opening of this chapter, when he writes about his meandering style....Telling the story to someone in a country cottage.

Yes! And here I am reading on my Kindle, or listening on my iPhone with my earbuds... but in my heart, I guess, I'm still in that country cottage. It's an image with a lot of powerful associations.

I've now uploaded section 15: https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/goodsoldier_15_ford_128kb.mp3 (35:59).

Will we get to the end before the Easter Bunny arrives? Just have to wait and see...

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » March 30th, 2021, 5:16 am

TriciaG wrote: ↑March 15th, 2021, 5:41 am It's been done once as a group project, but like you said, this would be the first solo version.

I'll set you up!

EDIT: Set up. I removed references to you as translator.

Tricia, this is to let you know that I have just updated the summary description of the novel in the MW. I understand you will need to update a separate database record at some point to reflect this change.