{"id":130,"date":"2009-10-08T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-10-08T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:52:32","slug":"review-the-white-company-from-librivox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/10\/review-the-white-company-from-librivox\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The White Company from Librivox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Go to Librivox in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/the-white-company-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The White Company<\/em> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a>, an audiobook from Librivox.org.\u00a0 I never read this adventure story set in the middle ages as a boy.\u00a0 In one way, that&#8217;s too bad, because I missed out on a really good story.\u00a0 In another, that&#8217;s good, because being introduced to it by Clive Catterall, who reads this book for Librivox, is wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind the plot summary, go visit the web page for this title, where you&#8217;ll find a summary and pointers to the full text if you&#8217;d rather read it for yourself.\u00a0 I want to talk about this audiobook version.<\/p>\n<p>In short, its great.\u00a0 I listened to it over a couple of weeks while walking the dog.\u00a0 The reader keeps the story moving well, in a clear and easy to understand British accent.\u00a0 Actually, several accents, as he changes voices to suit various characters.\u00a0 Not every character, just the main ones, and he does quite a fine job suiting accent and diction to the character.\u00a0 Its quite helpful to following the dialog and keeping track of everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Librivox.org provides free audiobooks of public domain text.\u00a0 The readings are all done by volunteers, so the quality is a bit unpredictable.\u00a0 This reader, Clive Catterall, in my opinion is well up at the top end of the quality curve.<\/p>\n<p>Combine good reading with a good voice, and a good tale to tell, and you&#8217;ve got hours of pleasurable listening ahead.\u00a0 Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an audiobook from Librivox.org.\u00a0 I never read this adventure story set in the middle ages as a boy.\u00a0 In one way, that&#8217;s too bad, because I missed out on a really good story.\u00a0 In another, that&#8217;s good, because being introduced to it by Clive Catterall, who reads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}