Outside of a Dog: Snicket, Lemony: (10) The Slippery Slope (audio)

telophase

telophase wrote on December 15, 2006 at 9:54 AM:

I listened to "The End" via audiobook and while I love TIm Curry's voice, he did Count Olaf enough over-the-top that if I was listening in the car, I couldn't understand his lines. Via the iPod at home, it was understandable, but not incredibly easily.

I am awaiting you finishing it, since then I will have someone to discuss a few things with that would be spoilers otherwise. :D

Kate

Kate wrote on December 15, 2006 at 9:58 AM:

I don't have a problem with Count Olaf's lines, unless Curry goes even more over the top in the last book, but Curry does tend to drop his volume for speech tags after dialogue, which is a little tough sometimes.

He does a really good job with the adult character we meet early in book 11. I was grinning all throughout, aye.

telophase

telophase wrote on December 15, 2006 at 10:45 AM:

I read the others in book form, so I don't know how Curry compares to them. :)

I recently finished listening to Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper: Terrier book. The reader took a while for me to get used to, but was unexceptionable otherwise.

My current (and ongoing) audiobook is Twain's "The Innocents Abroad," which I love in prose, but have discovered it's because I can skim over the Victorian American attitudes towards people of other countries and classes and religions, whereas with the audiobook I have to listen to every single word of it. Being Twain, of course, he skewers everyone, but there's still enough characterization of European peasants and Islamic people as dirty, slow, and slovenly that it's kind of tough to listen to at times.

Kate

Kate wrote on December 15, 2006 at 12:36 PM:

I really like the Full Cast Audio adaptations of Pierce's books, but haven't ventured into the single-narrator ones yet, mostly because I'm not that crazy about the books for which they're available.

Looking forward to reading _Terrier_, though. Oh, dear free time, how I miss you . . .

charlene

charlene wrote on December 15, 2006 at 3:21 PM:

That is my favorite quotation out of all the Series of Unfortunate Events.

Wow, your possible-spoilers are very interesting because I thought almost exactly the opposite after book 10.

I'd strongly recommend reading Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography at this point. There are things in the books that will make... marginally more sense if you read it (including one small mystery in Book 12 that you can solve and the Baudelaires can't because they don't have access to this information).

I'm really interested to see what you think of Book 13. I really liked it, but I could see thinking otherwise.

Kate

Kate wrote on December 16, 2006 at 8:49 AM:

charlene: I'd almost forgotten about the Unauthorized Autobiography, thanks. I'll see if the library has it; I'm about 2/3 of the way through the audiobook of book 11, but I'm not going to listen to it over the weekend when I'm not commuting, so now might be a good time.