COMPLETE Bambi A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten - rap

laurakgibbs · Post by **laurakgibbs** » February 10th, 2024, 10:03 pm

anneflebari wrote: ↑February 9th, 2024, 7:24 pm Hi Laura, four short chapters for PL thank you, Anne
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_14_salten_128kb.mp3 12m 08s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_15_salten_128kb.mp3 9m 26s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_16_salten_128kb.mp3 7m 45s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_17_salten_128kb.mp3 3m 23s

Oh, this is wonderful: I never would have expected that this book would be full of surprises... but it is! The return of Gobo! But of course things do not bode well for the poor little guy, fool that he is. Whatever dire fate awaits him (and surely it is something dire), I hope it will just at least be quick...
I've marked all these sections PL OK, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next chapters!

anneflebari · Post by **anneflebari** » February 12th, 2024, 7:55 pm

Two more for PL thanks Laura, cheers, Anne
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_18_salten_128kb.mp3 7m 35s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_19_salten_128kb.mp3 9m 26s

laurakgibbs · Post by **laurakgibbs** » February 13th, 2024, 7:25 pm

anneflebari wrote: ↑February 12th, 2024, 7:55 pm Two more for PL thanks Laura, cheers, Anne
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_18_salten_128kb.mp3 7m 35s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_19_salten_128kb.mp3 9m 26s

Oh, alas for poor Gobo! The way Salten set that up perfectly, with Bambi and the old stag talking about him in the preceding chapter... and it's not like the others did not try to warn him! But this time Gobo will not be coming back I'm sure.

I'm guessing Faline will need to have a fawn or two of her own before this is over, so I am waiting to see what happens next with much curiosity! And I'll go mark these both PL OK. Thank you for making the listening so easy!

anneflebari · Post by **anneflebari** » February 15th, 2024, 12:30 am

And two more for PL thanks Laura....he's growing up quickly now:) Anne
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_20_salten_128kb.mp3 14m 43s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_21_salten_128kb.mp3 12m 16s

laurakgibbs · Post by **laurakgibbs** » February 16th, 2024, 8:26 pm

anneflebari wrote: ↑February 15th, 2024, 12:30 am And two more for PL thanks Laura....he's growing up quickly now:) Anne
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_20_salten_128kb.mp3 14m 43s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_21_salten_128kb.mp3 12m 16s

Oh, what a marvelous pair of chapters: the old stag certainly has turned out to be an admirable character! And you also did a beautiful job with the sedge-hen's voice. I really like how Salten makes even the minor characters stand out (like the charming screech-owl last time). I've marked these both PL OK, and I'm excited to see what comes next, but I'll also be sad when this comes to an end. Every chapter has been such a delight!

anneflebari · Post by **anneflebari** » February 19th, 2024, 10:22 pm

Well, here are the last chapters for PL thank you Laura.
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_22_salten_128kb.mp3 9m 11s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_23_salten_128kb.mp3 8m 51s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_24_salten_128kb.mp3 9m 36s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_25_salten_128kb.mp3 4m 28s
This has been one of the most enjoyable yet challenging reads...just about every bird and critter in the forest gets to talk!
I thought the author captured so simply the shades of emotions from joy, sadness and horror to calm acceptance as Bambi matured and I loved how well Salten described the voice and character of the creatures so succinctly.
I"m off on three weeks holiday from SAturday, so apart from any re-doing this is goodbye to Bambi and the forest creatures....thank you Laura and Rapunzelina for joining in this project, hope you had fun! cheers, Anne

anneflebari · Post by **anneflebari** » February 20th, 2024, 3:28 am

AAAH missed old Whittaker Chambers again...this is re upload 4m 31s
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/bambi_25_salten_128kb.mp3

laurakgibbs · Post by **laurakgibbs** » February 20th, 2024, 8:04 pm

Wow, what an amazing book: I love the way the ending was about Bambi remembering back to the beginning of his life, so we got to remember back to the beginning of the book too, and he really has been transformed into the Prince now, step by step, year by year, we saw it happen. And I was so glad that the old stag got to just go off to his resting place, instead of getting shot. (I was so afraid he would get shot.)

Meanwhile, that scene with the fox and the animals' confrontation with the dog was incredible. Your dog-voice was perfect: a combination of barking and baying and speaking. I just cannot say enough good things about your performance: you are exactly the reader that this book needed and deserved, and it has been a total pleasure to listen to. I am sorry it is over, but also very excited for all the people who will get to listen now!!!

So, I marked these final chapters in the MW and now it is the magic 100%. Yay! Congratulations to you on a BRILLIANT job.

.......and if you need someone to DPL for any solo project you do in the future, I would be glad to. I always enjoy prooflistening, and you made this the easiest prooflistening ever.

anneflebari · Post by **anneflebari** » February 20th, 2024, 8:51 pm

Goodness me, going to need a bigger hat! Thank you for such positive feedback Laura, it's difficult to judge your own work, the more I listened the more I wanted to change things...have to know when to stop tinkering

cheers for now, off interstate to see family, Anne

laurakgibbs · Post by **laurakgibbs** » February 20th, 2024, 8:56 pm

Happy travels!

Post by **Rapunzelina** » February 21st, 2024, 1:46 am

Awesome! I'll see to get this into the catalogue now so more people can enjoy

I'll post again when cataloguing is complete unless there's any trouble

Post by **Rapunzelina** » February 21st, 2024, 4:08 am

Cataloguing is complete and all audio files can be found in the catalogue: https://librivox.org/bambi-a-life-in-the-woods-by-felix-salten/

laurakgibbs · Post by **laurakgibbs** » April 29th, 2024, 10:33 am

Not sure if people are still subscribed to this forum, but I wanted to let you know that the Internet Archive blog post finally came out, and they gave me a chance to highlight the BEAUTIFUL job that Anne did with this reading... hopefully it will bring some more listeners to the book!
The blog post at Internet Archive is here:
https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/29/new-audiobook-anthology-highlights-public-domain-folktales-from-1928/

Long story, but I've been doing volunteer bibliography work for Internet Archive for the past several years, and so they were curious to get my perspective as a volunteer at LibriVox, and of course it was just my pleasure to tell them all about it!