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JoannaHoyt wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 4:27 am I decided to read Victor Hugo's '93 as a solo, as it's a story I've read several times and loved. And I still do love it, but reading it aloud has made me focus on the parts I just used to skim quickly over. I have just recorded an hourlong chapter which has absolutely nothing to do with the novel's plot and which largely consists of a list of prominent/interesting members of the French revolutionary government, often in the form "A, the unreliable friend of B, called C by his enemies, Nemesis of the [date,] who pronounced the epigram "xxxx" upon D upon the occasion of D's quarrel with E..." in which each letter is replaced by a name which I find somewhat challenging to pronounce and I have no idea what happened on that date...

I think in the final summary I'll add a note listing the chapters which could be skipped by someone primarily interested in the story as a story, though they might be of especial interest to a listener who knew the history of the French Revolution well and was interested in Hugo's take on its personalities. (I suppose such a person may catch every time I have guessed a name's pronunciation wrong. Oh well.)

TriciaG wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 7:04 am

Ha ha! There was a chapter in Hunchback (explaining the history and growth of Paris) that I considered a great chapter for someone to record for the Insomnia Collection. Our LV recording of it is 1 hour, 6 minutes long. It sounds like this chapter would be another such candidate!

mightyfelix wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 8:53 am I think I must have been the only person who was actually completely riveted during the sewer chapters.

DyeffersonAz wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 5:19 pm I almost lost a half-hour file because of problems in my cloud sync, as I use the cloud to store my active projects...

maxgal wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 6:12 pm

DyeffersonAz wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 5:19 pm I almost lost a half-hour file because of problems in my cloud sync, as I use the cloud to store my active projects...

Ah yes, the "cloud" ... another perfectly good word, hijacked by geeks.

TriciaG wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 6:25 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 6:12 pm

DyeffersonAz wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 5:19 pm I almost lost a half-hour file because of problems in my cloud sync, as I use the cloud to store my active projects...

Ah yes, the "cloud" ... another perfectly good word, hijacked by geeks.

Nah - geeks hate that word being used for the internet, too. It was hijacked by marketers.

maxgal wrote: ↑January 17th, 2022, 5:30 am

TriciaG wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 6:25 pm

maxgal wrote: ↑January 16th, 2022, 6:12 pm

Ah yes, the "cloud" ... another perfectly good word, hijacked by geeks.

Nah - geeks hate that word being used for the internet, too. It was hijacked by marketers.

I wonder if they like spam. ... spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam...

JoannaHoyt wrote: ↑February 20th, 2022, 7:30 pm ...when you are an alto without Mil Nicholson's vocal talents and you assign a slow growly pseudo-bass voice to an apparently taciturn minor villain, and then several chapters later you realize that he has to yell a longish speech from the top of a tower to an audience on the plain below....