[COMPLETE] Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos - kd

Post by **TriciaG** » November 3rd, 2010, 9:30 am

PL OK.

I meant to comment that you do great with the French. I could never have attempted a book like this!

mb · Post by mb » November 3rd, 2010, 8:24 pm

gloriana wrote:Because who doesn't love racism, murder, and genocide?

Not this guy Chrisfield - he sure doesn't not love it, let me tell you.

TriciaG wrote:I meant to comment that you do great with the French. I could never have attempted a book like this!

Thanks! Many people (Francophones especially, but others too, I'm sure) would argue I never should have attempted a book like this! I'm glad it's not too obviously clunky. The Parisians certainly don't sound very Parisian, though, that's for sure. Luckily there's not too much, and I can get by.

And if this file is okay, I think we're done!

I've finally fixed some pauses and a small misread part that I noticed in Section 1, and a little annoying bit of Section 15 (snaky hair read as sneaky) and reuploaded both. I might rewrite the summary a bit tomorrow.

Section 17:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/kd/threesoldiers_17_dospassos.mp3
59:21

mb · Post by mb » November 3rd, 2010, 11:07 pm

I wrote a new (possibly better) summary. Does this seem okay?

mb wrote: Three Soldiers, the second novel by John Dos Passos, follows the experiences of several young Americans thrown into the confusion and brutality of World War I.

Written when the author was just twenty-three, it was key to the development of a realistic depiction of war in American literature, and earned Dos Passos, later named by Jean-Paul Sartre "the greatest living writer of our time", important early attention.

Critic H L Menken said of it: "no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality".

(Summary by mb & Wikipedia)

Post by **KiltedDragon** » November 4th, 2010, 4:13 am

Sounds good to me.

Post by **TriciaG** » November 4th, 2010, 7:00 am

Me, too.

Post by **TriciaG** » November 4th, 2010, 8:59 am

Well, at least he didn't kill himself.

PL OK. Thanks for the experience!

mb · Post by mb » November 4th, 2010, 10:04 am

TriciaG wrote:Well, at least he didn't kill himself.

I know, right?

TriciaG wrote:PL OK. Thanks for the experience!

Thank you for everything, Tricia! So much listening, noting, relistening. To me. And this book. I really appreciate it!

Post by **KiltedDragon** » November 5th, 2010, 6:01 am

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/three-soldiers-by-john-dos-passos/

mb · Post by mb » November 5th, 2010, 7:06 am

Thanks for all your help, Barry!

Everything looks great, except that it uses the old summary. Is it possible to change that to the newer version?

Post by **KiltedDragon** » November 5th, 2010, 7:14 am

Sorry about that. Should be ok now.

mb · Post by mb » November 5th, 2010, 7:41 am

Excellent, thank you!